 In 2015 he was appointed as a member of the Broadcasting Council of the Norwegian public broadcaster NRK.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.Many Muslims expressed outrage against the drawings, and the publications eventually sparked violent protests in the Middle East, including against the Norwegian embassy in Damascus, Syria which was set on fire, and Norwegian flags being burned in the Gaza Strip.