Firda

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Firda
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Type Daily newspaper
Owner(s) Amedia (100%) [1]
Founder(s)Kristian Ulltang
Founded1917;107 years ago (1917)
Language Norwegian
Headquarters Sunnfjord
Circulation 11,972 (2013)
Website Firda

Firda is a Norwegian daily newspaper, published in Sunnfjord, Norway. [2]

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History and profile

Firda was founded in 1917 by Kristian Ulltang, who also was its first editor. The paper was published twice per week in the 1960s. [3] Its frequency was six times per week in the 1990s. [3] Its editor-in-chief is Jan Atle Stang. [4] [5]

In 1999 Firda was the recipient of the European Newspaper Award in the category of local newspaper. [6]

At the beginning of the 1960s the circulation of Firda was about 6,000 copies. [3] In the 1990s it had a circulation of about 15,000 copies, [3] [7] making it the major newspaper in Vestland. [3] In 2009 its circulation was 13,500 copies. [8] The 2013 circulation of the paper was 11,972 copies. [9]

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References

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  2. Petra Broomans; Ester Jiresch (2011). The Invasion of Books in Peripheral Literary Fields: Transmitting Preferences and Images in Media, Networks and Translation. Barkhuis. p. 56. ISBN   978-94-91431-06-7.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Sigurd Høst (1999). "Newspaper Growth in the Television Era. The Norwegian Experience" (PDF). Nordicom Review. 1 (1). Retrieved 31 December 2014.
  4. "Firda". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 17 September 2011.
  5. Terje Eggum (2010). "Firda". In Flo, Idar (ed.). Norske aviser fra A til Å. Norsk presses historie 1660–2010 (in Norwegian). Vol. 4. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget. p. 104. ISBN   978-82-15-01604-7.
  6. "DIE WELT als Europas schönste Tageszeitung ausgezeichnet". Die Welt. 11 November 1999. Retrieved 27 May 2016.
  7. The Nordic Languages. Walter de Gruyter. 1 January 2005. p. 2044. ISBN   978-3-11-019706-8.
  8. Eli Skogerbø; Marte Winsvold (2011). "Audiences on the move? Use and assessment of local print and online newspapers" (PDF). European Journal of Communication. 26 (3): 218. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 April 2012. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
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