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Majority Of Ad Revenue Goes To Foreign Media
Advertisement purchases by Icelandic companies have doubled since 2009, with 51 percent of all adverts being placed in foreign media platforms, according to new data by Statistics Iceland (Hagstofan). Revenue gained by foreign platforms from Icelandic advertisements have grown approximately 26 times…
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Women Of Iceland’s #MeToo Movement Release Statement, Implores Media To Use Caution
The women of Iceland’s #MeToo movement have released a joint statement to remind the general public of what the movement’s purpose is, in light of recent events in the public discussion, and to remind the media of their responsibilities when it comes…
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April Fool’s In Iceland: Fast Becoming Outdated, If It Isn’t Already
If you’re reading the news online on April 1, your defences are probably way up; reading stories with a critical eye and assuming any story that is not obviously true might in fact be a joke. This is going to be the…
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Lawyer For Former Sigur Rós Drummer Issues Demand To Cease Coverage Of Sexual Assault Allegations
A lawyer for Orri Páll Dýrason, the former drummer for Sigur Rós who quit the band in the wake of sexual assault allegations against him, issued a letter to the editorial board of Stundin magazine demanding they engage in no further reporting…
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Iceland Keeps Losing Ground In World Press Freedom Index
Iceland is not amongst the top ten countries praised for freedom of the press anymore, says International organisation Reporters Without Borders. According to their 2018 report, in fact, Iceland fell from 10th to 13th place on the list, below countries like Estonia,…
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District Court Lifts Injunction On Stundin
The injunction on media outlets Stundin and Reykjavík Media issued by the Reykjavík District Commissioner in October 2017 has been lifted today by the local District Court. As we recently wrote, Stundin was ordered to cease any reporting on former Prime Minister…
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Independence Party’s Privileged Relationship With Icelandic Media: At What Cost?
The past few years have been complicated for the International press. As the choke on media and freedom of the press is tightened all over the world, the present looks grimmer than ever. The U-turn taken by governments and powerful individuals when…
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The Murder of Birna Brjánsdóttir: The Case That Gripped Iceland, And The World
Last month, a young woman who was last seen walking down Laugavegur early one Saturday morning disappeared without a trace. CCTV footage of her last known whereabouts depict a scene familiar to all Icelanders: she was walking downtown eating take-out after an…
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Icelandic Media “Has No Policy Or Purpose”, Says Finance Minister
Minister of Finance and Independence Party chairperson Bjarni Benediktsson had some choice words to share regarding his opinion of the Icelandic media. In a lengthy post made on Facebook, Bjarni took issue with an opinion piece in the newspaper Fréttablaðið which expressed…
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Pity The Poor Bankers Who Ruined Us All
Last night, Icelanders were treated to a group interview on television station Stöð 2 with three of the Kaupthing bankers whose actions were instrumental in bringing down the Icelandic economy in 2008, and are all currently doing time in the Kvíabryggja minimum…
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Police Chief Demands Media Silence On Sexual Assaults
The Westman Islands’ police chief has called upon all responders and festival staff to remain silent to the media on any reported sexual assaults at this weekend’s Merchants’ Holiday festival. The Journalists’ Union criticised the order as “an attempt to silence”. Vísir…
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Papers Will Continue After Acquisition
The newspapers recently acquired by Vefpressan will keep coming, but one editor was very blunt about his feelings on working for the company. All eleven papers published by Fótspor ehf, which was bought out by media conglomerate Vefpressan ehf., will continue to…
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Anna’s Editorial: Our Prime Minister Eating Things
The average Icelander probably doesn’t find parliamentary debates all that exciting. This week, however, they’ve been all the buzz. Why is that? Because our prime minister, the esteemed Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, left the parliament floor in the middle of debates—to grab the…
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SABOTAGE: The State Of Iceland’s Media – Haukur & Anna’s 1st Editorial
There are two daily newspapers published in Iceland. Each is owned and operated by a powerful interest group. — To grossly simplify an already gross affair: Fréttablaðið is the domain of the remnants of the once dominant Baugur empire of one Jón…
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Facebook Does Not Want To #FreeTheNipple, Bans Reykjavík Grapevine
UPDATE [01:20] The ban has been lifted! Grapevine articles are back on SkyNet. Thank all of you who RT’d and reported so much! Yesterday was a big day for social media in Iceland, as local feminist activists took to Twitter and started…
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Media Blackout Seems Largely Successful
No proactive, investigative reporting seems to currently take place in any Icelandic media. There’s a lot of handball, some success stories, cancer stories and remembrance of natural catastrophes. Most media also duly cover news releases sent their way, as well as police…
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One More Top Journalist Leaves DV
Investigative journalist Ingi Freyr Vilhjálmsson has resigned from DV, according to Kjarninn. The report came late Sunday. As of yet, Ingi Freyr has not publicly explained the reasons for his resignation, which was first reported late Sunday. Numerous journalists have resigned from…
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DV’s Editor-In-Chief Replaced —Again
Hallgrímur Thorsteinsson has been discharged as DV’s editor-in-chief. Journalist and literary critic Kolbrún Bergþórsdóttir and TV-anchor-cum-PR-manager Eggert Skúlason have been hired in Hallgrímur’s place. Hörður Ægisson will be its business editor. All three will co-edit DV’s web medium, dv.is. Publication will be…
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Björn Ingi Hrafnsson Becomes Chair Of DV’s Board
DV stockholders’ meeting, held this Wednesday, voted for Björn Ingi Hrafnsson as the Chair of DV’s board. This was reported by Kjarninn. Media under Björn Ingi’s control have, so far, been based on very different editorial policies than DV’s critical and investigative…
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Icelanders’ Trust In Media Shrinking
Trust in almost all of Iceland’s news media has fallen over the last year, except for DV, reports RÚV. According to a new report by MMR, of all the Icelandic language news media surveyed (yours truly, The Reykjavík Grapevine was not included…
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Reporters Without Borders Regret Decline Of Press Freedom In Iceland
On Wednesday, the organization Reporters Without Borders (RWB) issued a statement expressing its concerns with the perceived decline of freedom of information in Iceland during the last two years. Among matters of particular concern, the organization says it regrets that the Interior…
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Day Of Memo Leak, Minister’s Assistant Called Police Chief Twice
Three telephone calls took place between Gísli Freyr Valdórsson, the Minister of the Interior’s assistant at the time, and Sigríður Björk Guðjónsdóttir, then Police Chief of Suðurnes, now Police Chief of Reykjavík, the day on which the former leaked the Ministry documents…
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Poll Results: People Trust Police and University
In a recent poll, conducted by Market and Media Research (MMR), measuring public trust towards key institutions, most people were found to trust the Police, whereas most people distrusted the bank system. 81.3 percent said they trusted they trusted the Police “a…