Current Affairs
The headline "Sweden's Watergate" was smeared all over Aftonbladet's frontpage 11 May 1976, four months before the election, after someone had broken into the government's offices. Now history repeats itself, but with a modern slant: why bother to go to all the
Blogging
According the Swedish company behind the new site bubblare.no, it's a site for Norwegians who don't get the attention they feel they deserve among the stiff competition from English language videos on YouTube. It's modelled on a Swedish sister site, which in the
Current Affairs
At least that's what Sweden's Social Democrats must be hoping. Calling a press conference at 23:30 Sunday evening is pretty unheard of, but then the news that the party were about to sue The Liberal Party (FP) for spying on their campaign by obtaining access
Media
How do you land the ultimate scoop? Many a journalist would love the recipe for that, and these 50 strategies for increasing luck, devised by Tom Peters, might just get you there. For one, it's a reminder to all journalists not to end up talking to the same
Blogging
Social media is changing the way we communicate, the way we think about the world, what we expect from it and ultimately the world itself. Most people in the media business now realise that, to use an old cliché, the world as we know it is disappearing before our eyes.
Current Affairs
The tsunami that devastated Thailand 26 December 2004 has claimed another victim. This time in faraway Sweden. Where was Prime Minister Persson's closest aide, undersecretary Lars Danielsson, when the news of the tsunami broke? This has been one of the biggest political issues in Sweden for months. Before
Media
Norway's three most profitable media companies are all online. If we look at printed papers the top ten performers are mostly local, interspersed with the odd regional paper. Undercurrent reports that "an overview of the finances of Norwegian media companies pieced together by Dagens Medier confirms the
Blogging
I'm truly fascinated by all the new terms social media bring about. Once a celebrity's greatest fear was the paparazzi, now they also have to be on the lookout for blogarazzi. And bloggers have to beware not to 'blog out', which according to Wayne
Travel
Spanish scientists have found that long holidays are bad for you. They can cause a post-holiday syndrome which sounds rather like a powerful post-lunch dip but doesn't only make you tired, it brings on depression and anxiety as well. The findings might shed new light on why Norwegians
Media
I was heartened to see the debate about media's missing links over at Wordblog. The lack of links in newspaper articles is something that annoys me constantly, especially in stories based on statistics, where I find myself wondering what the sample was or if they were measuring the
Media
Ever fretted over typos and messy page layouts in newspapers? Readers of Norwegian regional newspaper Drammens Tidende (DT) now know who to blame. As of Monday this week, sub-editors and designers get their bylines at the bottom of the pages they have worked on. DT’s production editor, Svein Helge
Media
There's something reassuring about an editor who starts his tenure by identifying what the newspaper he is to edit needs to improve on. The biggest problem Dagens Nyheter (DN), Sweden's largest subscription based newspaper, has to face up to is that it is "too slow&