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Firda
Firda Media - Avishuset Firda.jpg
TypeDaily newspaper
Founder(s)Kristian Ulltang
Founded1917; 107 years ago (1917)
LanguageNorwegian
HeadquartersSunnfjord
Circulation11,972 (2013)
WebsiteFirda

Firda is a Norwegian daily newspaper, published in Sunnfjord, Norway.[1]

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.[2] Its frequency was six times per week in the 1990s.[2] Its editor-in-chief is Jan Atle Stang.[3][4]

In 1999 Firda was the recipient of the European Newspaper Award in the category of local newspaper.[5]

At the beginning of the 1960s the circulation of Firda was about 6,000 copies.[2] In the 1990s it had a circulation of about 15,000 copies,[2][6] making it the major newspaper in Vestland.[2] In 2009 its circulation was 13,500 copies.[7] The 2013 circulation of the paper was 11,972 copies.[8]

References

  1. 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. https://books.google.com/books?id=vTyuDYUzXngC&pg=PA56. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Sigurd Høst (1999). "Newspaper Growth in the Television Era. The Norwegian Experience". Nordicom Review 1 (1). http://www.nordicom.gu.se/sites/default/files/kapitel-pdf/31_host.pdf. Retrieved 31 December 2014. 
  3. "Firda" (in Norwegian). Store norske leksikon. Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. http://www.snl.no/Firda. Retrieved 17 September 2011. 
  4. Terje Eggum (2010). "Firda". in Flo, Idar (in Norwegian). Norske aviser fra A til Å. Norsk presses historie 1660–2010. 4. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget. p. 104. ISBN 978-82-15-01604-7. 
  5. "DIE WELT als Europas schönste Tageszeitung ausgezeichnet". Die Welt. 11 November 1999. https://www.welt.de/print-welt/article590024/DIE-WELT-als-Europas-schoenste-Tageszeitung-ausgezeichnet.html. Retrieved 27 May 2016. 
  6. The Nordic Languages. Walter de Gruyter. 1 January 2005. p. 2044. ISBN 978-3-11-019706-8. https://books.google.com/books?id=Z17C7s3r_nwC&pg=PA2044. 
  7. Eli Skogerbø; Marte Winsvold (2011). "Audiences on the move? Use and assessment of local print and online newspapers". European Journal of Communication 26 (3): 218. http://www.usc.es/posgrao/posteoria/profesorado/lopez/2012/European_Journal_of_Communication-2011-Skogerb_-214-29.p_European_Journal_of_Communication-2011-Skogerb_-214-29.pdf. Retrieved 24 January 2015. 
  8. "Newspaper circulation 2013". Media Norway. http://medienorge.uib.no/english/?cat=statistikk&medium=avis&queryID=190. Retrieved 5 December 2014. 

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