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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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Monday News Edit: What Are Icelanders Talking About?
Another week, another Monday. While the weekend was meteorologically quiet, it was not void of interesting events that kept us tied to our phone screens as if under a spell. Besides a particularly lively couple of days in Grimsey, where the population has…
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Sixth Time Authorities Guilty Of Violating Press Freedom
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled yesterday that Icelandic authorities had violated Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which provides freedom of expression and information, when in 2012 the high court found newspaper DV guilty of libel.…
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Do You Read Me?—Inequality In The Intellectual World
Summer 2013. The cover of the British magazine Port declares that a new golden age in print media is underway. The magazine’s cover is minimalist—black letters spelling out the names of six editors at the largest cultural publications in the Western world.…
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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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Information Without Borders?
The info-wars have begun, and Iceland is begging to be the legislative battleground. In the wake of the international controversy made mainstream in part thanks to WikiLeaks’ highly-publicized and continued release of leaked documents from around the world, Iceland remains curiously relevant…