Current Affairs
- Don’t let Anders Behring Breivik become an excuse to encroach on human rights, said Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Since the twin terror attacks on Utöya and Oslo 22/7 last year, Norway has seen demands to censor and monitor web communications grow stronger as people have looked for ways
Media
The short answer? Be agile and well-managed. Here’s how. Of course, I don’t have all the answers. Not by far. But this month’s report by Pew Research Centre’s Project for Excellence in Journalism on the efforts and failings of newspapers to grow their digital businesses had
Journalism
The bad thing about changing deeply set habits and patterns of reactions? It may make you realise how unsustainable your lifestyle has been. In 2011, I chose one of the hardest new year resolutions ever – to change deeply set patterns of behaviour and reactions – and for the most part I
Freesheets
In December 2008, angry protesters branded both Geir Haarde, Iceland’s then prime minister, and David Oddsson, then head of the country’s central bank, as «Iceland’s bin Laden» - blaming them in equal parts for the country’s complete financial meltdown (see my photos below). Now, the former
Media
If paying would be as easy as across various devices as with iTunes, would readers feel more inclined to pay for editorial content and classifieds? Apple has introduced a new standard for paying for content, which makes most other payment solutions look unnecessarily complicated in comparison. The media’s dream
Journalism
Amid a flurry of privacy breaches and proposed spy laws, has storing your contact book in a digital format simply become untenable if you have sources you desperatly need to protect? This question has been on my mind repeatedly over the last two weeks, following news about new spy laws
Journalism
Crisis reporting is set to become integral part of a three year bachelor degree in journalism, if plans to revise the degree’s curriculum go ahead. - Today you can go through a three years journalism degree without receiving any training in how to cover terror and catastrophes, Trond Idaas,
Web/Tech
"I think we’re beginning to see the fragmentation of the Internet into numerous state-controlled intranets." The words belong to author and investigative journalist Misha Glenny whom I interviewed about his new book, «Dark Market: Cyberthieves, Cybercops and You», when he was in Oslo to talk at an
Web/Tech
I have so much I want to blog about from last year and for this, but I guess I'm suffering from a bit of a blogger's block. In the meantime, here's wishing you all a happy and prosperous new year and a link to
Current Affairs
What do these terrorists have in common? The have all been diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenics. The psychiatrists tasked with determining the mental state of Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik today declared him to be criminally insane. According to their evaluation, the terrorist who killed 77 people in Norway this summer
Journalism
You have to wonder at the state of our industry when the story about how a newspaper just employed a 57-year-old news reporter made headline news yesterday. And no, I'm not thinking that the news site E24.no was wrong to run it, which it did under the
Current Affairs
"Yes, yes, I understand perfectly: the global meltdown," said a British journalist I interviewed on Thursday when I told him the day was a busy news day so the story might run later. "No, it's about the catalogue of errors made on 22/7, revealed