''Romsdalsposten'' was a Norwegian newspaper, published in Kristiansund in

Møre og Romsdal Møre og Romsdal (; en, Møre and Romsdal) is a county in the northernmost part of Western Norway. It borders the counties of Trøndelag, Innlandet, and Vestland. The county administration is located in the town of Molde, while Ålesund is the ...

. ''Romsdalsposten'' was started on 5 January 1876, and issued by printer John Johnsen the first fifty years. The first editor was N. T. Holme. Among its later editors were Jonas Hestnes from 1891 to 1896 and

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from 1927 to 1933. In the inter-war period it had a circulation of around 8,000. From 1936 to the 1960s Aksel Hoel was the editor, except for some years during the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany when John Johnsen Jr. was a Nazi-installed editor. From 31 May 1986 the newspaper changed its name to ''Nordmørsposten'', and was owned by ''

Dagbladet ''Dagbladet'' (lit.: ''The Daily Magazine'') is one of Norway's largest newspapers and is published in the tabloid format. It has 1,400,000 daily readers on mobile, web and paper. Traditionally ''Dagbladet'' is considered the main liberal newsp ...

''. It ceased to appear after its last issue on 27 October 1990, after ''Dagbladet'' had reached a mutual understanding with

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. A-pressen owned the competing newspaper ''

Tidens Krav ''Tidens Krav'' (''TK'') English: ''The Time's Demands'' is a local newspaper published in Kristiansund, Norway. It was founded in 1906, is published Tuesday through Saturday, and reports news from Nordmøre. The newspaper owned the local televis ...

'', which had prevailed in Kristiansund's newspaper market.

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