Budstikka, prior to 2004 known as Asker og Bærum Budstikke, is a daily local newspaper

Newspaper

A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...

 published out of Billingstad

Billingstad

Billingstad is a village in Asker municipality, Akershus county, Norway. It is close to the border to Bærum and Vestmarka. It has 2,349 residents ....

 in Asker

Asker

Asker is a municipality in Akershus county, Norway. It is part of the Viken traditional region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Asker. The municipality is a suburb of Oslo, the national capital...

, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. It covers the municipalities of Asker and Bærum

Bærum

is a municipality in Akershus county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Sandvika. Bærum was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838. A suburb of Oslo, Bærum is located on the west coast of the city....

, and is the only newspaper issued in the area.

History

The newspaper was founded in 1898 by book printer Jørgen Chr. Kanitz. Its political alignment was with the Conservative Party

Conservative Party of Norway

The Conservative Party is a Norwegian political party. The current leader is Erna Solberg. The party was since the 1920s consistently the second largest party in Norway, but has been surpassed by the growth of the Progress Party in the late 1990s and 2000s...

. Today it claims an "independent conservative" editorial orientation. It launched its internet edition in 2000, changed to tabloid format in 2002, and changed the name to Budstikka in 2004. Published out of Sandvika

Sandvika

is the administrative centre of the municipality of Bærum in Norway. It was declared a city by the municipal council in Bærum on 4 June 2003.Sandvika is situated approximately west of Oslo. It is the main transportation hub for Western Bærum, and has a combined bus and railway station. Sandvika is...

 for most of its history, it moved to Billingstad in recent years.

It has a circulation of 28,258, of whom 27,791 are subscribers. It is published by the company Asker og Bærums Budstikke ASA

Allmennaksjeselskap

Allmennaksjeselskap , or ASA, is the Norwegian term for a public limited company. "ASA" or "asa" is added to the company name of all Norwegian companies registered as Allmennaksjeselskap....

, which is owned 31.5% by Edda Media

Edda Media

Edda Media is a Norwegian media group that owns a number of Norwegian newspapers, television channels, radio channels and websites. The company is part of the Mecom Group and is the remaining domestic part of Orkla Media. In 2006 the newspapers in the Edda Group had 1,250,000 daily readers, a...

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List of editors

• 1991-present : Andreas Gjølme
• 1961-1991 : Rolf Kluge
• 1958-1961 : A. Arthur Herstrøm
• 1918-1958 : Johs. Løken
• 1917-1918 : Anton B. Onstad
• 1913-1917 : Audun Hjermann
• 1913-1915 : Chr. Sangesland
• 1898-1913 : Jørgen Chr. Kanitz