| Type: | Magazine |
| Format: | Tabloid |
| Foundation: | 13 June 2003 |
| Owner: | Aðalsteinn Jörundsson, Jón Trausti Sigurðarson, Oddur Óskar Kjartansson[1] & Marcus Parks[2] |
| Circulation: | 25,000 [3] |
| Publisher: | Jón Trausti Sigurðarson |
| Headquarters: | Reykjavík, Iceland |
| Issn: | 2298-5212 |
| Eissn: | 2298-5220 |
| Website: | grapevine.is |
| Chiefeditor: | Catharine Fulton[4] |
The Reykjavík Grapevine is an English language Icelandic magazine and online newspaper based in the Icelandic capital of Reykjavík.[5] Its target audience primarily consists of foreigners, immigrants, international students, young Icelanders, and tourists.[6] [7] 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.[8] 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.[9]
Bart was followed over the next decade by editors Sveinn Birkir Björnsson,[10] Haukur S. Magnússon,[11] Anna Andersen,[12] Helga Þórey Jónsdóttir,[13] Sveinbjörn Pálsson[14] again, Jón Trausti Sigurðarson.[15] and Valur Grettisson.[16] The current Editor-in-Chief is Canadian-born Catharine Fulton. [17]
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[18] to celebrate the Iceland Airwaves festival, and started a quarterly city-guide sister-publication entitled Best of Reykjavík. A thrice-annually Best of Iceland magazine followed. The magazine's relative longevity has put it in a unique position as an English language publication about Iceland, and has sometimes made it a popular point of reference in international news and media.[19] In a similar vein, in 2016, the magazine's Twitter coverage of the Euro 2016 football tournament became popular internationally.[20] [21]