Farsunds Avis is a local newspaper published in Farsund

Farsund

is a town and municipality in the county of Vest-Agder, Norway.The town of Farsund was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 , although already recognized as a trading center in 1795...

, Norway

Norway

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. It covers Farsund

Farsund

is a town and municipality in the county of Vest-Agder, Norway.The town of Farsund was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 , although already recognized as a trading center in 1795...

, Lyngdal

Lyngdal

is a municipality in Vest-Agder county, Norway. Lyngdal was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 . Austad and Kvås were separated from Lyngdal on 1 January 1909 but they were again merged with Lyngdal on 1 January 1964, together with the area of Spangereid west of Lenesfjorden.It is a...

 and Hægebostad

Hægebostad

Hægebostad is a municipality in Vest-Agder county, Norway. Hægebostad was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838...

. It was established in 1889.List of historical newspapers

Farsunds Avis today

In 2010 it had a circulation of 5,994. The newspaper is published by AS Farsunds Aktiebogtrykkeri, which is mainly owned by Fædrelandsvennen AS

Fædrelandsvennen

Fædrelandsvennen is a regional newspaper based in Kristiansand, Norway, covering the southernmost part of the country, , focusing especially on the area between Mandal and Lillesand .The newspaper has 235 employees and has 116 000 daily readers and a circulation of 37 934, making it Norway's...

.

Sveinung W. Jensen is editor-in-chief. Kjell Henrik Moen is the company's chairman.

History

According to history, Farsunds Avis was born thanks to a misprint.
The radical newspaper Lister reported from a meeting in Farsund held by the Conservative Party of Norway

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...

. Officials from the Church were also present, and the newspaper undeliberately named them «presteskrap» instead of «presteskap». The single r changed the meaning completely in Norwegian

Norwegian language

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, from «clergy

Clergy

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» to «clergy rubbish».

The people of the upper class

Upper class

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 in Farsund were fed up and founded their own newspaper on 15 June 1889.
Consul P. Sundt was the founding father and Farsunds Avis's first chairman.

In the 1970s Farsunds Avis started offset printing

Offset printing

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 and became a daily newspaper. The newspaper went from broadsheet

Broadsheet

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 to compact

Compact (newspaper)

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format 9 March 2002.
Farsunds Avis is a conservative, but politically independent newspaper.