Rogalands Avis is a local newspaper published in Stavanger

Stavanger

Stavanger is a city and municipality in the county of Rogaland, Norway.Stavanger municipality has a population of 126,469. There are 197,852 people living in the Stavanger conurbation, making Stavanger the fourth largest city, but the third largest urban area, in Norway...

, 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 Stavanger

Stavanger

Stavanger is a city and municipality in the county of Rogaland, Norway.Stavanger municipality has a population of 126,469. There are 197,852 people living in the Stavanger conurbation, making Stavanger the fourth largest city, but the third largest urban area, in Norway...

 and the rest of southern Rogaland

Rogaland

is a county in Western Norway, bordering Hordaland, Telemark, Aust-Agder and Vest-Agder. It is the center of the Norwegian petroleum industry, and as a result of this, Rogaland has the lowest unemployment rate of any county in Norway, 1.1%...

. It was established in 1899.

A Labour Party

Norwegian Labour Party

The Labour Party is a social-democratic political party in Norway. It is the senior partner in the current Norwegian government as part of the Red-Green Coalition, and its leader, Jens Stoltenberg, is the current Prime Minister of Norway....

-affiliated newspaper, it was titled 1ste Mai until 1955, when it absorbed the bankrupt Haugaland Arbeiderblad

Haugaland Arbeiderblad

Haugaland Arbeiderblad was a Norwegian newspaper, published in Haugesund in Rogaland county. It was affiliated with the Norwegian Labour Party....

. Notable former editors-in-chief include Johan Gjøstein

Johan Gjøstein

Johan David Haslund Gjøstein was a Norwegian educator, newspaper editor and politician.-Personal life:Johan Gjøstein was born at Hystad, Stord as the son of teacher Amund Vikingsen Gjøstein and his wife Anne Munthe Olsen...

, Cornelius Holmboe

Cornelius Holmboe

Cornelius Holmboe was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He was Minister of Justice in 1928.-Personal life:...

 (1908–1909), Otto Luihn

Otto Luihn

Otto Luihn was a Norwegian newspaper editor, magazine editor and poet.He was born as Otto Killingland in Drammen as a son of attorney Samuel Killingland and Johanne Louise Luihn , and a grandson of Hans Jacob Luihn...

, Hans Andreas Hanssen (1919–1920), Børge Olsen-Hagen (1920–1936), Trond Hegna

Trond Hegna

Trond Hegna was a Norwegian journalist and politician for the Norwegian Labour Party and the Communist Party of Norway....

 (1940–1958), Engwall Pahr-Iversen (1978-1990), Norulv Øvrebotten (1990-1996) and Lars Helle

Lars Helle

Lars Helle is a Norwegian journalist and editor.He is currently the chief editor in Dagbladet, Norway's second largest tabloid newspaper, and the third largest newspaper overall. He was hired by the newspaper in 2002, after serving as chief editor of Rogalands Avis from 1996 to 2000. Helle has...

 (1996-2000).

It has a circulation of 13276, of whom 10521 are subscribers.

Rogalands Avis is owned 95.8% by A-pressen Lokale Medier AS, which in turn is owned 100% by A-pressen

A-pressen

A-pressen is one of the three largest media companies in Norway and was established on May 27, 1948 with the name Norsk Arbeiderpresse . It got its present name in 1994...

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