Stavanger Aftenblad

Stavanger Aftenblad
Type Daily newspaper
Format Tabloid
Owner(s) Media Norge
Founder(s) Lars Oftedal
Founded 1893
Political alignment Christian-conservative
Language Norwegian
Headquarters Stavanger

Stavanger Aftenblad (OSE: STA) (lit: Stavanger Evening Paper) or simply Aftenbladet is a daily newspaper based in Stavanger, Norway.

History and profile

Stavanger Aftenblad building in Stavanger

Stavanger Aftenblad was founded in 1893[1] by the priest Lars Oftedal, and was for a long period a publication for the Liberal Party. The paper is based in Stavanger[1] and is owned by the Media Norge,[2] a subsidiary of the Schibsted company.[3]

Stavanger Aftenblad has a christian-conservative stance.[4] The paper went from broadsheet format to tabloid format on 16 September 2006. Its editor-in-chief is Lars Helle.

The online version of Stavanger Aftenblad had an English News Service which was aimed at the English speaking foreign community in Norway who were not fluent in the language. It was also aimed at international audience interested in Norway. The English service closed in January 2009 due to the then-ongoing financial crisis.[5]

The circulation of Stavanger Aftenblad was 70,000 copies in 2003.[6] The paper had a circulation of 68,186 copies in 2005.[1] Its circulation was 65,500 copies in 2009.[7]

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 "The press in Norway". BBC. 20 February 2006. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
  2. ↑ "Conditions for Media Norge Merger". Competition Authority. 4 November 2008. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
  3. ↑ Sigurd Høst (1999). "Newspaper Growth in the Television Era. The Norwegian Experience" (PDF). Nordicom Review 1 (1). Retrieved 31 December 2014.
  4. ↑ Kristian Alm (2007). "Challenges to Incestment Ethics in the Norwegian Petroleum Fund: A Newspaper Debate" (PDF). Philosophica 80. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
  5. ↑ "Aftenbladet suspends English site. / The English version of Stavanger Aftenblad will no longer be updated due to the financial crisis.". 15 January 2009.
  6. ↑ "World Press Trends" (PDF). Paris: World Association of Newspapers. 2004. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  7. ↑ Eli Skogerbø; Marte Winsvold (2011). "Audiences on the move? Use and assessment of local print and online newspapers" (PDF). European Journal of Communication 26 (3): 218. Retrieved 24 January 2015.

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