The Reykjavík Grapevine

The Reykjavík Grapevine is an English language Icelandic magazine and online newspaper based in the Icelandic capital of Reykjavík.^[5][6] Its target audience primarily consists of foreigners, immigrants, international students, young Icelanders, and tourists.^[5][7][8] The magazine is currently a year-round publication, fortnightly from May to October, and monthly from November to April.

The Reykjavík Grapevine

Type	Magazine
Format	Tabloid
Owner(s)	Aðalsteinn Jörundsson, Jón Trausti Sigurðarson, Oddur Óskar Kjartansson^[1] & Marcus Parks^[2]
Publisher	Jón Trausti Sigurðarson
Editor-in-chief	Catharine Fulton^[3]
Founded	13 June 2003
Headquarters	Reykjavík, Iceland
Circulation	25,000 ^[4]
ISSN	2298-5212 (print) 2298-5220 (web)
Website	grapevine.is

The magazine debuted on June 13, 2003.^[9] Its first six issues were edited by Jón Trausti Sigurðarson and Valur Gunnarsson. In its second year, the magazine grew in circulation from 25,000 issues to 30,101. In its third year, American-born Bart Cameron took over as editor, also editing Inside Reykjavík, the Grapevine Guide, in 2006, through the Mál og Menning imprint of Edda Press.^[10]

Bart was followed over the next decade by editors Sveinn Birkir Björnsson,^[11] Haukur S. Magnússon,^[12] Anna Andersen,^[13] Helga Þórey Jónsdóttir,^[14] Sveinbjörn Pálsson^[15] again, Jón Trausti Sigurðarson.^[16] and Valur Grettisson.^[17] The current Editor-in-Chief is Canadian-born Catharine Fulton. ^[18]

During the Iceland Airwaves music festival, The Reykjavík Grapevine became a daily publication focusing on music for some years. From 2016 to 2019, The Reykjavík Grapevine published a special magazine^[19] to celebrate the Iceland Airwaves festival, and started a quarterly city-guide sister-publication entitled Best of Reykjavík. A thrice-annually Best of Iceland magazine followed. The magazine's relative longevity has put it in a unique position as an English language publication about Iceland, and has sometimes made it a popular point of reference in international news and media.^[20] In a similar vein, in 2016, the magazine's Twitter coverage of the Euro 2016 football tournament became popular internationally.^[21][22]

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4. "About - The Reykjavík Grapevine Magazine". April 15, 2014. Retrieved 12 March 2016.
5. Holt, Fabian; Kärjä, Antti-Ville (2017). The Oxford Handbook of Popular Music in the Nordic Countries. Oxford University Press. p. 160. ISBN 978-0-19-060390-8.
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8. Merskin, Debra L. (2019-11-12). The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Mass Media and Society. SAGE Publications. pp. 781–782. ISBN 978-1-4833-7552-6.
9. "10 Years Ago: From Issue 1, 2003". The Reykjavík Grapevine. 2013. p. 8. Retrieved 22 April 2022 – via Timarit.is. The first issue was published on June 13, 2003.
10. "Inside Reykjavík - The Grapevine". www.forlagid.is. Forlagið. Retrieved 6 August 2014.
11. "Issue 14 2006". The Reykjavik Grapevine. Retrieved 2021-04-03.
12. Magnusson, Haukur S. (January 2009). "The Reykjavík Grapevine" (PDF). The Reykjavík Grapevine. 1: 2.
13. "Issue 02 2012". The Reykjavik Grapevine. Retrieved 2021-04-03.
14. "Issue 5, 2016". The Reykjavik Grapevine. Retrieved 2021-04-03.
15. "Issue 16, 2016". The Reykjavik Grapevine. Retrieved 2021-04-03.
16. "Issue 01, 2017". The Reykjavik Grapevine. Retrieved 2021-04-03.
17. "Issue 3, 2017". The Reykjavik Grapevine. Retrieved 2021-04-03.
18. "Ritstjórnarskipti og nýr eigandi hjá Grapevine". Fréttablaðið (in Icelandic). Retrieved 2022-12-17.
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21. "Icelandic Magazine Hilariously Live-Tweets Euro 2016". Time.
22. "'Iceland inflict crushing 1-1 defeat on Portugal' – the view from Reykjavik". the Guardian. June 15, 2016.