Adresseavisen

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</td></tr> <tr><th>Editor</th><td>Gunnar Flikke</td></tr> <tr><th>Political allegiance</th><td>Conservative</td></tr><tr><th>Language</th><td>Norwegian</td></tr>

Image:Adresseavisen-logo.png
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Tabloid

Owner	Schibsted ASA, Orkla Media, Must Invenst, others
Founded	July 3, 1767
Headquarters	Trondheim, Norway

Website: adressa.no

Adresseavisen (OSE: AAV) is a regional newspaper published daily, except Sundays in Trondheim, Norway. It is an independent, conservative newspaper with a daily circulation of approx. 85,000. It is also informally known as Adresseavisa or simply Adressa. The newspaper covers the areas of Trøndelag and Nordmøre.

Adresseavisen switched from broadsheet to tabloid format on September 16th 2006. Stocks in Adresseavisen are traded at Oslo Stock Exchange.

In addition to the main newspaper, Adresseavisen owns several smaller local newspapers in the Trøndelag region. They also own and operate a local radio station, Radio-Adressa, and a local TV station, TV-Adressa (prior to January 30, 2006: TVTrøndelag). They also have a stake in the national radio channel Kanal 24. In addition the newspaper ownes the local newspapers Fosna-Folket, Hitra-Frøya, Levanger-Avisa, Sør-Trøndelag, Trønderbladet and Verdalingen. <ref>http://www.medieregisteret.no/database/dbprogs/</ref>

1 History
2 See also
3 External links
4 References

[edit] History

The newspaper was first published July 3, 1767 as "Kongelig allene privilegerede Trondheims Adresse-Contoirs Efterretninger", making it the oldest Norwegian newspaper still being published. The name has changed several times before the newspaper got its present name in 1927. Locally it is often referred to as "Adressa".

Martinus Lind Nissen (1744-1795) was the founder and first editor of Adresseavisen. At his death, Nissen was succeeded by Mathias Conrad Peterson, a French-oriented revolutionary pioneering radical journalism in Norway. Later editors, however, have been more conservative. In Peterson's age the paper was renamed "Trondhjemske Tidender" (roughly "Trondhjem Times") and began to look more like a modern newspaper. Changing names, owners and profile several times during the 19th century, the paper was named "Trondhjems Adresseavis" in 1890. Its first press picture was seen in 1893. During the 1920s, the paper nearly bankrupted, but it was saved by the new editor, Harald Torp, who had the position until 1969. Adressavisen became the first Norwegian newspaper to use computer technology in 1967. Its website was launched in 1996. Editor-in-chief since 1989 is Gunnar Flikke.