''Ny Tid'' (English: ''Modern Times Review'') is Norway's largest international quarterly review of non-fiction books – up to 50 in each issue. It is currently owned by Ny Tid & Orientering AS. ''Ny Tid'' is headed by the newspaper founder

Truls Lie ''Ny Tid'' (English: ''Modern Times Review'') is Norway's largest international quarterly review of non-fiction books – up to 50 in each issue. It is currently owned by Ny Tid & Orientering AS. ''Ny Tid'' is headed by the newspaper founder Tr ...

who was formerly the editor-in-chief of

Morgenbladet ''Morgenbladet'' is a Norwegian weekly, newspaper, covering politics, culture and science. History ''Morgenbladet'' was founded in 1819 by the book printer Niels Wulfsberg. The paper is the country's first daily newspaper; however, Adresseavi ...

and editor-in-chief/publisher of

Le Monde diplomatique ''Le Monde diplomatique'' (meaning "The Diplomatic World" in French) is a French monthly newspaper offering analysis and opinion on politics, culture, and current affairs. The publication is owned by Le Monde diplomatique SA, a subsidiary com ...

in Norway

History

Political Past

''Ny Tids predecessor was the weekly ''

Orientering ''Orientering'' was a Norway, Norwegian newspaper which was initially published in December 1952 as an alternative voice. It was absorbed into ''Ny Tid'' in 1975. There were many reasons for establishing the newspaper, but the most important was ...

'', which was founded as an independent weekly in January 1953. The magazine gained notability thanks to the quality, reputation, and success of its writers including

Sigurd Evensmo Sigurd Evensmo (14 February 1912 – 17 October 1978) was a Norwegian author and journalist.

(the first editor-in-chief),

Jens Bjørneboe Jens Ingvald Bjørneboe (9 October 1920 – 9 May 1976) was a Norwegian writer whose work spanned a number of literary formats. He was also a painter and a Waldorf school teacher. Bjørneboe was a harsh and eloquent critic of Norwegian society an ...

, and

Johan Borgen Johan Collett Müller Borgen (28 April 1902 – 16 October 1979) was a Norwegian writer, journalist and critic. His best-known work is the novel ''Lillelord'' for which he was awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature in 1955. He was ...

. Evensmo was a member of the Student's Communist Organisation and had been active in the resistance against the Nazis in Norway; Bjørneboe was a self-described

anarcho-nihilist The Russian nihilist movementOccasionally, ''nihilism'' will be capitalized when referring to the Russian movement though this is not ubiquitous nor does it correspond with Russian usage. was a philosophical, cultural, and revolutionary move ...

who was at the center of literary life in Norway; and Borgen was an author sent to prison by the Nazis for his writings. In 1975 Orientering was included in the new Ny Tid. From 1975 until 1998 ''Ny Tid'' was owned by the Socialist Left Party (SV). On 24 January 2006 the publishing house Damm, a part of Egmont, bought 100 percent of ''Ny Tid''. On 27 January 2006 ''Ny Tid'' was relaunched as Norway's first news magazine. In January 2008 the magazine was transferred to a new media group, Monitor Medier, which at the same time also purchased the monthly ''

Le Monde Diplomatique ''Le Monde diplomatique'' (meaning "The Diplomatic World" in French) is a French monthly newspaper offering analysis and opinion on politics, culture, and current affairs. The publication is owned by Le Monde diplomatique SA, a subsidiary com ...

''.

Voices Without Borders

Every week an exclusive column is printed, in which writers from free speech-challenged countries are invited to comment and outline. These columnists are:

Parvin Ardalan Parvin Ardalan ( fa, پروین اردلان; born 1967 in Tehran) with a Kurdish background, although not a Kurdish speaker, is a leading Iranian women's rights activist, writer and journalist. She was awarded the Olof Palme Prize in 2007 for he ...

Nawal El Saadawi Nawal El Saadawi ( ar, نوال السعداوي, , 22 October 1931 – 21 March 2021) was an Egyptian feminist writer, activist and physician. She wrote many books on the subject of women in Islam, paying particular attention to the practice of ...

Irshad Manji Irshad Manji (born 1968) is a Ugandan-born Canadian educator. She is the author of ''The Trouble with Islam Today'' (2004) and ''Allah, Liberty and Love'' (2011), both of which have been banned in several Muslim countries. She also produced a PB ...

Elena Milashina Elena Milashina (Russian: Милашина, Елена; born 1978) is a Russian investigative journalist for '' Novaya Gazeta.'' In October 2009, she was awarded Human Rights Watch's Alison Des Forges Award for Extraordinary Activism. Biography ...

Katiuska Natera Katusha or Katyusha is a diminutive of the Russian name Ekaterina or Yekaterina, the Russian form of Katherine or Catherine. Katusha or Katyusha may refer to: Military use *Katyusha rocket launcher, Soviet rocket launcher of World War II, named af ...

Martha Roque Martha (Hebrew language, Hebrew: מָרְתָא‎) is a Bible, biblical figure described in the Gospels of Gospel of Luke, Luke and Gospel of John, John. Together with her siblings Lazarus of Bethany, Lazarus and Mary of Bethany, she is describe ...

Blessing Musariri In religion, a blessing (also used to refer to bestowing of such) is the impartation of something with grace, holiness, spiritual redemption, or divine will. Etymology and Germanic paganism The modern English language term ''bless'' likely ...

Tsering Woeser Tsering Woeser (also written Öser; ; , Han name Chéng Wénsà 程文萨; born 1966) is a Tibetan writer, activist, blogger, poet and essayist. Biography Woeser, a quarter Han Chinese and three quarters Tibetan, was born in Lhasa. Her grandfathe ...

Orzala Ashraf Nemat Orzala Ashraf Nemat is an Afghan scholar and civil society activist. She established the ''Women and Youth Leadership Centre'' in 2012. Orzala got her Phd from School of SOAS, University of London in Law and Political Science. During Afghanistan ...

and

Natalia Novozhilova Natalia may refer to: People * Natalia (given name), list of people with this name * Natalia (Belgian singer) (born 1980) * Natalia (Greek singer) (born 1983) * Natalia (Spanish singer) (born 1982) Music and film * ''Natalia'' (film), a 198 ...

. The columns are mostly written in English. The project is called "Voices Without Borders" and is a project in memory of

Anna Politkovskaja Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya (;, ; uk, Ганна Степанівна Політковська , 30 August 1958 – 7 October 2006) was a Russian journalist and human rights activist, who reported on political events in Russia, in partic ...

, who was a ''Ny Tid'' columnist from 10 February to 7 October 2006.Ny Tid International : Ny Tid
, Voices Without Borders

Content and Style

Since the relaunch in January 2006, the independent magazine, regularly prints exclusive columns by writers like

Noreena Hertz Noreena Hertz (born 24 September 1967) is an English academic, economist and author, and has hosted her show, "MegaHertz: London Calling," on Sirius XM's Insight channel since 28 August 2017. She has been Honorary Professor at the Institute for ...

(Great Britain),

(Canada),

Anna Funder Anna Funder (born 1966) is an Australian author. She is the author of ''Stasiland'' and '' All That I Am'' and the novella ''The Girl With the Dogs''. Life Funder went to primary school in Melbourne and Paris; she attended Star of the Sea Coll ...

(Australia), Shah Muhammad Rais (Afghanistan),

Saskia Sassen Saskia Sassen (born January 5, 1947) is a Dutch-American sociologist noted for her analyses of globalization and international human migration. She is Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University in New York City, and Centennial ...

(USA),

, and

Anna Politkovskaya Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya (;, ; uk, Ганна Степанівна Політковська , 30 August 1958 – 7 October 2006) was a Russian journalist and human rights activist, who reported on political events in Russia, in partic ...

(Russia), the independent journalist assassinated after a series of articles she published about corruption and the KGB under the Putin presidency. The magazine has a global outlook with most of its articles focusing on current events across the globe. It is published in Norwegian for its print edition and in both English and Norwegian for its online edition. It covers politics, culture, environmental issues, and international affairs. The current editor is

Dag Herbjørnsrud Dag Herbjørnsrud (born 1971) is a historian of ideas, author, a former editor-in-chief, and a founder of Center for Global and Comparative History of Ideas ( Senter for global og komparativ idéhistorie, SGOKI) in Oslo. His writings have been publ ...

. The editorial staff is based in

Oslo Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of ...

, while the correspondents are situated in five continents. In 2015 Ny Tid was changed to a monthly broadsheet newspaper summer 2015, and also included in the distribution of the daily newspaper

Klassekampen ''Klassekampen'' ( en, The Class Struggle) is a Norwegian daily newspaper. It describes itself as "the newspaper of the Left." The paper's net circulation is 34,000 (2021), and it has around 111,000 daily readers on paper (160,000 on Saturdays). ...

making it available to more readers. The main focus is peace&war, migration, climate, new media, and international documentary films and non-fiction books.

Editors

2015–present *

2008–2015 * Martine Aurdal 2006–2008 *

2005–2006 *Anders Horn 2001–2005 * Anne Hege Simonsen 1998–2001 *Runar I. Malkenes 1995–1998 *Turid Grønlund 1994–1995 *Gunnar Ringheim 1991–1994 *Bernt Eggen 1989–1991 *

Finn Gustavsen Finn Gustavsen (22 April 1926 in Drammen – 20 July 2005) was a Norwegian socialist politician active from 1945 to the late 1970s. He was noted for his uncompromising style and willingness to take contrarian stands. Gustavsen was born into a mi ...

1986–1989 *

Ingolf Håkon Teigene Ingolf Håkon Teigene (10 April 1949 – 12 June 2007) was a Norwegian journalist. Teigene hailed from Hareid. He started his career as a journalist, and was editor-in-chief of ''Ny Tid'' from 1982 to 1986, at that time a newspaper owned by the ...

1982–1986 * Steinar Hansson 1979–1982 *Audgunn Oltedal 1975–1979

Circulation

''As a newspaper:'' * 1979: 16267 * 1980: 15117 * 1981: 15662 * 1982: 15474 * 1983: 14722 * 1984: 14945 * 1985: 13482 * 1986: 12659 * 1987: 10877 * 1988: 9803 * 1989: 9071 * 1990: 8021 * 1991: 8212 * 1992: 8155 * 1993: - * 1994: 6950 * 1995: 5704 * 1996: 5593 * 1997: 4722 * 1998: 4772 * 1999: 4095 * 2000: 3939 * 2001: 4599 * 2002: 4834 * 2003: 4519 * 2004: 4199 * 2005: 4320 ''As a magazine:'' * 2006: 9258 * 2007: 7671 * 2008: 4811 * 2009: 4774 * 2015: 35 000 (included in

Notes

External links

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International site
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