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Norway’s press complaints commission PFU (Pressens Faglige Utvalg) ruled both for and against a local magazine on Tuesday, after palace officials had complained on behalf of the royal family over its publication of photos the royals claimed were invasive. PFU claimed Se og Hør violated some press standards, but also claimed that the royals must expect [...]
The head of Telenor Norge AS, the domestic division of huge Norwegian telecoms firm Telenor, is hoping for a summer free of online bullying and threats after a new law took effect that makes such digital activity a crime. Berit Svendsen, managing director of Telenor Norge, wrote in a commentary in newspaper Aftenposten on Saturday [...]
Lengthy negotiations to sell the Oslo-based newspaper Dagbladet and its related media units to Aller Media of Denmark culminated with a deal on Thursday. Dagbladet employees seemed mostly relieved, calling the deal “a good match” that will create one of Norway’s largest media concerns. Aller Media is a major magazine publisher in Denmark and also [...]
Newspaper Dagens Næringsliv (DN), which specializes in business news but covers a broad range of other news as well, has made a clean sweep of all the top prizes in journalism handed out in Norway this year. The achievement comes at a time when newspapers are struggling and competition is fierce. The latest annual award, [...]
Oslo-based newspaper Dagsavisen is planning a daily special print edition for the city of Drammen and the large Buskerud County, challenging a near-monopoly held by Drammens Tidende since its competitor folded more than a decade ago. Dagsavisen has even acquired the name of that old competitor, Fremtiden (The Future), and is targeting readers and advertisers [...]
Norway’s third-largest newspaper, Dagbladet, and its website dagbladet.no have been the subjects of sales negotiations this week but Dagbladet’s seller and prospective buyer, Aller Media of Denmark, reportedly can’t agree on a price. Newspaper Dagens Næringsliv (DN), in which Dagbladet’s owner also has a stake, reported that Aller Media is Dagbladet’s most likely buyer and [...]
Officials at the Royal Palace in Oslo insist neither they nor the royal family themselves are trying to control media coverage, but they’re not backing down on their formal complaint against celebrity magazine “Se og Hør.” The palace has now filed a rebuttal to the magazine’s defense of its own coverage, calling it a “grave [...]
Norway’s national journalists’ union NJ (Norsk Journalistlag) has threatened to call a strike from Saturday after its negotiators failed to reach agreement with the media employers’ organization Mediebedriftenes Landsforening (MBL). TV2 and newspaper Dagens Næringsliv (DN) are among media outlets where journalists and other NJ members may be ordered to walk off the job. The [...]
Norway’s royal family has filed what’s being called an “historic” complaint against Norwegian magazine Se og Hør, in an effort to clarify whether the magazine violated “good press standards” and invaded the family’s privacy. It’s the first time the royal family collectively has filed a formal complaint over how they’ve been treated in the press. [...]
Thor Gjermund Eriksen was ceremoniously handed a symbolic oversized key to his new office as chief of Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) on Monday and had a busy first day on the job, one of the most powerful in Norway. As he made the rounds of media interviews and met the NRK troops, he admitted he faced [...]
