is a regional

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based in

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, Norway. It covers the southernmost part of the country, (

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and

Vest-Agder Vest-Agder (; "West Agder") was one of 18 counties (''fylker'') in Norway from 1 January 1919 to 31 December 2019, after it was merged with Aust-Agder to form Agder county. In 2016, there were 182,701 inhabitants, around 3.5% of the total popul ...

), focusing especially on the area between

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and

Lillesand Lillesand () is municipality in Agder county, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Sørlandet. The administrative center of the municipality is the town of Lillesand. Some of the larger villages in Lillesand municipality include ...

(west and east of Kristiansand).

History and profile

was established by Petrus Emilius Johanssen and Ole Christian Tangen in 1875. It is owned by the Norwegian based Schibsted ASA and has its headquarters in

. Eivind Ljøstad was appointed

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of the paper in 2010. It was which first reported on 29 December 1999 the relationship of

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with his future wife, Mette-Marit. On 16 September 2006 was switched from

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. On 14 May 2012, the newspaper introduced

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for their online site—only subscribers can access the online newspaper in full.

Circulation

has 235 employees and has 116,000 daily readers. It is published six days per week. The circulation of was 45,000 copies in 2003. Confirmed circulation figures by Mediebedriftenes Landsforening (Newspaper Publishers' Association), Norway: * 2006: 42,642 * 2007: 41,326 * 2008: 40,729 * 2009: 39,454 * 2010: 37,934 * 2012: 35,441 * 2014: 34,065 * 2015: 32,739

Notes

External links

www.fvn.noSchibsted website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Faedrelandsvennen 1875 establishments in Norway Mass media in Kristiansand Daily newspapers published in Norway Norwegian-language newspapers Newspapers established in 1875