Verdens Gang

Verdens Gang
Front page from 8 October 2006. Featured in the cover story is Austrian kidnap victim Natascha Kampusch.
TypeDaily newspaper
+ online edition
FormatTabloid
Owner(s)Schibsted
EditorGard Steiro
Founded1945; 79 years ago (1945)
Political alignmentNone
HeadquartersAkersgata 55, Oslo, Norway
Websitewww.vg.no

Verdens Gang ("The course of the world"), generally known under the abbreviation VG, is a Norwegian tabloid newspaper. In 2016, circulation numbers stood at 93,883, declining from a peak circulation of 390,510 in 2002. Nevertheless, VG is the most-read online newspaper in Norway, with about 2 million daily readers.[1]

Verdens Gang AS is a private company wholly owned by the public company Schibsted ASA.[2]

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  2. ^ Stig A. Nohrstedt; et al. (2000). "From the Persian Gulf to Kosovo — War Journalism and Propaganda" (PDF). European Journal of Communication. 15 (3). Retrieved 8 January 2015.