''Sermitsiaq'' is one of two national newspapers in
Greenland
Greenland is an autonomous territory in the Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark. It is by far the largest geographically of three constituent parts of the kingdom; the other two are metropolitan Denmark and the Faroe Islands. Citizens of Greenlan ...
.
It is named after the mountain
Sermitsiaq.
The newspaper was published for the first time May 21, 1958, as a
Kalaallisut-language alternative to the
Danish-language newspaper ''Mikken''. The two magazines were printed separately, with Mikken on Saturdays and Sermitsiaq on Mondays for about six months, until Mikken was published for the last time on 22 November the same year. ''Sermitsiaq'' was first printed in both Danish and Kalaallisut the week before ''Mikken'' closed down.
''Sermitsiaq'' was a local newspaper distributed only in
Nuuk
Nuuk (; , formerly ) is the capital and most populous city of Greenland, an autonomous territory in the Kingdom of Denmark. Nuuk is the seat of government and the territory's largest cultural and economic center. It is also the seat of gove ...
city until around 1980 when the newspaper became national. The newspaper became increasingly political in the period around 1980, since Greenland was granted
home rule
Home rule is the government of a colony, dependent country, or region by its own citizens. It is thus the power of a part (administrative division) of a state or an external dependent country to exercise such of the state's powers of governan ...
in 1979.
The newspaper is published every Friday, while the online version is updated several times daily.
In 2010 ''Sermitsiaq'' merged with ''
Atuagagdliutit/Grønlandsposten'' (''AG''), the other Greenlandic newspaper. Both papers' websites now redirect to the combined Sermitsiaq.AG website.
References
External links
sermitsiaq.ag(in Kalaallisut and Danish)
Newspapers published in Greenland
Newspapers established in 1958
Weekly newspapers
Companies based in Nuuk
1958 establishments in Greenland
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