Áramótaskaupið is an annual Icelandic television comedy special, broadcast on New Year's Eve by the state public service broadcaster RÚV. Initially aired on radio in 1948, and later moving to television in 1966, it features sketches satirizing the news events of the past year.
Elísabet Kristín Jökulsdóttir is an Icelandic author and journalist born in Reykjavík on 16 April 1958. She lived in Greece for a year in her youth and had a variety of jobs before writing. Her first book of poems came out in 1989. She has written short stories, novels, and plays since then. She is best known for her poetry, freelance journalism, and theatrical work.
DV is an online newspaper in Iceland published by Torg ehf. It came into existence as a daily newspaper in 1981 when two formerly independent newspapers, Vísir and Dagblaðið, merged.
Ragnhildur Steinunn Jónsdóttir is an Icelandic actress and television presenter who is the assistant director of RÚV, the Icelandic national broadcaster. She is a former Miss Iceland.
Vísir was an Icelandic newspaper founded in December 1910 by Einar Gunnarsson, originally only distributed in and around Reykjavík. In 1967, Jónas Kristjánsson became its editor. In 1975, he left the paper after a conflict with the ownership group of on his editorial policy and founded Dagblaðið.
Sverrir Páll Guðnason is a Swedish and Icelandic actor.
Ragna Lóa Stefánsdóttir is an Icelandic former football player who played for Úrvalsdeild kvenna clubs ÍA, Stjarnan, Valur and KR. Ragna Lóa won 35 caps and scored two goals for the Iceland women's national football team.
Egill Helgason is an Icelandic journalist and television presenter.
Hörður Torfason is a noted Icelandic songwriter and activist. He has written plays and poetry, played numerous roles on stage and in several films, directed about 50 stage productions and designed and built stage sets for most of them.
Björgvin Franz Gíslason is an Icelandic actor, entertainer and children's television host.
Örlygur Aron Sturluson was an Icelandic basketball player, who played for Njarðvík in the Icelandic Úrvalsdeild where he won the national championship in 1998. He started playing for the Icelandic national team in 1999 and was considered one of the most promising prospects in Icelandic basketball at the time of his death.
Stundin was an Icelandic bi-weekly newspaper known for investigative journalism. It took the form of both an online newspaper and a news magazine. It was founded in 2015 by former staff of DV after a hostile takeover of the paper. It was funded through the Karolina Fund platform and reached its goal of five million Icelandic krónas in two days. The chief editors of the paper where Ingibjörg Dögg Kjartansdóttir and Jón Trausti Reynisson. They each owned a 12 percent share in the company, and no single shareholder was allowed to own more than a 15 percent share. In January 2023, it merged with Kjarninn to form Heimildin.
Land tækifæranna is a 2008 crime fiction novel by Ævar Örn Jósepsson. The backdrop for the events was the 2008 Icelandic financial crisis, with Ævar Örn rewriting parts of the novel just before publication to respond to the unfolding political situation in Iceland. It won the Blóðdropinn award and was thus nominated for the Glass Key Award. Published in Reykjavik by Uppheimar, 2008, ISBN 9979659165. It is the author's fifth crime novel with the same characters, and received positive reviews. In the assessment of Katrín Jakobsdóttir;
The community divide suits Ævar well and he is on great form in this book, creating a nice plot around the murdered Pole and the financier (útrásarvíkingur), and clearly enjoys putting words into the mouths of his characters when he constructs dialogues about the situation. Land of Opportunities thus testifies well to what good effects he has achieved in the form, and at the same time he has distinguished himself with a sharp social commentary and well established subject matter.
Jónas Kristjánsson was an Icelandic writer, newspaper journalist and editor. He was one of the most influential people in the Icelandic newspaper history during the second half of the 20th century and was one of the strongest spokespersons for moving the newspapers publications away from the political parties.
Óli Björn Kárason is an Icelandic politician and former newspaper editor and reporter. He was the founder and first editor of Viðskiptablaðið. From 1999 to 2003 he served as the editor of Dagblaðið Vísir. After serving as a deputy member of parliament of parliament for the Independence Party from 2010 to 2016, he was voted as a full time member in the 2016 Icelandic parliamentary election.
Gunnar Smári Egilsson is an Icelandic journalist, publisher, and editor. He was one of the founders of Fréttablaðið and the weekly Eintak and Morgunpóstur as well as editing the weekly Pressan. In addition, he was one of the founders and publishers of Nyhedsavisen, which was published in Denmark on the model of Fréttablaðið, and one of the owners and editors of Fréttatíminn.
Sara Dögg Ásgeirsdóttir is an Icelandic actress. She has had major roles in a number of Icelandic films and TV series, and in 2013 won the Edda Award for Best Leading Actress for Pressa.
Blackport is an Icelandic television drama miniseries, written by Gísli Örn Garðarsson, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson and Mikael Torfason and produced by Vesturport in association with RÚV. The first episode of the eight part series premiered on the RÚV on 26 December 2021.
Gísli Marteinn Baldursson is an Icelandic television host and a former politician. He is known for hosting the talk shows Laugardagskvöld með Gísla Marteini and Vikan með Gísla Marteini as well as the Icelandic broadcasts of the Eurovision Song Contest.
Óskar Þór Axelsson is an Icelandic film director and screenwriter. He is best known for the 2012 crime film Black's Game and the 2017 mystery-horror I Remember You.
