Local newspapers hit by flooding - journalist

water has led to power outages in Amedia basement in Lillestrøm.

OF Glenn Slydal Johansen and Martin Huseby Jensen [22/05/2013 10:07]

flooding now affects the first media companies. In Amedia facilities in Lillestrøm have a water leak knocked out the internet connection to a variety of group newspapers.

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– We have had a water leak in the basement of Rose Road. There lies the key infrastructure in relation to energized circuits. This means that the power is knocked out by a flood that has been great, says CTO Tom Lekang Amedia.

In addition, editorial solutions affected, because internal communication is at the center who are affected.

Many reporters around the country does not access the internet at work. Instead, they work over the internet via 3G for example on mobile.

– Readers taper

In Nordlys not update the website as a result of the crash data at the cellar. Chief Editor Anders Opdahl think it is puzzling that the data center is place in a basement, which is now full of water. He thinks it does not sound too tricked out to place a computer brain in a damp basement. But having said that it may be that it is secured with bonnet and other things he did not know.

– It’s very lovely this. For we are the in the same mode as we were in 1997. We are disconnected from the outside world and the web is immaterial. And then we can focus on the delicious print edition …

– So our readers lose. For we are, in effect paralyzed, for all we have of current news coverage today is focused towards digital platforms.

And so it is a paradox that while the data center is filled with water in Norway, we have the finest day in living memory here in Tromsø, says Opdahl explaining that they still have the opportunity to update the website with your cell phone. – It is not exactly optimal.

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Amedia working with Telenor to technically get internet from somewhere else.

– They get the internet in minutes. We also have operations at two other locations, so we work to switche on, say Lekang.

– Have you been insufficient forbederedt?

– This has never happened in my years in Amedia.

– But many of us who grew up on Raumarike remember the great flood of 1995?

– Yes, but Roseveien is high. I guess it is water currents coming up from Skedsmo plateau.

latter’s backup solutions for the editorial system Lekang laws in place during the morning.

Databases and manufacturing platform is so far not affected because it is in a different computer labs. Lekang said the group also has backup at other sites in the Oslo region.

As a result of the internet breach Amedia employees do not have access to e-mail this morning. Mobile phones are not affected.

printing plant in Lillestrøm is not affected by the flood.

(Last updated: 22/05/2013 10:12)

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