Recommerce trade in Schibsted’s marketplaces is hitting a record high. More and more people are buying things that have been previously owned by someone else. As Christmas is coming up – it’s a good time to join the movement. Most of us know recommerce as resale of goods that will
This is the core purpose of Schibsted’s jobs marketplaces: To create equal job opportunities for everyone. “But first, we have to sweep for our own door,” says SVP Eddie Sjølie. Now the first Diversity Index survey has been completed. The lack of fairness in the job market can be distressing.
Schibsted is strengthening its strategic focus on AI. Two internal teams – Schibsted Futures Lab and the AI Enablement program – will merge and grow – to support all of Schibsted’s use of AI technology. The new team will also be strengthened by two senior data scientists from the data
Hundreds of software engineers in Schibsted now use Artificial Intelligence to help them write code. “My productivity has grown at least 15 %,” estimates Pedro Goncalves. Good software engineering requires lots of creativity as well as superb skills in solving problems. But the daily work is also full of tedious
Eivind Hjertholm Fiskerud, Bergens Tidende’s long term development editor, will contribute to advancing the work on artificial intelligence (AI) in Schibsted’s Norwegian and Swedish media houses. In recent months, alongside his role as development editor, Fiskerud has been central to a project across Schibsted’s news division, which has examined, among
A fact checker that tells you what is true and not in tv-debates, an AI-generated podcast featuring the most popular articles and the Aftonbladet AI chatbot. These are only three out of seven ideas from an AI hackathon arranged by Aftonbladet. “It was amazing to see how many innovative ideas
Find out how Petra Wikström and the Public Policy team work behind the scenes among politicians and bureaucrats. During a session at Nordic Media Days in Bergen in May, Petra Wikström didn’t expect too many people to show up to hear her talk about EU’s efforts to regulate the global
The “How we work in VG” portal was launched in October 2022. VG won the category “Best trust initiative” during the European Digital Award 2023 held by the international press organization Wan-Ifra. “Trust is perhaps the most important element of editor-controlled media today. The fact that VG has received international
Schibsted’s regional newspaper Bergens Tidende clinched the prestigious “Best in Show” at the INMA Global Media Awards 2023 for their groundbreaking project, “Journey Around the World.” “It’s hard to believe that a small regional newspaper from a small country like Norway could win the most prestigious prize in competition with
A news service that presents news to the beat of AI-generated music – or as an AI-generated rap song. Aftonbladet and Schibsted’s innovation lab IN/LAB are now using AI to help in an experiment to get more young people to participate in independent journalism. In the fall of 2022, innovation
On average 527,814 readers visited E24.no every day during the last quarter. This makes E24 the eighth largest website in Norway, according to figures from the Mediabedriftenes Landsforening (MBL). E24 is part of Schibsted’s family of digital brands. The number of readers has increased compared to the same period last
Aftenposten took home top prize “Media house of the year” as well as several other awards. The media awards are handed out by the National Association of Media Companies during the Nordic Media Days in Bergen. Winning a total of nine prizes, it was certainly a night to celebrate for