''Lister (named Farsunds Avis'' until May 2014) is a
local newspaper published in
Farsund,
Norway. It covers the
Lister Region i southwestern Norway, with the municipalities of
Farsund,
Lyngdal and
Hægebostad as its main area. The newspaper was established in 1889 as ''Farsunds Avis'', but changed its name to ''Lister'' in May 2014.
It also runs the news site ''lister24.no''.
Farsunds Avis today
In 2016 it had a circulation of 5,273.
The newspaper is published by ''AS Farsunds Aktiebogtrykkeri'', which is mainly owned by
Fædrelandsvennen AS (86.2%), Glastad Invest AS (7.7%), Odd Reidar Øie (2.9%), Aslaug Bech Cutler (1.1%), and various other owners (2.1%).
Sveinung W. Jensen is
editor-in-chief. Kjell Henrik Moen is the company's chairman.
History
According to history, Farsunds Avis was born thanks to a misprint.
About Farsunds Avis (in Norwegian)
The now defunct radical newspaper '' Lister'' (1873–1934) reported from a meeting in Farsund held by the Conservative Party of Norway. Officials from the Church were also present, and the newspaper undeliberately named them «presteskrap» instead of «presteskap». The single ''r'' changed the meaning completely in Norwegian, from « clergy» to «clergy rubbish».
The people of the upper class in Farsund were fed up and founded their own newspaper on 15 June 1889. Consul P. Sundt was the founding father and Farsunds Avis's first chairman.
In the 1970s, Farsunds Avis started offset printing
Offset printing is a common printing technique in which the inked image is transferred (or "offset") from a plate to a rubber blanket and then to the printing surface. When used in combination with the lithographic process, which is based on t ...
and became a daily newspaper. The newspaper went from broadsheet
A broadsheet is the largest newspaper format and is characterized by long Vertical and horizontal, vertical pages, typically of . Other common newspaper formats include the smaller Berliner (format), Berliner and Tabloid (newspaper format), ta ...
to compact format 9 March 2002, and in May 2014 it changed name from Farsunds Avis to Lister, to clearly mark that it covers the whole region, and not just the Farsund area. The paper edition was also reduced from six to four days per week.
References
Norwegian Media Registry
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External links
Farsunds Avis Website
Agder
Daily newspapers published in Norway
Newspapers established in 1889