Selbekk came under global media attention after 9 January 2006, when as chief editor of Magazinet he reprinted facsimiles of the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons as part of a news story about debate around the publication of the cartoons in Denmark [REF].
In 2015 Selbekk was awarded the Norwegian Fritt Ord Honorary Award together with culture editor of Jyllands-Posten during the crisis, Flemming Rose [REF].