''Romerikes Blad'' is a
local newspaper
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published in
Lillestrøm
Lillestrøm is a municipality in Viken county. It is located in the traditional district of Romerike. With a population of 85,757 inhabitants, it is the fourth most populated municipality in Viken. It was founded on 1 January 2020 as a merger be ...
,
Norway
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. It covers the
Romerike
Romerike is a traditional district located north-east of Oslo, in what is today south-eastern Norway. It consists of the Viken municipalities Lillestrøm, Lørenskog, Nittedal, Rælingen and Aurskog-Høland in the southern end (Nedre Romerike), ...
district.
History and profile
''Romerikes Blad'' was established by
Martin Julius Halvorsen in 1902 in
Jessheim
Jessheim is a town in the Ullensaker municipality in Akershus of Norway.
History
The railway station with the Jessheim station was built in 1854 as part of the Hovedbanen line from Oslo to Eidsvoll.
The railroad had at the initial construction o ...
under the name ''Akershusingen'', and was affiliated with the
Norwegian Labour Party
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. The name ''Romerikes Blad'' was taken in 1905.
Between 1953 and 1967 it expanded from two to five editions a week. It mainly covered
Ullensaker
Ullensaker is a Municipalities of Norway, municipality in Akershus in Viken (county), Viken Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Districts of Norway, traditional region of Romerike. The administrative centre of the municipality i ...
,
Nannestad
Nannestad is a Municipalities of Norway, municipality in Akershus in Viken (county), Viken Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Districts of Norway, traditional region of Romerike. The administrative centre of the municipality i ...
and
Gjerdrum
Gjerdrum () is a municipality in Akershus in Viken county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Romerike.
Gjerdrum borders the municipalities of Nannestad, Nittedal, and Ullensaker, and Lillestrøm. The administrative centre of the m ...
,
[ although offices at ]Kjeller
Kjeller is a village located near Lillestrøm in the municipality of Lillestrøm, Norway. It is located 25 kilometers north-east of Oslo.
Name
The Norse form of the name was probably ''Tjaldir''. This is then the plural of ''tjald'' n ' tent' ...
were opened in 1974. In 1990 it merged with the larger newspaper '' Akershus Arbeiderblad'', which mainly covered Skedsmo Skedsmo was a municipality in Akershus county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Romerike. The administrative centre of the municipality was the town of Lillestrøm. About one third of the municipal population lived in Lillestrøm. ...
, Rælingen
Rælingen is a village and municipality in Akershus in Viken county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Romerike. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Fjerdingby. Rælingen was separated from the municip ...
, Fet
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, Sørum
Sørum was a municipality in Akershus county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Romerike. The administrative centre of the municipality was the village of Sørumsand. Sørum was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see ...
and Lørenskog
is a Municipalities of Norway, municipality in Akershus in Viken (county), Viken Counties of Norway, county, Norway. A suburb of Oslo, it is part of the Oslo urban area and the Districts of Norway, traditional region of Romerike. The administrati ...
. The two newspapers had shared the same editor-in-chief
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for some time. ''Romerikes Blad'' had been the smaller newspaper before the merger, with a circulation of 10,694 copies in 1983 compared to ''Akershus Arbeiderblad'' which had 24,529 copies.[ Nonetheless, after an initial period under the name ''Akershus/Romerikes Blad'', the name ''Romerikes Blad'' was used.][ The editor-in-chief at the time of the merger was ]Terje Granerud
Terje Granerud (born 29 October 1951) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.
Granerud was born in Nannestad to industrial labourer Alf Granerud (1920–1983) and housewife Karen Marie Hoftvedt (1920–1984). He only has high school educa ...
(1989-2001).
Today, ''Romerikes Blad'' is owned 100% by Amedia
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, like many former Labour-affiliated newspapers. It has a circulation of 37,653 copies of which 36,166 are subscribers.
References
External links
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1902 establishments in Norway
Publications established in 1902
Daily newspapers published in Norway
Norwegian-language newspapers
Mass media in Akershus
Lillestrøm
Labour Party (Norway) newspapers
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