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''Stundin'' is an
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ic bi-weekly
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known for
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. It takes the form of both an
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and a
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. 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 are and . They each own a 12 percent share in the company, and no single shareholder is allowed to own more than a 15 percent share.


History

''Stundin'' was founded in 2015 by journalists and others that were previously employed by ''DV'' (''Dagblaðið Vísir''), another Icelandic newspaper. They claimed the new management of ''DV'' had interrupted the work of its journalists. As of November 2016, the unique online readership of ''Stundin'' per week was about 94,100. During the
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scandal, ''Stundin'' collaborated with ''Reykjavík Media'' to publish information from the Panama documents showing
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, an Icelandic bank, acted as a customer for
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and
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to report the involvement of
Samherji Samherji hf. is a fishing and fish processing company in Iceland. It is the largest fishing company in Iceland, and one of the largest in Europe. It was founded in Grindavík in 1972. Its current headquarters are in Akureyri, but the company ope ...
, an Icelandic fishing company, in the
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scandal. In 2020, journalists from the outlet received awards from the Union of Icelandic Journalists for their coverage of the Samherji Scandal in 2019. In 2021, ''Stundin'' received 25.3 million Icelandic krónas (about $USD 199,055) as part of a series of subsidies issued by the Icelandic government to various media outlets.


Glitnir coverage

On 16 October 2017, the
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District Commissioner placed an
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on ''Stundin'' and ''Reykjavík Media'', forbidding them from reporting about leaked documents pertaining to
Glitnir Forseti (Old Norse "the presiding one", "president" in modern Icelandic and Faroese) is the god of justice and reconciliation in Norse mythology. He is generally identified with Fosite, a god of the Frisians. Name Grimm took ''Forseti'', "''pr ...
, an Icelandic bank. The finances of the Prime Minister of Iceland, Bjarni Benediktsson and those who were connected to him were the focus of ''Stundin'''s coverage of the Glitnir documents. The injunction was placed after ''Stundin'' and ''Reykjavík Media'' cooperated with ''
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'' to publish information about Bjarni's financial activities. The injunction was not similarly applied to ''The Guardian''. The Icelandic government received criticism from advocates of
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due to the injunction. This included the Journalists' Union of Iceland and the
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. In February 2018, the injunction was removed by the Reykjavík District Court, and this was upheld by an appeals court. On 5 October 2018, the Landsréttur appeals court decided to lift the injunction. In March 2019, the
Supreme Court of Iceland The Supreme Court of Iceland (, lit. ''Highest Court of Iceland'') is the final court of appeal in the judiciary of Iceland. It is also the oldest of the current courts of law in Iceland and the highest of the three Icelandic court branches, t ...
rejected every legal claim made by Glitnir, siding with ''Stundin'' and upheld the decision to lift the injunction.


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