Self-Regulation Done Right How Scandinavia’s press councils keep the media accountable (I wrote this for the Columbia Journalism Review, published today here.) * When right-wing militant Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 people in and around bucolic Oslo last July, the story dominated the press in Norway for months. For many of the survivors, and for loved [...]
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Teletext Lives on in Scandinavia The pre-Internet digital news service shuts down in the UK, but survives in Northern Europe (I wrote this for the Columbia Journalism Review, published yesterday here.) * Just about every television in Europe has a “teletext” button. Push the button on your television remote and you’re digitally transported to the early [...]
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Farting Puppets: The Terrific, Bizarre World of Danish Kids’ TV (I published this a while ago on The Awl, but forgot to post it here til now.) A little more than two years ago, Denmark’s absurdly well-funded public-television network DR spun off some of its children’s programming and launched a separate station just for kids. [...]
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