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Norway News Today. Read the latest news, written by regional journalism, watch editorials and International headlines on major online newspapers of Norway.

Aftenposten

Norway News Today — AFTENPOSTEN Cover. Aftenposten is Norway’s largest printed newspaper by circulation. It is based in Oslo. It sold 211,769 copies in 2015, and estimated 1.2 million readers. It converted from broadsheet to compact format in March 2005. Aftenposten’s online edition is at Aftenposten.no. It is considered a newspaper of record for Norway.
Aftenposten is a private company wholly owned by the public company Schibsted ASA. Norway’s second largest newspaper, VG, is also owned by Schibsted. Norwegian owners held a 42% of the shares in Schibsted at the end of 2015.
The paper has around 740 employees.

Verdens Gang AS

Norway News Today — Verdens Gang (“The course of the world”), generally known under the abbreviation VG, is a Norwegian tabloid newspaper. In 2016, circulation numbers stood at 93,883, having declined from a peak circulation of 390,510 in 2002. VG is nevertheless the most read online newspaper in Norway, with about 2 million daily readers.
Verdens Gang AS is a private company wholly owned by the public company Schibsted.

Dagbladet

Dagbladet (lit.: The Daily Magazine) is one of Norway’s largest newspapers and is published in the tabloid format. It has 1,400,000 daily readers on mobile, web and paper. Traditionally Dagbladet is considered the main liberal newspaper of Norway, with a generally liberal progressive editorial outlook, to some extent associated with the movement of cultural radicalism in Scandinavian history.
The paper edition had a circulation of 46,250 copies in 2016, down from a peak of 228,834 in 1994. The editor-in-chief is Alexandra Beverfjord, the political editor is Geir Ramnefjell, the news editor is Frode Hansen and the culture editor is Sigrid Hvidsten.
Dagbladet is published six days a week and includes the additional feature magazine Magasinet every Saturday. Part of the daily tabloid is available at Dagbladet.no, and more articles can be accessed through a paywall. The daily readership of Dagbladet’s online tabloid was 1.24 million in 2016.

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