Media Director at NRK, Øyvind Lund, took up his position as Nordvision’s new Chair on 1 January 2019. In this interview, he gives his views on competition, technological trends, public service media and the direction for the Nordvision partnership in the coming years.

In 2019, Nordvision will have existed for 60 years. The partnership has evolved and is now more necessary than ever. In these challenging times, strong partnerships are vital to media providers in general and to public service media in particular. As public service providers, we can produce and provide more, better and less expensive content when we join forces and cooperate.

As the Nordic public service partnership looks back on 2018 being its second-best year ever, Nordvision is set to turn 60 in absolute top form.

For almost a year and in deepest secrecy, Danish and German journalists have worked together to reveal the very core of a tax-refund scam amounting to at least 55 billion euros, reported in breaking news last Thursday by DR, Yle and SVT along with 14 fellow international media outlets. What this clearly shows is that international cooperation is the way forward for investigative journalism, says one of the journalists behind the DR documentary “The Men Who Robbed Europe” (Mændene, der plyndrede Europa).

More than 100 some-specialists from public service-institutions in five countries met in Oslo to learn and share, brought together by NRK and Nordvision. Here are the conference takeaways served as fast food. Enjoy!

Public service providers in the Nordic region have agreed on a shared strategy for producing more Nordic drama.

2017 saw Nordvision, the Nordic public service media partnership, deliver more programme episodes than ever before in its 59-year history. Although this record-breaking run may be about to end as far as flow TV programmes are concerned, the Nordvision collaboration continues to evolve towards a more digital and strategy-based focus.

DR, NRK, RUV, SVT and YLE has decided on a new joint vision and strategy for more high-quality Nordic public service drama. The five Nordic public service broadcasters want to be the homes of the best Nordic drama

A unique nordic collaboration within social media insights and data sets the standard for data quality and comparability. A new round of development speeds up the process.