''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. The town has a population (2024) of 5,093 and a population density of . It is also a List of for ...

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History and profile

''Brønnøysunds Avis'' was founded in 1920. The paper covers

Brønnøy Municipality Brønnøy is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Nordland Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Helgeland Districts of Norway, region. The administrative centre and commercial centre of the municipality is the town ...

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region, and vicinity and is owned 69-percent by Polaris Media. 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.

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