 | |
 | |
| Type | Dailynewspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | Aller Media (99%), Dagbladets Stiftelse (1%)[1] |
| Editor | John Arne Markussen |
| Founded | 2 January 1869; 156 years ago (1869-01-02) |
| Political alignment | FormerlyLiberal Party |
| Language | Norwegian |
| Headquarters | Hasle, Oslo |
| Country | Norway |
| ISSN | 0807-2043 |
| Website | www |
Dagbladet (English:The Daily Magazine) is one of Norway's largest newspapers. It is published in thetabloid format. It has[timeframe?] 1,400,000 daily readers on mobile, web and paper.Dagbladet is considered the main liberal newspaper of Norway, with a generally liberal progressive editorial outlook, associated with Scandinaviancultural radicalism.[citation needed]
The paper edition had a circulation of 46,250 copies in 2016, down from a peak of 228,834 in 1994.[2] The editor-in-chief isFrode Hansen, the political editor is Lars Helle, the news editor is Jan Thomas Holmlund.[3][4]
Dagbladet is published six days a week. It includes the magazine supplementMagasinet every Saturday. Part of the dailytabloid is available atDagbladet.no, and more articles can be accessed through apaywall. The daily readership ofDagbladet's onlinetabloid was 1.24 million in 2016.[5] Dagbladet online has received widespread criticism for their unprecedented use of clickbait headlines. This in turn has been speculated to be a reason why their reach has seen a regression in recent years.[6][7]
Dagbladet was founded in 1869 byAnthon Bang.Hagbard Emanuel Berner served as its first editor in chief and the first issue was published on 2 January 1869. From 1884 to 1977, the newspaper was affiliated to theLiberal party (Venstre).[8] Since 1977, it has officially been politically neutral, though it has kept its position as a liberal newspaper, also incorporating someculturally radical stands in issues like the language struggle, church policies,feminism,intimate relationship, criminal care, etc. The newspaper was in 1972 against Norway joining theEU, but had changed to pro in 1994.[9] During theGerman occupation of Norway the editor ofDagbladet,Einar Skavlan, was arrested in April 1942 due to the paper's liberal stance and loyalty to the King.[10]
Dagbladet has played an important role in development of new editorial products in Norway. In 1990, the newspaper was the first in Norway to publish a Sunday edition in more than 70 years, and in 1995, it became the first of the major Norwegian newspapers with an online edition. In 2007 it had a circulation of 204,850 copies.[11] The actual first newspaper was a regional paper calledBrønnøysunds Avis. Over the past few years,Dagbladet has had success with the Saturday supplementMagasinet, which reaches 25.3% of the adult population of Norway.[12]
Due to the declining of daily circulation, the newspaper has reduced the number of workers the last couple of years by a few hundred. Because of this, the newspaper focused more on "simpler news", but recent years, the newspaper has chosen an editorial direction on hard news.[citation needed]
Dagbladet was previously owned by the privately held company Berner Gruppen.Jens P. Heyerdahl was the largest owner and had effective control through several different companies. DB Medialab AS also owned 50% of the Norwegianweb portal andISP start.no and ran the online communityBlink from 2002 to 2011.[13]
In June 2013,Dagbladet with online products was sold from Berner Gruppen toAller Media for reportedly about 300 millionNorwegian kroner.[14] As of 2016, 99% of the shares of Dagbladet AS are formally owned by Berner Media Holding AS, which in turn is 100% owned by Aller Media. The remaining 1% of Dagbladet AS is owned by the foundation Dagbladets Stiftelse.[15]
Dagbladet operates a number of technological websites. The online community Blink was large for a period in the 2000s, before it was closed down. Dagbladet also operates Start.no and 123spill.no, but both have been inactive since 2016. Previously, Dagbladet also had the largest gaming website in the Nordic region, PressFire.no, but the website was discontinued by the media house in 2016.[16] In 2018, Dagbladet started a gaming channel on YouTube, Dagbladet Spill, but this was closed down after a year.[17]
Alexandra Beverfjord was the editor-in-chief from 2018 to 2023.[18]
The online edition ofDagbladet was launched on 8 March 1995[19] followingBrønnøysunds Avis, a local newspaper.[20] Dagbladet.no has a readership of nearly 1,2 million per day, which makes it amongst Europe's most successful web newspapers when measured against both population and readership of mother newspaper.[citation needed]
In 1988,Dagbladet was criticised for the aggressive use of photographs of grieving next-of-kin in theaftermath of the Flight 710 air-disaster. This led to a self-imposed change of practice within the Norwegian press regarding the handling of such incidents.
On 10 November 1989, the day after thefall of the Berlin wall,Dagbladet made no reference to the fall on its front page and instead featured the headline "Let the children swear", a quote from child psychologistMagne Raundalen. This caused criticism and ridicule of the newspaper for being overly tabloid.[21]
Former Minister of Health,Tore Tønne, committed suicide allegedly followingDagbladet's investigations over alleged economic improprieties committed after the conclusion of his term in the Norwegian cabinet.Dagbladet was criticized by the Norwegian Press Association. The paper reprinted the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten's 12Muhammad Cartoons in 2005.[22]
In May 2011,Dagbladet lost alibel case inOslo District Court against ambulance driver Erik Schjenken for printing factual errors about theParamedics incident in Oslo 2007, and was ordered to pay a compensation of 1 millionNkr. In 2013, Dagbladet lost the appeal case inBorgarting Court of Appeal, but the legal ruling was slightly changed and the compensation reduced to 200,000 Nkr.[23] In May 2013, Dagbladet appealed the case to theSupreme Court of Norway.[24]
The newspaper encountered criticism over a cartoon published in November 2011 that equated theHolocaust with the situation in theGaza Strip.[citation needed] In 2013, Abraham Cooper of theSimon Wiesenthal Center, Jewish communities, and human rights organizations claimed that a cartoon depicting the Jewish tradition ofcircumcision as barbaric wasantisemitic.[25] Editor of the culture-and-opinion sections inDagbladet Geir Ramnefjell dismissed the criticism of the 2013 drawing, stating that it was an "innocent ridicule of religious practice and nothing more than that".[26] Dagbladet also defended the caricature in an editorial 3 June 2013. TheNorwegian Centre Against Racism and the Mosaic community in Norway filed a complaint about the caricature to theNorwegian Press Complaints Commission, which did not findDagbladet at fault.[27][28]
Numbers from the Norwegian Media Businesses' Association,Mediebedriftenes Landsforening:
