''Brønnøysunds Avis'' is a local print and

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published in

Brønnøysund Brønnøysund () is a List of towns and cities in Norway, town and the administrative centre of Brønnøy Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is also a List of former municipalities of Norway, former municipality within Nordland county. ...

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History and profile

''Brønnøysunds Avis'' was founded in 1920. The paper covers the municipality of

Brønnøy Brønnøy is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the Helgeland region. The administrative centre and commercial centre of the municipality is the town of Brønnøysund. A secondary centre is the village of Hommelstø. Ot ...

Helgeland Helgeland is the most southerly district in Northern Norway. Generally speaking, Helgeland refers to the part of Nordland county that is located south of the Arctic Circle. It is bordered in the north by the Saltfjellet mountains and Svartise ...

region, and vicinity and is owned 69-percent by

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. It has five weekly issues, all days except Sundays and Mondays. It is published in

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and was the first Norwegian newspaper to make an online edition, on 6 March 1995. The circulation of ''Brønnøysunds Avis'' was 3,955 copies in 2012. The newspaper had a circulation of 3,874 copies in 2013.

References

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