Blogging
Huge topic, and a very topical one as newspaper blogs are popping up all over the place – at least in the UK (I follow UK and Scandinavian media in-depth, as I've got strong ties to both regions, and so far newspaper blogs are more prolific in the the
Media
In an online world where we can all be our own editors, picking and choosing from our favourite blogs, news sites and information outlets, it's not a given that the old media giants consistently will give us the top headlines of the day, or put the stuff we&
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Well, no need to tell Danish journalists. A recent survey indicates they are held in such high esteem by their sources that the latest issue of Danish trade mag Journalisten poses the question: are Danish hacks too polite? 95 per cent of the sources in the survey feel they have
Freesheets
So far, the invasion of new Danish freesheets has not led to more people reading newspapers, if we are to believe a recent survey from Institute for Business Cycle Analysis (Ifka). Most Danes choose to read several free papers, both new (like Dato, 24timer, Nyhedsavisen) and old (Urban, MetroXpress), and
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The disturbing story of the poisoning in London of KGB defector Alexander Litvinenko has been all over the news recently, and so much has been said about it that there's hardly much left to say - except pray that the outcome won't be lethal. Still, this
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In the run-up to this year's parliamentary election, Niklas Svensson was fired from Swedish tabloid Expressen after he had obtained access to the intranet of the country's former governing party, but failed to inform his editors about his 'good luck'. Now the former tabloid
Freesheets
Three months into a newspaper war that has seen the Danes bombarded with freesheets from left, right and centre, MetroXpressen's afternoon edition in Copenhagen throws in the towel (via Börsen, in Danish). The company's afternoon title was launched in August amidst a small avalanche of new
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The Brits seem increasingly reluctant to dish out their hard earned pennies on tabloids, a story that is much the same in Norway: only this weekend Dagbladet announced new cuts due to dwindling print sales. That's only half the story though, what is unique about Dagbladet is that
Blogging
Reuters reports that an Ipsos MORI study has found that Europeans trust blogs (24 per cent) more than television ads (17 per cent) or email marketing (14 per cent). Newspapers were still more trusted than blogs (30 per cent). 52 per cent also said they were persuaded to make a
Blogging
The story of the Swedish blogger who brought down a government minister took an interesting twist last week when Expressen, the tabloid who ran the story as its exclusive scoop a day after the blogger had published his story, restated that it was indeed the newspaper, and not the blogger,
Freesheets
Edda Media (the new name for Mecom's Norwegian newspaper portfolio) is up in arms over a government proposal that will put door-to-door distributed freesheets on par with unsolicited advertisement. The media company has 13 local freesheets in the Greater Oslo area. If the proposed revision of Norway'
Media
Amidst all the talk of how blogging is changing the way a story is reported, and how in this brave new media world personality, rather than the elusive quest for neutrality, seems key to building an audience, it is easy to forget that media impartiality wasn't always the