Bergensavisen
Norwegian Bokmål | |
Headquarters | Bergen, Norway |
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Website | www.ba.no |
Bergensavisen (lit. "the Bergen newspaper"), usually shortened to BA, is the second largest
In 2006, Bergensavisen had a daily circulation of 30,719 on Monday to Saturday, and 29,782 on Sundays. Approximately 108,000 read the paper every day.
Pre-history
Bergensavisen had a predecessor in Arbeidervennen, founded by the Danish trade unionist Sophus Pihl in 1885. When he died in 1888, a group of trade unionists and idealists continued his work. The newspaper
The few remaining Labour activists were left without a newspaper. Bergen Labour Party tried to run a newspaper called Bergens Arbeiderblad formerly, but it only existed from 11 April 1924 till October 1924.[3] In 1927, the Social Democratic Labour Party reconciled with the Labour Party, and the two parties again became one. At the same time, a new newspaper Bergens Arbeiderblad was founded on the base of Bergens Social-Demokrat. 1927 is considered the official founding year of BA.[2][4] The seven men commissioned to start the newspaper, also started the new Labour Party of Bergen, called Bergens Forenede Arbeiderparti.
Three years later, they had bigger circulation than Arbeidet. Arbeidet closed in 1948.
History
Bergens Arbeiderblad eventually became larger than Arbeidet, and instead started competing with Bergens Tidende, which was dominant in the city.[4] Bergens Arbeiderblad was stopped by the Nazi authorities in February 1941 during the German occupation of Norway, chief editor Oscar Ihlebæk was sent to a German concentration camp, where he died just after the camp was liberated by the Allied forces in May 1945.[4] It resumed operations after the war. BA added a Sunday edition in August 1990, changed name to Bergensavisen in August 1992 and started one of the first online newspapers in Norway in January 1996.
References
- ISBN 978-0-85771-952-2.
- ^ a b "Willy's slektssider - Tema". www.willyslekt.no.
- ^ Ved en milepel. Smakebiter av en avishistorie (in Norwegian). Bergen: Bergens Arbeiderblad. 1977. p. 15.
- ^ a b c "BA har bursdag". Bergensavisen. 23 March 2007. Retrieved 8 September 2008.
External links
- Media related to Bergensavisen at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website