Meet Viktoria Sundqvist

Viktoria Sundqvist is the director of journalism outreach for Hearst Connecticut Media. She works out of the New Haven Register office in New Haven.

She has worked as assistant managing editor at the New Haven Register, executive producer, breaking news editor, managing editor of central Connecticut with oversight of The Register Citizen and The Middletown Press newsrooms, investigations editor at The Middletown Press and The Register Citizen, editor of The Middletown Press and Sunday/Features editor at The Register Citizen. 

She recently helped publish an in-depth nationwide investigation on Boys & Girls Clubs and sexual abuse and has investigated Connecticut police departments and their responsiveness to open records laws. 

Viktoria has a master’s degree in journalism from Quinnipiac University, where she also earned her undergraduate degree in communications and was the editor of the school’s weekly student-run newspaper, The Chronicle.

A native of Sweden, she came to the U.S. as an au pair in 1998, having already studied mass media in high school at a vocational technical-type program where she earned hands-on experience in writing newspaper articles, requesting public documents, producing talk-radio shows, film editing, photography and graphic design. She became a U.S. citizen in 2019.