''Trønder-Avisa'' is a regional
newspaper
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in
Norway
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. It is printed in the town of
Steinkjer
or is a municipality in Trøndelag Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Innherad Districts of Norway, region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Steinkjer (town), town of Steinkjer which is located on the inne ...
in
Trøndelag
Trøndelag (; or is a county and coextensive with the Trøndelag region (also known as ''Midt-Norge'' or ''Midt-Noreg,'' "Mid-Norway") in the central part of Norway. It was created in 1687, then named Trondhjem County (); in 1804 the county was ...
county. The newspaper was founded as a union of ''
Nord-Trøndelag
Nord-Trøndelag (; "North Trøndelag") was a counties of Norway, county constituting the northern part of the present-day Trøndelag county in Norway. It bordered the old Sør-Trøndelag ("South Trøndelag") county as well as the county of Nordl ...
'' (founded 1919) and ''
Inntrøndelagen'' (founded 1897) after both newspapers' headquarters were bombed during the
Second World War
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. These two papers were originally connected to the Norwegian
Centre Party and the
Liberal Party (Inntrøndelagen). This connection still exists to some extent by ownership. The newspaper is published by a company with the same name, Trønder-Avisa Group.
The company also owns the local papers ''
Inderøyningen'', ''
Steinkjer-Avisa'', ''
Lokalavisa Verran-Namdalseid'', ''
Ytringen'' and ''
Snåsningen''.
See also
*
List of Norwegian newspapers
The number of national daily newspapers in Norway was 96 in 1950, whereas it was 83 in 1965. A total of 191 newspapers was published in 1969. There were 221 newspapers in the country in 1996. The number of the newspaper was 233 in the country in 1 ...
References
External links
Official website
1940 establishments in Norway
Newspapers published in Norway
Mass media in Trøndelag
Norwegian-language newspapers
Newspapers established in 1940
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