I am writing my masters’ thesis. If you can point me towards important sources, articles, research or contacts then it would be greatly appreciated. It is on the three big ratings agencies and their assessment of the Icelandic banks in the period from 2002 – 2008. 1. How did the leading credit ratings agencies rate the [...]

Gudbjorg Matthiasdottir must surely be the economic crisis’ ultimate winner. She displayed astute business sense by selling off her 1.71% share in Glitnir worth 3.5 billion ISK on the last day before it collapsed. She then partnered with a few other fishing magnates to buy the financial wreck that was Morgunbladid, after a 4 billion [...]

Open office spaces used to be all the rage in the last few years but now the editor in chief’s at Morgunbladid are reversing the trend. Whereas Olafur Stephensen and his predecessor Styrmir Gunnarsson did not have their own private office, carpenters have been hard at work building a “cage” for the new editors. What [...]

During his 13-year rule as prime minister, Mr Oddsson oversaw the privatisation of Iceland’s three banks that collapsed last October. He was listed among TIME magazine’s choice of 25 people to blame for the financial crisis. However, the owners of the broadsheet daily Morgunbladid made the decision to appoint him as co-editor, despite reservations among [...]

The spin had to begin already. Reykjavik City councilman Gisli Marteinn Baldursson of the Independence Party, whose idol has now been made Morgunbladid’s editor describes how he decided to call the subscription department to get the paper. He claims the lady on the other end of the phone told him that there had been more [...]

David Oddson’s ascent to the editorial position of Morgunbladid has shaken the nation. It might be hard for you to understand if you’re not from here but he is one of the most manipulative politicians in a democratic society ever. Imagine if Margaret Thatcher had been the mayor of London, Prime Minister, Foreign Minister and [...]

I always questioned the motives behind the media laws that were proposed by David Oddson and the Independence Party in 2004. But then again, I have never understood those who claim that there is such a concept as a “free press”. Any media must in reality somehow reflect its owners, not just in how it [...]

Bloody hell. I knew the name of my website would be apt, but even my lowest hopes for how things would turn out are being shattered. Icelanders apparantly can dig deeper than anyone ever could imagine. How on earth are you going to shove this down your throat!?! David Oddson as editor in chief of [...]

It has been interesting to watch the development of the three daily newspapers in Iceland in the past year. Morgunbladid was one of the victims of Bjorgolfur Gudmundsson’s fatal business-eating disease and has had its ups and downs. At its best when analyzing what is behind the numbers Icelanders are facing, be it IceSave or [...]