Kristine Lowe: Iceland’s ‘most hated man’ appointed newspaper editor
September 30th, 2009Posted by Judith Townend in Editors' pick, Newspapers, Press freedom and ethics
The news is now a few days old, but Kristine Lowe’s blog post on the appointment of Davíd Oddsson – Iceland’s longest serving prime minister and former head of the Central Bank – as editor of daily paper Morgunbladid, is worth a read. Not least for her photograph showing how Icelandic protesters felt about Oddsson back in December.
Icelandic Review story at this link…
Can we think of a hypothetical comparison for the UK? Mandelson to edit the Times?
Alistair Campbell to edit the New Statesman? (Ed: we said hypothetical…)
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