DV (newspaper)

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DV
DV logo.png
description Icelandic weekly newspaper
publishing company Frjáls fjölmiðlun ehf.
First edition November 26, 1981
Frequency of publication weekly
Editor-in-chief Lilja Katrín Gunnarsdóttir
editor Karl Gardarsson
Web link www.dv.is

DV (of Dagblaðið & Vísir , then DV ) is an Icelandic tabloid in tabloid format, originally as daily newspaper appeared. After various changes in the frequency of publication, it will appear weekly as of 2019 .

history

The newspaper was created in 1981 as Dagblaðið & Vísir through the merger of the 1910 founded newspaper Vísir , the oldest daily newspaper in Iceland, and Dagblaðið, founded in 1975 after a conflict over the political orientation of Vísir .

In the past, DV fueled the public debate in Iceland with an aggressive editorial policy. For example, the full names, addresses and pictures of criminal suspects who had not yet been convicted were often published. DV defended itself by stating that the public had a right to publish this data.

In January 2006, the coverage of a former primary school teacher came into the public eye. He had allegedly sexually abused at least two boys in his hometown Ísafjörður . On the day the first report was published in DV, the accused committed suicide. In his farewell letter, he declared that he could not bear the pressure generated by the reporting. As a result, the public pressure on the newspaper to make such reports more sensitive in the future increased. An online petition was signed by 30,000 people (around 10% of the Icelandic population). Several editors lost their jobs. In direct response to this, laws protecting against defamation in the media were tightened. In the future, media companies will have to pay high sums of damages in such a case ( known as punitive damages in the Anglo-American legal system ).

From 2008 DV belonged to the media company Birtingur , which in turn was part of the Baugur Group . In 2010 the newspaper was bought by a group of investors around the art dealer Lilja Skaftadóttir and DV editor-in-chief Reynir Traustsson, who wanted to turn the tabloid into an independent alternative in the Icelandic newspaper market. The new owners had stipulated that no shareholder, regardless of their stake, could have more than 26% of the votes, and introduced a clearer distinction between management and editorial staff. After a conflict among the shareholders, the publishing company Vefpressan , which operated the pressan.is portal , took over the newspaper at the end of 2014 . The new editor was Björn Ingi Hrafnsson. In September 2017 the newspaper was taken over by Frjáls fjölmiðlun ("Free Media") with Karl Garðarsson as managing director.

On April 28, 2006 it was announced that DV would in future only be published on weekends, as daily edition was economically unprofitable. As of the end of July 2010, the newspaper appeared three times a week, later weekly again.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The first edition of Dagblaðið & Vísir continues the year count as the 7th year of Dagblaðið and the 71st year of Vísir and was published as no. 262 of the year after the number counting of Vísir .
  2. ↑ Dagblaðið og Vísir verða eitt: Sameinað og stærra blað á markaðinn . In: Dagblaðið & Vísir . No. 262 , November 26, 1981, pp. 1 (Icelandic, timarit.is ).
  3. ↑ a b c Um DV ( Icelandic ) DV. Retrieved November 17, 2019.
  4. ↑ Suicide sparks outrage ( English ) In: Iceland Review . January 12, 2006. Retrieved November 17, 2019.
  5. ^ A b Daniela Zinser: Iceland's media landscape: Zombies and a rescuer . In: taz.de . July 30, 2010. Retrieved November 17, 2019.
  6. ↑ a b Iceland’s DV newspaper sold ( English ) In: IceNews . March 20, 2010. Retrieved November 17, 2019.
  7. ↑ Haukur Már Helgason: Pressan Acquires Newspaper DV ( English ) In: The Reykjavík Grapevine . November 21, 2014. Retrieved November 17, 2019.

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