Press Coverage
From IMMI
2012
- It's Rainmaking Time: 14/02/12 New Hope for the World Interview w Birgitta Jónsdóttir
- IMMI: 18/01/12 Status of the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative
- Thom Hartmann: 09/01/12 LIVE from Reykjavik, Iceland w Birgitta Jónsdóttir.
2011
- RVK Grapevine: 07/11/11 AN ICELANDIC MODERN MEDIA INFERNO
- Huffington Post: 27/10/11 "Free Speech" Not So Free
- Future Challenges: 01/10/11 Birgitta Jónsdóttir interview during Open Government Camp in Berlin talking about IMMI, banking, and social media.
- UNHCR/Freedom House: 23/09/11 Freedom of the Press 2011 - Iceland
- Kapittel: 22/09/11 (video): Birgitta Jónsdóttir speaks about Freedom of Information and IMMI. - text
- Natali Lekka 15/09/11: Birgitta Jónsdóttir talks about poetry, freedom of online information and her work with the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative
- Nordic Techpolitics 2011 02/09/11 (video): Birgitta Jonsdottir - Legalizing Freedom of Information
- Camp Chaos 2011: 14/08/11 Birgitta Jónsdóttir - IMMI (video)
- Ecrans: 15/07/11 Create a sanctuary of journalism in Iceland
- Investment Watch: 08/07/11 Iceland wants to punish bankers responsible for crisis
- Mediadem: 06/07/11 ‘Media policies & regulation for media freedom & independence'
- UNHCR - 03/07/11 - UN Refugee Agency Freedom in the World 2011 - Iceland
- Idea City 17/06/11 Birgitta Jonsdottir - 2011 Idea City presentation
- YouTube: 08/06/11 Internet Freedom: Interview with Iceland MP Birgitta Jonsdottir
- YouTube: 28/05/11 International Modern Media Initiative - Introduction
- YouTube: 16/05/11 Smári McCarthy - IMMI as an interface between the Internet and the State
- YouTube: 05/05/11 Smári speaks at the European Parliament about IMMI
- USTREAM: 03/05/11 Press Freedom Lecture by Birgitta Jónsdóttir / Q&A after
- New Europe: 25/04/11 Iceland aims to become safe haven for journalists and data
- Smári McCarthy: 22/04/11 On media law and bad Directives / English
- YouTube: 21/04/11 Birgitta Jónsdóttir speaks about IMMI
- VIMEO: 06/04/11 Smári McCarthy (IMMI): Rethinking the protection of free speech
- LA Times: 04/02/11 Iceland seeks to become sanctuary for free speech
- Reykjavík Grapevine: 10/02/11 Information Without Borders?
2010
- CCT-TV: IMMI, from concept to reality - our need for a well-regulated flow of information
- Al Jazeera: The Listening Post
- New York Times: A Vision of Iceland as a Haven for Journalists
- BBC News: Wikileaks and Iceland MPs propose 'journalism haven'
- The Guardian: Iceland plans future as global haven for freedom of speech
- The Spectator: Could Iceland really become an "Information Haven"?
- The Guardian: Iceland aims to become haven for investigative journalism
- Huffington Post (blog): Iceland Aims To Become Offshore Haven For Journalists
- The Guardian: WikiLeaks editor: why I'm excited about Iceland's plans for journalism
- Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard: Iceland aims to become an offshore haven for journalists and leakers
- NPR: Could Iceland's Financial Meltdown Create The World's First Free Speech State?
- YouTube: The Icelandic Modern Media Initiative-Professor Salvör Gissurardóttir 1
- TAZ.de: Die Schweiz der Bits (German)
- Tages Anzeiger: Island will Pressefreiheit zum Standortvorteil machen
- UPI.com: Iceland may become investigative haven
- editorsweblog.org (blog): Iceland as a "journalism haven"?
- BBC News: Iceland's journalism freedom dream prompted by Wikileaks
- The Right Perspective (blog): Iceland To Become “Journalist Haven”?
- Big Think: Can Journalism Save Iceland?
- GigaOm (blog): Iceland Looks to Create Information Haven
- IDG: Icelanders hope to host controversial data from around world
- Journalism.co.uk (blog): BBC News: Wikileaks and Icelandic MPs propose 'haven' for investigative journalism
- The Hindu: Plan for global freedom of speech centre
- Anorak.co.uk (satire):
Iceland And Wikileaks Create The Icelandic Freedom of Expression Award To Abolish Libel Laws - The Inquisitr: Iceland looking to become the Switzerland for the digital world
- World Association of Newspapers: Iceland as a 'Journalism Haven'
- La Quadrature du Net: L'Islande deviendrait un modèle pour la liberté de communication [French]
- Mbl.is: Gósenland upplýsingafrelsis [Icelandic]
- Slashdot: Your Rights Online: Iceland MPs Propose Journalism Haven
- IDG: Icelanders hope to host controversial data from around world
- Harvard Nieman Journalism Lab: Iceland aims to become an offshore haven for journalists and leakers
- Computer World Denmark: Island skal huse kontroversielle data fra hele verden [Danish]