Dagens Nyheter censors article about Peter Borgström

Journalist Oivvio Polite today wrote a story about Bloggforum that took place on Monday night. It was published in Dagens Nyheter’s culture section, the very one that Peter Borgström wrote for. He was critized earlier this year by Stockholm Spectator for plagiarizing articles from the New York Times.

When Polite wrote his article, it contained a sentence about Borgström, but DN deleted that sentence without informing Polite. The sentence is in the middle of the article, so it cannot have been taken off because of lack of space.

His original text, published on his own webpage:

“What have for example all non-blogging journalist got to hide? A lot, if you should believe the blogger that revealed that DN journalist Peter Borgström had been borrowing a bit too much from the New York Times.

In Swedish:

“Vad har till exempel alla ickebloggande journalister att dölja? En hel, om man skall tro bloggaren som avslöjade att DN-journalisten Peter Borgström lånat lite väl flitigt ur New York Times.

The last sentence, in italics, had been erased by DN. The entire article is available on Polite’s webpage in Swedish.

Link via Gustav Holmberg.

UPDATE: DN answers to critisism in Journalisten.

Lobbyist of the year

Ann-Therése Enarsson, secretary-general for A Non Smoking Generation was named Lobbyist of the Year 2004 at an award ceremony on Wednesday night for her passionate work that resulted in a new law which bans smoking in Swedish restaurants. The new law will come into effect on June 1, 2005.

On Thursday, the Swedish journalist awards were presented. Winners were:

Story teller of the year:

Susen Schultz, Svenska Dagbladet, News and feature graphics

Innovator of the year:

Marcos Hellberg, Jonas Franksson and Olle Palmlöf, SVT Väst, “CP-Magasinet”

Revelation of the year:

Katarina Karlsson, Norrbottens-Kuriren, About how Slovakian workers were used by SSAB, forcing them to work under dangerous conditions and for low wages.

Lukas Bonnier’s Grand Journalist Prize:

Kerstin Brunnberg, Swedish Radio

…and now that bloggers more or less officially have gotten the status as influcencers of public opinion, who will take the initiative to name “Blogger of the Year”?

Swedish science mag launches group blog

I overheard this during Bloggforum on Monday evening and via Erik Stattin I found the link. Swedish science and technology magazine Forskning & Framsteg has started a group blog. Among the 12 bloggers there are 7 journalists from Forskning & Framsteg, one journalist from electronics magazine Elektroniktidningen, one associate professor in psychology from Stockholm University, one linguistic researcher from Swedish Institute of Computer Science, one historian and one professor emeritus in zooecology from Uppsala University.

The blog allows comments and has an RSS feed, but no visible permalinks. For some reason the RSS feed doesn’t show up in my Bloglines account, although it says “10 new items”. Hope it is just a temporary bug.

Halebop launches Sweden’s “first” mobile blog

Halebop today launched the first (?) mobile blogging solution in Sweden, according to a press release. For 5 SEK (about 0.55 Euro) mobile phone users can get a private blog for their photos on www.halebop.se. To promote the launch Halebop lets hip hop bands Snook, MMBA and Chords have their own mobile blogs on the site. So far, they are not very blog-like, but rather a Flickr-like hosting solution for photos from camera phones. No permalinks for example. And question is if it even is the first solution in Sweden. Zmart launched a mobile blog solution in April 2004, but I can’t quite figure out how it works and if you are able to post photos or not.

Swedish version of this blog

I have started a Swedish version of this blog because there are times when it is easier to write in my native tongue, and some stories might only be relevant to Swedish readers. In addition, some Swedes might find it easier to comment in Swedish. The blog is called Sfumato (definition).

I just posted a text in Swedish on Sfumato about a rising interest in blogs from traditional media, which indicates that the decreasing number of articles in October was just a dent in the curve.

Recent articles (in Swedish):

Internetworld

Nerikes Allehanda and Bergslagsposten

Dagens Media

Internetworld

Dagens Media