Vikebladet Vestposten is the major local newspaper

Newspaper

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 of Ulstein

Ulstein

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 and Hareid

Hareid

Hareid is a village and municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the Sunnmøre region. The administrative centre is the village of Hareid...

 in the Sunnmøre

Sunnmøre

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 region of Norway

Norway

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Ownership

Vikebladet Vestposten is owned by Sunnmørsposten

Sunnmørsposten

Sunnmørsposten is a newspaper published by Mecom Group in Ålesund, Norway. Published in compact format six days a week, it consists of two sections; one for local news, sports and classified ads, and one for culture, weather, opinions and editorials and obituaries...

, which again is owned 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...

. The newspaper originally was named Vikebladet. In 1989 however, Vikebladet bought Vestposten, thus becoming Vikebladet Vestposten AS.

Circulation

The Newspaper is published three times weekly, and had a circulation of 4 504 in 2008, Approximately one copy for every 2.6 residents of the two municipalities it serves. The editor of Vikebladet Vestposten is Asle Geir Johansen, while the manager is Heidi Myklebust.

Vikebladet Vestposten is published in Nynorsk

Nynorsk

Nynorsk or New Norwegian is one of two official written standards for the Norwegian language, the other being Bokmål. The standard language was created by Ivar Aasen during the mid-19th century, to provide a Norwegian alternative to the Danish language which was commonly written in Norway at the...

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