Aftenposten

Aftenposten
The front page, 6 February 2023
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatCompact
Owner(s)Schibsted (99.99%)
Stiftelsen Tinius (0.01%)[1]
EditorTrine Eilertsen
Founded14 May 1860; 164 years ago (1860-05-14)
LanguageNorwegian
HeadquartersOslo, Norway
ISSN0804-3116
Websitewww.aftenposten.no

Aftenposten (Urban East Norwegian: [ˈɑ̂ftn̩ˌpɔstn̩]; transl. "The Evening Post"; stylized as Aftenpoſten in the masthead) is Norway's largest printed newspaper by circulation. It is based in Oslo. It sold 211,769 daily copies in 2015 (172,029 printed copies according to University of Bergen)[2] and estimated 1.2 million readers.[3] It converted from broadsheet to compact format in March 2005.[4][5] Aftenposten's online edition is at Aftenposten.no. It is considered a newspaper of record for Norway.

Aftenposten is a private company wholly owned by the public company Schibsted ASA.[6] Norway's second largest newspaper, VG, is also owned by Schibsted. Norwegian owners held a 42% of the shares in Schibsted at the end of 2015.[7]

The paper has around 240 employees.[8] Trine Eilertsen was appointed editor-in-chief in 2020.

Aftenposten has correspondents based in Kyiv, Brussels, New York, Moscow and Istanbul (2023).[9]

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  4. ^ Ingrid Brekke (4 May 2013). "Tabloid i form, men ikke i sjel". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 16 January 2014. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
  5. ^ "Norway: leading daily's successful switch to compact". Editors Weblog. 22 March 2005. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 5 February 2015.
  6. ^ Stig A. Nohrstedt; et al. (2000). "From the Persian Gulf to Kosovo — War Journalism and Propaganda" (PDF). European Journal of Communication. 15 (3). Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 December 2015.
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  8. ^ "Aftenposten AS - 890412882 - Oslo - Se Regnskap, Roller og mer". proff.no. Retrieved 11 April 2023.
  9. ^ Njie, Ragnhild Aarø. "Øst-Europa-korrespondent fast ansatt i Aftenposten". kampanje.com (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 11 April 2023.