''Vísir.is'' is an
Iceland
Iceland ( is, Ísland; ) is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean and in the Arctic Ocean. Iceland is the most sparsely populated country in Europe. Iceland's capital and largest city is Reykjavík, which (along with its s ...
ic
online newspaper. It was founded in 1998 by Frjáls fjölmiðlun ehf and officially opened on 1 April the same year. It originally published news from the newspapers ''
Dagblaðið Vísir
''DV'' (''Dagblaðið Vísir'') is an online newspaper in Iceland published by Torg ehf. It came into existence as a daily newspaper in 1981 when two formerly independent newspapers, Vísir and Dagblaðið, merged.
Early on it was one of the l ...
'', ''
Viðskiptablaðið'' and ''Dagur''. On 1 December 2017 it was bought by
Fjarskipti hf. (later
Sýn) along with
Stöð 2 and
Bylgjan
Bylgjan (''The Wave'') is an Icelandic radio station, run by the media company Sýn. Launched in 1986, it was the first privately owned radio station in Iceland. Bylgjan is broadcast throughout the country from a network of FM transmitters (98. ...
from
365 miðlar.
According to
Gallup, it was the second-most popular website in Iceland as of February 2021.
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Icelandic news websites
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