2017 Pulitzer Prize awarded to the Panama Papers investigation
The reports revolving around the Panama Papers have been awarded the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting according to an announcement from C...
Former Prime Minister voted out as leader of the Progressive party
The Progressive party struggled with considerable tension in the weeks leading up to its annual party assembly on Sunday where Sigmundur David Gunnlau...
Primary elections in Iceland – Women step down and Gunnlaugsson, former prime minister challenged
The primary elections are well underway in Iceland, with parties busy preparing for early elections this fall. The pirate party, one of the bigger par...
Wall street lawyers hold no fear for Iceland’s defiant prime minister
IceNews recently reported about Wall Street lawyers preparing to indict the Icelandic government for defaulting on sovereign claims. Bloomberg reporte...
Former prime minister publicly speaks for the first time since his resignation
Iceland’s former prime minster Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson spoke in public for the first time today after he famously resigned office in early ...
Independence Party and Pirate Party largest in Iceland
The Independence Party and the Pirate Party are the largest political parties in Iceland and would have a majority in parliament, according to a new p...
Crowd funding for investigative journalism
The release of the so called Panama Papers famously caused an uproar in Icelandic society of late starting with the infamous interview with former pri...
Parliamentary elections in autumn
Early parliamentary elections have now been proposed in autumn, but the exact date is unclear