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| Type | QuarterlyNewspaper |
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| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | Truls Lie, Trygve Natvig, Erling Bonnevie Hjort, Ivar Evensmo, etc |
| Editor | Truls Lie |
| Founded | 1953 |
| Political alignment | Eco-anarchist orSocial-liberal |
| Headquarters | Oslo,Norway |
| Website | www |
Ny Tid (English:Modern Times Review) is Norway's largest international quarterly review of non-fiction books – up to 50 in each issue. It is currently owned by Ny Tid & Orientering AS.
Ny Tid is headed by the newspaper founderTruls Lie who was formerly the editor-in-chief ofMorgenbladet and editor-in-chief/publisher ofLe Monde diplomatique in Norway.
Ny Tid's predecessor was the weeklyOrientering, which was founded as an independent weekly in January 1953.
The magazine gained notability thanks to the quality, reputation, and success of its writers includingSigurd Evensmo (the first editor-in-chief),Jens Bjørneboe, andJohan Borgen. Evensmo was a member of the Student's Communist Organisation and had been active in the resistance against the Nazis in Norway; Bjørneboe was a self-describedanarcho-nihilist who was at the center of literary life in Norway; and Borgen was an author sent to prison by the Nazis for his writings.
In 1975 Orientering was included in the new Ny Tid. From 1975 until 1998Ny Tid was owned by theSocialist Left Party (SV).
On 24 January 2006 the publishing houseDamm, a part ofEgmont, bought 100 percent ofNy Tid. On 27 January 2006Ny Tid was relaunched as Norway's first news magazine. In January 2008 the magazine was transferred to a new media group, Monitor Medier, which at the same time also purchased the monthlyLe Monde Diplomatique.
Every week an exclusive column is printed, in which writers from free speech-challenged countries are invited to comment and outline. These columnists are:Parvin Ardalan,Nawal El Saadawi,Irshad Manji,Elena Milashina,Katiuska Natera,Martha Roque,Blessing Musariri,Tsering Woeser,Orzala Ashraf Nemat andNatalia Novozhilova. The columns are mostly written in English. The project is called "Voices Without Borders" and is a project in memory ofAnna Politkovskaja, who was aNy Tid columnist from 10 February to 7 October 2006.[1]
Since the relaunch in January 2006, the independent magazine, regularly prints exclusive columns by writers likeNoreena Hertz (Great Britain),Irshad Manji (Canada),Anna Funder (Australia),Shah Muhammad Rais (Afghanistan),Saskia Sassen (USA),Natalia Novozhilova, andAnna Politkovskaya (Russia), the independent journalist assassinated after a series of articles she published about corruption and the KGB under the Putin presidency.
The magazine has a global outlook with most of its articles focusing on current events across the globe. It is published in Norwegian for its print edition and in both English and Norwegian for its online edition. It covers politics, culture, environmental issues, and international affairs. The current editor isDag Herbjørnsrud. The editorial staff is based inOslo, while the correspondents are situated in five continents.
In 2015 Ny Tid was changed to a monthly broadsheet newspaper summer 2015, and also included in the distribution of the daily newspaperKlassekampen making it available to more readers. The main focus is peace&war, migration, climate, new media, and international documentary films and non-fiction books.
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