''Dagen'' is a

Norwegian Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to: *Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe * Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway * Demographics of Norway *The Norwegian language, including ...

Christian newspaper established in 1919, and published in

Bergen Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula o ...

. The average circulation in 2004 was 5,307 copies. The ideological goal of the newspaper was "to influence society from a revival Christian point of view". On 1 January 2008 the newspaper merged with another Christian newspaper, ''Magazinet'', and was renamed to ''DagenMagazinet''. On 1 April 2011 ''DagenMagazinet'' was renamed to ''Dagen''. The current chief editor of ''Dagen'' is Vebjørn Selbekk, former editor of ''Magazinet''. ''Magazinet'' became known to a wider audience in January 2006, when it was the first newspaper in Norway to reprint the ''

Jyllands-Posten ''Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten'' (; English: ''The Morning Newspaper "The Jutland Post"''), commonly shortened to ''Jyllands-Posten'' or ''JP'', is a Danish daily broadsheet newspaper. It is based in Aarhus C, Jutland, and with a weekday circula ...

Muhammad cartoons The ''Jyllands-Posten'' Muhammad cartoons controversy (or Muhammad cartoons crisis, da, Muhammedkrisen) began after the Danish newspaper ''Jyllands-Posten'' published 12 editorial cartoons on 30 September 2005, most of which depicted Muhamma ...

which, according to the editor, was done in the name of freedom of speech. The printing of these drawings resulted in attacks on Norwegian installations in some parts of the Muslim world. In 2019, ''Dagen'' purchased ''Korsets Seier'', the publication of the Pentecostal Church in Norway. The newspaper is dependent on economic support from the Norwegian Government.Pressestøtte: Dagen og Medier24 får størst økning. Klassekampen får fremdeles mest.
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