''Nidaros'' was a Norwegian newspaper, published in

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in Sør-Trøndelag. ''Nidaros'' was started on 1 May 1902. Its first editor was former ''

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'' editor

Håkon Løken Håkon Løken (9 November 1859 – 10 September 1923) was a Norwegian jurist, journalist, newspaper editor and non-fiction writer. He was a journalist for the newspaper ''Dagsposten'' from 1890 to 1902. He founded the newspaper ''Nidaros (new ...

, and with its

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affiliation ''Nidaros'' became the largest newspaper in Trondheim, with a circulation of 20–30,000. Among the political disputes of the time were electrification of the city's tramway system, establishment of a technical institution in Trondheim, the Norwegian Institute of Technology, and the eventual

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. Løken left in 1909. From 1910 to 1911 Atle Øgaard was editor, and Kr. Aug. Retvedt took over from 1911 to 1917. Hjørvard Torsvik edited the newspaper from 1917 to 1930. Olav Røgeberg was chief editor from 1930 to 1937, and Fr. Lützow Holm edited ''Nidaros'' from 1937 to 1941. A great success was the

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'',

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's satirical story from the boom period during World War I, which was printed in the newspaper before being released as a book. The newspaper became less popular during and after the city naming controversy, when the name of the city Trondhjem was changed to Nidaros, and then among popular protest changed a second time to Trondheim. The anti-Nidaros activists did not like that the newspaper ''Nidaros'' retained its name. The newspaper was stopped on 17 April 1941 during the

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. After the war it was published as '' Trondheims-Pressen'' from 9 May to 12 May. It started again on 14 May 1945. ''Nidaros'' was among the three initiators to establish a working committee for the stopped newspapers ( no, Arbeidsutvalget for de stansede aviser), along with ''

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'' and '' Dagen''. The newspapers, which had all been stopped during the war, had suffered significant losses because of this, and claimed compensation. Around sixty Norwegian newspapers eventually joined this initiative. In Trondheim, the newspaper situation had changed dramatically over the war years. ''

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'' and ''

'' had continued their publication during the Nazi regime, while ''Nidaros'' and ''

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'' were stopped. Kåre Fasting was chief editor from 1945 to 1950, and

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edited ''Nidaros'' from 1954 to 1957, when ''Nidaros'' ceased to appear. Garbo then issued a weekly newspaper ''Søndagsekspressen'', "loosely affiliated" with ''Nidaros'', from February to August 1957. ''Nidaros'' started again on 28 February 1959. It changed its name to ''Trondheimsavisa'' in February 1989 before ultimately going bankrupt in 1991.

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