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Min Áigi
Type	Twice weekly
Format	Tabloid

Owner	Finnmark Dagblad, Kárášjohka-Karasjok Municipality, Norwegian Sámi Association, Samenes Landsforbund, Davvi Girji, local Sámi societies and individual shareholders
Editor-in-Chief	Svein Nordsletta
Founded	May 22, 1993
Language	Northern Sámi
Headquarters	Suomageaidnu 14, 9730 Kárášjohka
Circulation	1,177 (in 2006)

Website: www.minaigi.no

Min Áigi (Our Time in Northern Sami) is a Northern Sámi language newspaper which is published in Kárášjohka in Norway twice a week. Min Áigi is a continuation of the Sámi newspaper Sámi Áigi, which went bankrupt in 1989. The first issue of Min Áigi was published on 22 May 1993. Although the newspaper's editorial staff and most of its subscribers are from Norway, Min Áigi is intended to be a newspaper for Sámi people throughout the Nordic countries.

Min Áigi has local offices in Deatnu Tana, Guovdageaidnu and Johkamohkki. Its marketing department is based in Leavdnja.

Finnmark Dagblad in Hammerfest is the main stakeholder in the newspaper through the company Min Áigi OS. Other stakeholders include Kárášjoga gielda, the Norgga Sámiid Riikasearvi, the Samiid Ædnansær’vi / Samenes Landsforbund and the publisher Davvi Girji. The editor-in-chief is Svein Nordsletta.

1 Merger on course
2 See also
3 Note
4 External links

[edit] Merger on course

Min Áigi and contender Áššu announced on August 27, 2007^[1], that they were to merge to allow the launch of a new daily newspaper in the Sámi language, with a new editor-in-chief. The first issue of the paper should be released «sometime» during 2008, pending approval of subsidies (without which the paper could not survive) by the Norwegian Culture Department, to be decided during its budgetary session next fall.

This merger is seen by both parties as the only economic, realistic future, though the new paper will have higher production costs, said Min Áigi 's chairman Magne Svineng in a press conference. Áššu and Min Áigi will each own 33% of the new paper. The new title will keep the present bureaus in Kárášjohka and Guovdageaidnu.

The title of this new publication is yet to be decided, after proposals by the readers of both newspapers.