''Stavanger Aftenblad'' () (lit: ''Stavanger Evening Paper'') or simply ''Aftenbladet'' is a daily
newspaper
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Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports a ...
based in
Stavanger
Stavanger (, , American English, US usually , ) is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Norway. It is the fourth largest city and third largest metropolitan area in Norway (through conurbation with neighboring Sandnes) and the a ...
,
Norway
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, and owned by
Schibsted Media Group.
Norwegian owners held 42 percent of the shares in Schibsted at the end of 2015. ''Stavanger Aftenblad'' is thus majority foreign-owned.
History and profile
''Stavanger Aftenblad'' was founded in 1893
by the priest
Lars Oftedal
Lars Oftedal (3 January 1877 – 19 April 1932) was a Norwegian attorney and newspaper editor.
Biography
Oftedal was born in Stavanger in Rogaland, Norway. He was the son of parish priest Lars Oftedal (1838–1900) and his wife Olava Ma ...
, and was for a long period a publication for the
Norwegian Liberal Party
The Liberal Party ( no, Venstre, lit=Left, V; se, Gurutbellodat) is a centrist political party in Norway. It was founded in 1884 and it is the oldest political party in Norway. It is positioned in the centre on the political spectrum, and it is ...
. The paper is based in Stavanger
[ and is owned by the Media Norge, a subsidiary of the ]Schibsted
Schibsted Media Group is an international media group. The company has its headquarters in Oslo, Norway, and is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange. The CEO is Kristin Skogen Lund.
In 2019, Schibsted spun off the majority of their online marketplac ...
company.editor-in-chief
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The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...
is Kjersti Sortland.
The online version of ''Stavanger Aftenblad'' had an English news service, aimed at the English speaking foreign community in Norway who were not fluent in the language, and international audiences interested in Norway. The English service closed in January 2009 due to the then-ongoing financial crisis
A financial crisis is any of a broad variety of situations in which some financial assets suddenly lose a large part of their nominal value. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, many financial crises were associated with banking panics, and man ...
.
The circulation of ''Stavanger Aftenblad'' was 70,000 copies in 2003. The paper had a circulation of 68,186 copies in 2005.[ Its circulation was 65,500 copies in 2009.]
See also
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1893 establishments in Norway
Publications established in 1893
Daily newspapers published in Norway
Norwegian-language newspapers
Mass media in Stavanger