Media
There's a lot of buzz around hyperlocal journalism these days; it's one of those new ways of doing journalism the media industry hopes will help it adapt to the changing world and its changing news habits. Certainly in Scandinavia, it's where many news organisations
Culture
Since I had to leave this year's WAN Congress/ World Editors' forum on Tuesday to cover other events, I do not know how the show progressed from here, but this was by far the most surreal party I have been to for a very long time: It
Media
Apparently web users are getting 'more selfish'; they can't be bothered with all the editorial promotions and content media organisations would like them to spend time on, but 'ruthlessly' cherry pick the articles they're interested in and ignore the rest. I must
Acquisitions
"Did the Norwegians celebrate 17 May by closing the Swedish fool's project Punkt SE? Well, at least the announcement of the closure came on the first working day after Norway's national day, even though the decision had been on the table for a few weeks,
Blogging
I have to confess that I've shamelessly ripped the headline of this post, as well as the first quote, from a post on NRKbeta, but it all serves a larger purpose. You see, NRKbeta brought my attention to this thought-provoking quote from an article by Douglas Adams, which,
Media
The debate about the death of printed newspapers was given a somewhat new slant this week with the candid comments of the newly appointed managing director of Norway's biggest newspaper. During the Nordic Media Days in Bergen, one panelist said Torry Pedersen, editor-in-chief of Schibsted-owned VG.no, the
Media
'I think we need a new journalistic method. It's not the finished articles with a beginning, middle and end that are interesting to comment on.' The words belong to Paal Hivand, who during a forum for online journalism I launched for Journalisten last week (link in
Blogging
Cory Doctorow has 17 excellent tips in Information Week (via Bloggers Blog) on how to get bloggers to write about you – which could be just as useful for news sites. Now, let me first take a moment to say that I've never understood journalists and editors complaining about
Acquisitions
Without doubt my favourite headline last week, but the story behind it was probably not a big hit in the headquarters of Fast Search and Transfer who was served a hefty fine of roughly £100,000 (NOK 1.110.220 kroner) for not informing Oslo Stock Exchange (OSE) about Microsoft&
Media
A former advertising man has chosen a spectacular way to encourage Danish journalists to focus on good news. He has gone to the drastic step of mortgaging his flat in order to pay for a supplement in this week's Journalisten, the trade journal for Danish journalists, where he
Media
Yesterday was a very eventful media day in my part of the world (so eventful I'm still recovering, hence my cramped blogging style). We woke up to news that Mecom had acquired Dagbladet, the Norwegian equivalent of The Mirror. It was rumoured Mecom-boss David Montgomery had ordered the
Media
How do you attract the biggest possible audience online? Schibsted-owned VG's recipe is to give people the diet they had no idea they craved. Norway's public broadcaster, NRK, wants to make it easier for lazy users to take shortcuts. I forgot to link up this piece