''Kommunal Rapport'' (meaning ''Municipal Report'' in English) is a Norwegian daily news web site and weekly newspaper which covers municipal affairs. The newspaper was established in 1987. In 2011, the media company established an independent subscription based, digital publication at kommunal-rapport.no. The weekly is issued out of

Vika, Oslo Vika is a neighborhood in the Oslo city center in Norway. It is located between the Royal Palace, Oslo, Oslofjord, Aker Brygge, Pipervika, Slottsparken, Oslo City Hall, Oslo Concert Hall and borders on the north with Karl Johans gate, the ma ...

by Kommunal Rapport AS (limited company), which is owned by the

Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities The Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities ( no, KS) is an employers' organisation in Norway. It was founded in 1972 as a merger between the Union of Norwegian Cities (''Norges Byforbund'', founded in 1903) and the Norwegian Ass ...

. Its

editor-in-chief An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies. The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...

since March 2008 is Britt Sofie Hestvik. Kommunal Rapport is a member of The Specialized Press Association in Norway. The newspapers main readers are local politicians and executive officers of the local municipalities and counties of Norway. The newspaper has won several awards for its journalism in Norway. Most notably in 2016, the journalist Vegard Venli was awarded Den store journalistprisen (''The Great Journalism Prize'') for gaining the public access to the registry of shareholders in limited companies in

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, 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 ...

. In 2016, the turnover was app. 30 mill NOK. As of January 2017, the media company employed 18 people, with 14 working on the editorial content.

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