The Reykjavík Grapevine

{{Short description|English language Icelandic magazine and online news}}

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{{Infobox newspaper

| logo = The Reykjavík Grapevine logo.svg

| type = Magazine

| format = Tabloid

| foundation = June 13, 2003

| owner = Aðalsteinn Jörundsson, Jón Trausti Sigurðarson, Oddur Óskar Kjartansson{{cite web|title=Valur floginn út og inn flögrar eiginkona eigandans|url=https://www.visir.is/g/20222342417d/valur-floginn-ut-og-inn-flograr-eiginkona-eigandans}} & Marcus Parks{{cite web|title=The Icelandic Media Commission|url=https://fjolmidlanefnd.is/fjolmidlar/froken-ehf/}}

| circulation = 25,000{{cite web|title=About - The Reykjavík Grapevine Magazine|url=http://grapevine.is/about/|access-date=12 March 2016|date=April 15, 2014}}

| publisher = Jón Trausti Sigurðarson

| headquarters = Reykjavík, Iceland

| ISSN = 2298-5212

| eISSN = 2298-5220

| website = [http://grapevine.is grapevine.is]

| chiefeditor = Catharine Fulton{{Cite web|title=Ritstjórnarskipti og nýr eigandi hjá Grapevine|url=https://www.frettabladid.is/frettir/ritstjornarskipti-og-nyr-eigandi-hja-grapevine/|access-date=2022-12-17|website=Fréttablaðið|language=Icelandic}}

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The Reykjavík Grapevine is an English-language Icelandic magazine and online newspaper based in the Icelandic capital of Reykjavík.{{Cite book |last1=Holt |first1=Fabian |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VDoqDwAAQBAJ |title=The Oxford Handbook of Popular Music in the Nordic Countries |last2=Kärjä |first2=Antti-Ville |date=2017 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-060390-8 |pages=160 |language=en}}{{Citation |last1=Bird |first1=Deanne K. |title=Crisis Coordination and Communication During the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull Eruption |date=2018 |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/11157_2017_6 |work=Observing the Volcano World: Volcano Crisis Communication |pages=283 |editor-last=Fearnley |editor-first=Carina J. |place=Cham |publisher=Springer International Publishing |language=en |doi=10.1007/11157_2017_6 |isbn=978-3-319-44097-2 |access-date=2022-04-22 |last2=Jóhannesdóttir |first2=Guðrún |last3=Reynisson |first3=Víðir |last4=Karlsdóttir |first4=Sigrún |last5=Gudmundsson |first5=Magnús T. |last6=Gísladóttir |first6=Guðrún |editor2-last=Bird |editor2-first=Deanne K. |editor3-last=Haynes |editor3-first=Katharine |editor4-last=McGuire |editor4-first=William J.|doi-access=free }} Its target audience primarily consists of foreigners, immigrants, international students, young Icelanders, and tourists.{{Cite book |last1=Kaplan |first1=Robert B. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KEcGDAAAQBAJ |title=Language Planning in Europe: Cyprus, Iceland and Luxembourg |last2=Baldauf |first2=Richard B. Jr. |last3=Kamwangamalu |first3=Nkonko |date=22 April 2016 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-91674-0 |pages=133–134 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Merskin |first=Debra L. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ve-9DwAAQBAJ |title=The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Mass Media and Society |date=2019-11-12 |publisher=SAGE Publications |isbn=978-1-4833-7552-6 |pages=781–782 |language=en}} The magazine is currently a year-round publication, fortnightly from May to October and monthly from November to April.

The magazine debuted on June 13, 2003.{{Cite news |date=2013 |title=10 Years Ago: From Issue 1, 2003 |pages=8 |work=The Reykjavík Grapevine |url=https://timarit.is/page/5803461 |access-date=22 April 2022 |quote=The first issue was published on June 13, 2003. |via=Timarit.is}} 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.{{cite web|title=Inside Reykjavík - The Grapevine|url=http://www.forlagid.is/?p=6146|website=www.forlagid.is|publisher=Forlagið|access-date=6 August 2014}}

Bart was followed over the next decade by editors Sveinn Birkir Björnsson,{{Cite web|title=Issue 14 2006|url=https://grapevine.is/issue/issue-14-2006/|access-date=2021-04-03|website=The Reykjavik Grapevine|language=en-US}} Haukur S. Magnússon,{{Cite journal|last=Magnusson|first=Haukur S.|date=January 2009|title=The Reykjavík Grapevine|url=https://grapevine.is/wp-content/uploads/grapevine_01_2009_online.pdf|journal=The Reykjavík Grapevine|volume=1|pages=2}} Anna Andersen,{{Cite web|title=Issue 02 2012|url=https://grapevine.is/issue/issue-02-2012/|access-date=2021-04-03|website=The Reykjavik Grapevine|language=en-US}} Helga Þórey Jónsdóttir,{{Cite web|title=Issue 5, 2016|url=https://grapevine.is/issue/issue-5-2016/|access-date=2021-04-03|website=The Reykjavik Grapevine|language=en-US}} Sveinbjörn Pálsson{{Cite web|title=Issue 16, 2016|url=https://grapevine.is/issue/issue-16-2016/|access-date=2021-04-03|website=The Reykjavik Grapevine|language=en-US}} again, Jón Trausti Sigurðarson.{{Cite web|title=Issue 01, 2017|url=https://grapevine.is/issue/9961168/|access-date=2021-04-03|website=The Reykjavik Grapevine|language=en-US}} and Valur Grettisson.{{Cite web|title=Issue 3, 2017|url=https://grapevine.is/issue/issue-3-2017/|access-date=2021-04-03|website=The Reykjavik Grapevine|language=en-US}} The current Editor-in-Chief is Canadian-born Catharine Fulton. {{Cite web|title=Ritstjórnarskipti og nýr eigandi hjá Grapevine|url=https://www.frettabladid.is/frettir/ritstjornarskipti-og-nyr-eigandi-hja-grapevine/|access-date=2022-12-17|website=Fréttablaðið|language=Icelandic}}

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{{Cite web|url=https://issuu.com/rvkgrapevine/docs/airwaves-online|title=Airwaves 2016 issue by Reykjavík Grapevine - Issuu|website=issuu.com}} to celebrate the Iceland Airwaves festival and started a quarterly city-guide sister publication, Best of Reykjavík. A thrice-annually Best of Iceland magazine followed. The magazine's relative longevity has positioned it uniquely as an English-language publication about Iceland and has sometimes made it a popular reference point in international news and media.{{Cite web|title=reykjavik grapevine -site:grapevine.is - Google Search|url=https://www.google.com/search?q=reykjavik+grapevine+-site:grapevine.is&tbm=nws&start=20|access-date=2021-04-12|website=www.google.com}} The magazine's Twitter coverage of the UEFA Euro 2016 football tournament became popular internationally.{{Cite magazine|url=https://time.com/4371015/iceland-twitter-euro-2016-reykjavik-grapevine-soccer-football/|title=Icelandic Magazine Hilariously Live-Tweets Euro 2016|magazine=Time}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jun/15/iceland-portugal-reykjavik-grapevine-euro-2016-commentary|title='Iceland inflict crushing 1-1 defeat on Portugal' – the view from Reykjavik|date=June 15, 2016|website=the Guardian}}