The Reykjavík Grapevine

Type newspaper
Format Tabloid
Owner Fröken ehf
Publisher Hilmar Grétarsson
Editor Haukur S. Magnússon
Founded 13 June 2003
Headquarters Reykjavík, Iceland
Circulation 30.101
Official website www.grapevine.is [1]

The Reykjavik Grapevine is an English language Icelandic magazine based in the Icelandic capital of Reykjavík. The magazine debuted on June 13, 2003. 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 Reykjavik, the Grapevine Guide, in 2006, through the Mal og menning imprint of Edda Press.

The magazine is currently a year-round publication, fortnightly from May to September, and monthly from October to April, a total of 18 issues a year. The current editor is Haukur S. Magnússon, who took over from Sveinn Birkir Björnsson.

During the Iceland Airwaves music festival, Reykjavík Grapevine becomes a daily publication focusing on music.

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