''Porsgrunns Dagblad'' is a Norwegian newspaper, published in

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county, Norway.

History and profile

''Porsgrunds Dagblad'' was started on 1 December 1914, and later modernized its name. The first editor Daniel H. Grini was an experienced press worker, and came from ''

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'' in the neighboring city. He made ''Porsgrunds Dagblad'' into a local newspaper. In a city where the liberal newspapers '' Porsgrunds Blad'' and '' Porsgrunds Tidende'' had struggled, and the conservative newspaper ''

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'' was well established, ''Porsgrunds Dagblad'' became the city's new organ for the Liberal Party. It bought both '' Breviksposten'' in 1916 and later '' Langesunds Blad'' and '' Skiens Dagblad''. It prevailed over ''Grenmar'', which went defunct in 1954, but faced tougher competition from the Skien-based regional newspapers ''Varden'' and ''

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''. It struggled financially, and in 1983 its Saturday edition was discontinued. It was owned by

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for a period, but since 1999 it has been owned by ''

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'' (and

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). The Saturday edition was re-established in 2009, but the Monday edition was removed at the same time. Thus it is published five days a week. Since 2004 it is a morning newspaper.

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and

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started their careers in ''Porsgrunns Dagblad'', and the newspaper also printed feuilletons which later became books by

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and

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. The current editor is Erik Enger.

References

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