Ny Tid

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Ny Tid

Social-liberal
Headquarters	Oslo, Norway
Website	www.nytid.no

Ny Tid (English: Modern Times Review) is Norway's largest international quarterly review of non-fiction books – up to 50 in each issue. It is currently owned by Ny Tid & Orientering AS.

Ny Tid is headed by the newspaper founder

in Norway.

History

Political Past

Ny Tid's predecessor was the weekly Orientering, which was founded as an independent weekly in January 1953.

The magazine gained notability thanks to the quality, reputation, and success of its writers including

who was at the center of literary life in Norway; and Borgen was an author sent to prison by the Nazis for his writings.

In 1975 Orientering was included in the new Ny Tid. From 1975 until 1998 Ny Tid was owned by the Socialist Left Party (SV).

On 24 January 2006 the publishing house

.

Voices Without Borders

Every week an exclusive column is printed, in which writers from free speech-challenged countries are invited to comment and outline. These columnists are:

Content and Style

Since the relaunch in January 2006, the independent magazine, regularly prints exclusive columns by writers like Noreena Hertz (Great Britain), Irshad Manji (Canada), Anna Funder (Australia), Shah Muhammad Rais (Afghanistan), Saskia Sassen (USA), Natalia Novozhilova, and Anna Politkovskaya (Russia), the independent journalist assassinated after a series of articles she published about corruption and the KGB under the Putin presidency.

The magazine has a global outlook with most of its articles focusing on current events across the globe. It is published in Norwegian for its print edition and in both English and Norwegian for its online edition. It covers politics, culture, environmental issues, and international affairs. The current editor is Dag Herbjørnsrud. The editorial staff is based in Oslo, while the correspondents are situated in five continents.

In 2015 Ny Tid was changed to a monthly broadsheet newspaper summer 2015, and also included in the distribution of the daily newspaper Klassekampen making it available to more readers. The main focus is peace&war, migration, climate, new media, and international documentary films and non-fiction books.

Editors

• Truls Lie
  2015–present
• Dag Herbjørnsrud 2008–2015
• Martine Aurdal 2006–2008
• Dag Herbjørnsrud 2005–2006
• Anders Horn 2001–2005
• Anne Hege Simonsen 1998–2001
• Runar I. Malkenes 1995–1998
• Turid Grønlund 1994–1995
• Gunnar Ringheim 1991–1994
• Bernt Eggen 1989–1991
• Finn Gustavsen 1986–1989
• Ingolf Håkon Teigene 1982–1986
• Steinar Hansson 1979–1982
• Audgunn Oltedal 1975–1979

Circulation

As a newspaper:

As a magazine:

Notes

External links

• Official site
• International site