Stavanger Aftenblad
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Newspaper
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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 was founded in 1893 by the priest Lars Oftedal
Lars Oftedal (born 1838)
Lars Svendsen Oftedal was a Norwegian revivalist, priest, social reformer, politician, publicist and newspaper editor.-Personal life:...
, and was for a long period a publication for the Liberal Party. It had a circulation of 68,186 copies in 2005. Editor in Chief is Tom Hetland
Tom Hetland
Tom Magnar Hetland is a Norwegian journalist and editor.He majored in history at the University of Bergen, with minors in Norwegian and Russian. While studying he was editor in Norsk Tidend. He also worked as a journalist in various minor newspapers.He was hired as a journalist Stavanger Aftenblad...
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Stavanger Aftenblad went from broadsheet format to tabloid format on 16 September 2006.
The online version of the paper had an English News Service which was aimed at the English speaking foreign community in Norway who are not fluent in the language. It was also aimed at people from around the world who are interested in Norway. The English service closed in January 2009 due to the then-ongoing financial crisis.