''Nybrott'' (lit. "New Clearing") was a

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newspaper published in

Larvik Larvik () is a List of cities in Norway, town and Municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestfold in Vestfold og Telemark Counties of Norway, county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Larvik. The municipality ...

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county,

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History and profile

''Nybrot'' was started on 9 September 1911 as a Labour Party newspaper. It was first weekly, was then published twice a week, then daily from 1915. On 10 January 1921 it was merged with ''

Bratsberg-Demokraten ''Bratsberg-Demokraten'' ("The Bratsberg Democrat") was a Norwegian newspaper, published in Skien in Telemark county. From 1924 to 1929 it was named ''Telemark Kommunistblad''. ''Bratsberg-Demokraten'' was started on 7 April 1908, as the Labour Pa ...

'' to form ''Folkets Dagblad'', a regional newspaper for both Telemark and

, but the merger was reversed after 19 May 1922. ''Nybrot'' modernized its name to ''Nybrott'' in 1926. During the

occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany The occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany during the Second World War began on 9 April 1940 after Operation Weserübung. Conventional armed resistance to the German invasion ended on 10 June 1940, and Nazi Germany controlled Norway until the ...

, ''Nybrott'' was again merged, this time with ''

Østlands-Posten ''Østlands-Posten'' is a local newspaper published in Larvik, Norway. It covers Larvik and Lardal. It was established in 1881. It has a circulation of 14,284, of whom 13,888 are subscribers. 1896-1995 ''Østlands-Posten'' was owned by the Næss ...

'' by decree of the Nazi authorities. The new newspaper was called '' Larvik Dagblad'' and lasted from 1 July 1943 to 31 May 1945, three weeks after the end of war and occupation. From 1970

Arne Tumyr Arne Tumyr (6 March 1933 – 17 February 2023) was a Norwegian journalist, newspaper editor, politician and leader of Stop Islamisation of Norway. Career and activism Tumyr grew up in Ask in Askøy, from where he moved in 1950. He was educated ...

was the editor. From 1971 it was a morning newspaper, and Tumyr also "tabloidized" the journalism of newspaper, although the tabloid format was not adopted until 1983. From the same year it rid itself of the Labour Party connection. It had struggled financially despite help from the labour movement, but did not fare better on its own and went defunct after the last issue on 18 August 1984.

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