''Vísir'' was an Icelandic

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founded in December 1910 by Einar Gunnarsson, originally only distributed in and around

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. In 1967,

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became its editor. In 1975, he left the paper after a conflict with the ownership group of on his editorial policy and founded

Dagblaðið ''Dagblaðið'' (, ) was an Icelandic newspaper founded in 1975 by former employees of Vísir with Jónas Kristjánsson as its first editor. It marked a breakthrough in Icelandic newspaper publication as it was the first major newspaper that was i ...

. On 26 November 1981, Vísir and Dagblaðið merged to form

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