''Lofot-Tidende'' (The Lofoten Times) is a

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newspaper published in

Leknes is a town in Nordland county, Norway. The town is also the administrative centre of the municipality of Vestvågøy (with 10,764 inhabitants, it is the most populous municipality in Lofoten and Vesterålen). Leknes was designated a "town" ( ...

in the municipality of

Vestvågøy Vestvågøy is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Lofoten. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Leknes. Some of the villages in the municipality include Ballstad, Borg, ...

.''Lofot-Tidende'' homepage.
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, and

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in Nordland county and has three employees. The paper's chief editor and general manager is Karin P. Skarby. An earlier paper called ''Lofot-Tidende'' was first published in 1952.Ingebrigtsen, Øystein. 2012. Stolte avisfedre. ''Lofot-Tidene'' (November 12): 4–5. It was owned by the Nordahl family in Leknes, but it was sold to the Conservative Party some years later, and it was discontinued in 1958. Today's ''Lofot-Tidende'' was launched on November 12, 1987.Lofot-Tidene fra 1987 til 2012. 2012. ''Lofot-Tidene'' (November 12): 3. The paper was owned by Even Carlsen, Kenneth Grav, and Sverre Christoffersen. It was started because it was felt that the newspaper '' Lofotposten'' was neglecting Vestvågøy, the largest municipality in

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. The newspaper was sold to A-pressen in 1998 and, after objections from the Norwegian Media Authority that were upheld by the

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, it was finally established in 2000 that the newspaper was and is a paper owned by A-pressen, later renamed Amedia. In November 2014 the company merged ''Lofot-Tidende'' and ''Lofotposten''. At the same time, the publication of ''Lofot-Tidende'' was cut back from twice to once a week, and the website lofot-tidende.no was shut down. This caused a strong reaction in central and western Lofoten, and local people launched a new paper called ''Avisa Lofoten''. Amedia decided to reverse its decision in 2015, and in September 2015 ''Lofot-Tidende'' continued as a separate paper with one issue per week. On October 1, 2015 the website lofot-tidende.no was also reactivated. ''Lofot-Tidende'' was printed at the ''Lofotposten'' press in

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until October 1, 2009, when the Svolvær press was shut down. After this, both of the newspapers were printed by K. Nordahls Trykkeri in

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, where the newspaper ''

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'' is also printed. Today the newspaper is printed in

Harstad ( se, Hárstták) is the second-most populated municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. It is mostly located on the large island of Hinnøya. The municipal center is the town of Harstad, the most populous town in Central Hålogalan ...

Circulation

According to the

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, ''Lofot-Tidende'' has had the following annual circulation: * 2006: 5,045 * 2007: 5,182 * 2008: 4,923 * 2009: 4,649 * 2010: 4,457 * 2011: 4,267 * 2012: 4,207 * 2013: 3,950 * 2014: 3,604 * 2015: 3,067 * 2016: 2,518''Medienorge'': Opplagstall norske aviser.
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References

External links

''Lofot-Tidende'' homepage
1987 establishments in Norway Mass media in Nordland Newspapers established in 1987 Newspapers published in Norway Norwegian-language newspapers Vestvågøy {{italic title