''Sarpsborg Arbeiderblad'' is a local newspaper in

Sarpsborg Sarpsborg ( or ), historically Borg, is a city and municipality in Viken county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Sarpsborg. Sarpsborg is part of the fifth largest urban area in Norway when paired with neigh ...

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

. It is published six days a week. The chief editor is Bernt Frode Lyngstad. It was established in 1929, after the demise of '' Østfold Arbeiderblad'', and was affiliated with the Labour Party. However, the newspaper ultimately became non-partisan. It was stopped between October 1940 and May 1945, during the

German occupation of Norway 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 ...

. It has a circulation of 13,595, of whom 13,345 are subscribers. It is published by the company Sarpsborg Arbeiderblad AS, which is owned 100% by

A-pressen Amedia AS is the second largest media company in Norway (the largest is Schibsted and the third largest is Polaris Media). The company is whole or partial owner of 50 local and regional newspaper with online newspapers and printing presses, a ...

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Official website
1929 establishments in Norway Amedia Labour Party (Norway) newspapers Norwegian-language newspapers Mass media in Østfold Newspapers established in 1929 Sarpsborg {{norway-newspaper-stub