Wednesday, 26 March 2008, 15:31
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VG Online editor Torry Pedersen: “Print and online are different disciplines and will only become more different. Until now, we have been so fortunate as to be able to develop on our own and build our own culture.”
Monday, 24 December 2007, 10:42
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The newspapers "all said they had no evidence to suggest it created more traffic to their respective news sites, but it created more loyal users and was a way of connecting with the blogosphere"
Monday, 19 November 2007, 09:45
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"And here is one key pillar of Mecom’s European strategy: the notion that all journalists have to be able to work across different media. … This idea may be old hat to Brits but it is a big step in Germany, where two of the biggest newspapers … still
Tuesday, 2 October 2007, 12:46
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"In Norway, the best paid newspaper delivery folks at Aftenposten, earn about £65 – 75K – that’s much more than your average journalist in this country."
Wednesday, 22 August 2007, 10:20
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"FT.com’s interactive feature maps the estimated 233bn barrels of oil equivalent, and illustrates the region with a picture slideshow and audio narration by experts."
Tuesday, 22 May 2007, 07:53
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"The Norwegian Press Union says it’s sceptical to the way Norwegian journalists are exposing their relationships to their sources by befriending them on Facebook … "
Google News Norway removes thumbnails
Saturday, 9 December 2006, 21:04
Poynter’s E-media Tidbits is reporting that Google has bowed to the Norwegian media businesses’ association, Mediebedriftenes Landsforening, in the latest copyright row involving Google News.
It appears that Google has only removed thumbnail images originating from media organisations that are members of MBL.
Brits’ trips to Saint Nick’s irk Norway
Saturday, 26 November 2005, 12:01
British tourists’s flying to Lappland to visit Santa for Christmas are causing the traditional annual headache for air traffic controllers in Norway, Der Spiegel reports.
On the last two Saturdays before Christmas alone, 64 flights are scheduled to fly between Britain and northern Finnland. These flights all crowd over southern Norway, prompting the Norwegean civil aviation authority to add two additional air traffic contollers to each shift.
According to the Associated Press, 600,000 people visit Rovaniemi, Finland, each year with about 250 charter flights to the village in December alone.
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