Media
As more and more people get their news online, newspapers in this country have flooded the market with all kinds of featurey magazines, mostly included with the various editions of the papers, to impress upon their readers the added value of print over internet. Ironically, the success of online media
Media
My favourite biotechnology expert, blogger-journalist and friend Lene, has finally started blogging from St. Louis again: a city stuck in the US bible belt, but also home to a number of big biotech companies and research institutes, and as such a potent battleground for the future of new science. More
Media
In today's interview with Dagens Nyheter, Per Jodenius says he was ordered to give Expressen's reporter, Niklas Svensson, the log-in details to the Social Democrats' intranet so Svensson could dig up dirt on Sweden's governing party. The Liberal party activist, who was expelled
Acquisitions
How convenient that I didn't start writing about this proposed merger before it hit the final stages: if I had I'd be on part xxx. The only firm decision reached yesterday was that Adresseavisa, as expected, opted out of the merger. The other parties will continue
Media
Expressen's reporter Niklas Svensson, who was suspended for accessing the intranet of Sweden's governing party, says he didn't notify his superiors about his actions because he was 'protecting a source'. Full interview here (in Swedish).
Current Affairs
A reporter has been suspended from Swedish tabloid Expressen after it was revealed that a Liberal Party activist who obtained access to the governing party's computer network had passed the log-in information on to him. This gave political reporter Niklas Svensson ample opportunity to study the Social Democrats&
Media
Norway's culture minister is worried it will reduce newspaper diversity and harm local democracy. The newspaper's employees are worried about job cuts resulting from 'synergy effects'. No, we're not talking about David Montgomery or another foreigner and/or venture capitalist buying into
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.
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
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