Dagbladet#Online edition

{{Lang|no|Dagbladet}} was founded in 1869 by Anthon Bang. Hagbard Emanuel Berner served as its first editor in chief and the first issue was published on 2 January 1869. From 1884 to 1977, the newspaper was affiliated to the Liberal party (Venstre).{{cite journal|author=Rolf Werenskjold|title=The Dailies in Revolt|journal=Scandinavian Journal of History|date=2008|volume=33|issue=4|pages=417–440|doi=10.1080/03468750802423094|s2cid=142265516 }} Since 1977, it has officially been politically neutral, though it has kept its position as a liberal newspaper, also incorporating some culturally radical stands in issues like the language struggle, church policies, feminism, intimate relationship, criminal care, etc. The newspaper was in 1972 against Norway joining the EU, but had changed to pro in 1994.Store norske leksikon, [http://www.snl.no/Dagbladet Dagbladet] During the German occupation of Norway the editor of {{Lang|no|Dagbladet}}, Einar Skavlan, was arrested in April 1942 due to the paper's liberal stance and loyalty to the King.{{cite journal|author=Joachim Joesten|title=The Lights Went Out|journal=The Virginia Quarterly Review|date=Autumn 1942|volume=18|issue=4|page=551|jstor=26448498|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26448498}}

{{Lang|no|Dagbladet}} has played an important role in development of new editorial products in Norway. In 1990, the newspaper was the first in Norway to publish a Sunday edition in more than 70 years, and in 1995, it became the first of the major Norwegian newspapers with an online edition. In 2007 it had a circulation of 204,850 copies.{{cite web|title=Media in Norway|url=http://www.regjeringen.no/en/archive/Brundtlands-3rd-Government/kd/Veiledninger-og-brosjyrer/1996/media-in-norway.html?id=419207|work=Regjeringen|access-date=22 November 2014|format=Guideline|date=31 August 1996}} The actual first newspaper was a regional paper called Brønnøysunds Avis. Over the past few years, {{Lang|no|Dagbladet}} has had success with the Saturday supplement Magasinet, which reaches 25.3% of the adult population of Norway.[https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20080410151622/http://www.tns-gallup.no/arch/img.asp?file_id=212417&ext=.pdf TNS-Gallup.no]

Due to the declining of daily circulation, the newspaper has reduced the number of workers the last couple of years by a few hundred. Because of this, the newspaper focused more on "simpler news", but recent years, the newspaper has chosen an editorial direction on hard news.{{Citation needed|date=June 2011}}

{{Lang|no|Dagbladet}} was previously owned by the privately held company Berner Gruppen. Jens P. Heyerdahl was the largest owner and had effective control through several different companies. DB Medialab AS also owned 50% of the Norwegian web portal and ISP start.no and ran the online community Blink from 2002 to 2011.[http://blink.dagbladet.no/index.htm Blink.dagbladet.no] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130622030526/http://blink.dagbladet.no/index.htm |date=22 June 2013 }}, Retrieved 21 June 2013

In June 2013, {{Lang|no|Dagbladet}} with online products was sold from Berner Gruppen to Aller Media for reportedly about 300 million Norwegian kroner.Eric B. Utheim and Line Midtsjø (21 June 2013): [http://e24.no/media/haaper-aa-faa-fortsette-paa-dagbladet-fronten/20384659 Håper å få fortsette på Dagbladet-fronten] {{in lang|no}} E24, Retrieved 21 June 2013 As of 2016, 99% of the shares of Dagbladet AS are formally owned by Berner Media Holding AS, which in turn is 100% owned by Aller Media. The remaining 1% of Dagbladet AS is owned by the foundation Dagbladets Stiftelse.{{Cite web |url=http://www.proff.no/roller/dagbladet-as/oslo/aviser-fagblader-og-tidsskrifter/Z0I3KVC2/ |title=Dagbladet AS - Oslo - Roller og kunngjøringer |access-date=30 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160408112948/http://www.proff.no/roller/dagbladet-as/oslo/aviser-fagblader-og-tidsskrifter/Z0I3KVC2/ |archive-date=8 April 2016 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}

Dagbladet operates a number of technological websites. The online community Blink was large for a period in the 2000s, before it was closed down. Dagbladet also operates Start.no and 123spill.no, but both have been inactive since 2016. Previously, Dagbladet also had the largest gaming website in the Nordic region, PressFire.no, but the website was discontinued by the media house in 2016.{{Cite web |last=Fossbakken |first=Erlend |date=2023-05-30 |title=Tar med seg nettsted og forlater Dagbladet |url=http://kampanje.com/medier/2016/01/tar-med-seg-nettsted-og-forlater-dagbladet/ |access-date=2023-05-30 |website=kampanje.com |language=nb}} In 2018, Dagbladet started a gaming channel on YouTube, Dagbladet Spill, but this was closed down after a year.{{Cite web |last=Braseth |first=Sofie |date=2018-04-20 |title=Over 100 søkte på «Norges kuleste jobb». Disse fire skal spille for Dagbladet |url=https://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/over-100-sokte-pa-norges-kuleste-jobb-disse-fire-skal-spille-for-dagbladet/69723937 |access-date=2023-05-30 |website=dagbladet.no |language=no}}

Alexandra Beverfjord was the editor-in-chief from 2018 to 2023.{{Cite web |last=NRK |date=2023-06-22 |title=Alexandra Beverfjord blir ny konserndirektør for Media i Aller Media |url=https://www.nrk.no/nyheter/alexandra-beverfjord-blir-ny-konserndirektor-for-media-i-aller-media--1.16456677 |access-date=2023-09-30 |website=NRK |language=nb-NO}}

The online edition of {{Lang|no|Dagbladet}} was launched on 8 March 1995{{cite journal|author1=Lars Bo Eriksen|author2=Carina Ihlström|title=Evolution of the Web News Genre - The Slow Move Beyond the Print Metaphor|journal=Proceedings of the 33rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences|date=2000|url=http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:240060/FULLTEXT01.pdf|access-date=29 December 2014}} following Brønnøysunds Avis, a local newspaper.{{cite news|title=Online Journalism Atlas: Norway|url=http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2008/01/25/online-journalism-atlas-norway/|access-date=13 January 2015|work=Online Journalism|date=25 January 2008}} Dagbladet.no has a readership of nearly 1,2 million per day, which makes it amongst Europe's most successful web newspapers when measured against both population and readership of mother newspaper.{{citation needed|date=March 2016}}

In 1988, {{Lang|no|Dagbladet}} was criticised for the aggressive use of photographs of grieving next-of-kin in the aftermath of the Flight 710 air-disaster. This led to a self-imposed change of practice within the Norwegian press regarding the handling of such incidents.

On 10 November 1989, the day after the fall of the Berlin wall, {{Lang|no|Dagbladet}} made no reference to the fall on its front page and instead featured the headline "Let the children swear", a quote from child psychologist Magne Raundalen. This caused criticism and ridicule of the newspaper for being overly tabloid.Christian Thorkildsen (7 November 2009) [http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/Berlinmurens-bannemann-5589650.html Berlinmurens bannemann] Aftenposten.

Former Minister of Health, Tore Tønne, committed suicide allegedly following {{Lang|no|Dagbladet}}'s investigations over alleged economic improprieties committed after the conclusion of his term in the Norwegian cabinet. {{Lang|no|Dagbladet}} was criticized by the Norwegian Press Association. The paper reprinted the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten's 12 Muhammad Cartoons in 2005.[http://www.jus.no/index.gan?id=29935 Jus.no - Den Norske Advokatforening] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305005104/https://www.jus.no/index.gan?id=29935 |date=5 March 2016 }}

In May 2011, {{Lang|no|Dagbladet}} lost a libel case in Oslo District Court against ambulance driver Erik Schjenken for printing factual errors about the Paramedics incident in Oslo 2007, and was ordered to pay a compensation of 1 million Nkr. In 2013, Dagbladet lost the appeal case in Borgarting Court of Appeal, but the legal ruling was slightly changed and the compensation reduced to 200,000 Nkr.Ingvild Bruaset (23 April 2013): [http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/Dagbladet-vurderer-a-anke-Schjenken-dom-7182886.html#.UanZ0JyTmuA Dagbladet vurderer å anke Schjenken-dom] {{in lang|no}} Aftenposten, Retrieved 1 June 2013 In May 2013, Dagbladet appealed the case to the Supreme Court of Norway.Tommy H. Brakstad (24 May 2013): [http://www.na24.no/m/propaganda/?articleId=3628156 Dagbladet anker Schjenken-dommen] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130703160309/http://www.na24.no/m/propaganda/?articleId=3628156 |date=3 July 2013 }} {{in lang|no}} NA24.no, Retrieved 1 June 2013

The newspaper encountered criticism over a cartoon published in November 2011 that equated the Holocaust with the situation in the Gaza Strip.{{citation needed|date=June 2013}} In 2013, Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Jewish communities, and human rights organizations claimed that a cartoon depicting the Jewish tradition of circumcision as barbaric was antisemitic.Editorial (3 June 2013): [http://www.dagbladet.no/2013/06/03/kultur/meninger/dbmener/leder1/27495428/ Dagbladet and antisemitism] Dagbladet, retrieved 12 June 2013 Editor of the culture-and-opinion sections in Dagbladet Geir Ramnefjell dismissed the criticism of the 2013 drawing, stating that it was an "innocent ridicule of religious practice and nothing more than that".John Solsvik (30 May 2013): [http://www.dagen.no/2013/05/30/israel/kritikken/troskyldig/geir_ramnefjell/135798 Dette er blodmerking av jøder] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130608144155/http://www.dagen.no/2013/05/30/israel/kritikken/troskyldig/geir_ramnefjell/135798 |date=8 June 2013 }} {{in lang|no}} Dagen, Retrieved 1 June 2013 Dagbladet also defended the caricature in an editorial 3 June 2013. The Norwegian Centre Against Racism and the Mosaic community in Norway filed a complaint about the caricature to the Norwegian Press Complaints Commission, which did not find {{Lang|no|Dagbladet}} at fault.Lise Marit Kalstad and Kjell Kvamme (10 June 2013): [http://www.vl.no/samfunn/klager-antisemittisk-tegneseriestripe-inn-for-pfu/#cxrecs_s Klager «antisemittisk» tegneseriestripe inn for PFU] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130613022401/http://www.vl.no/samfunn/klager-antisemittisk-tegneseriestripe-inn-for-pfu/#cxrecs_s |date=13 June 2013 }} {{in lang|no}} Vårt Land, retrieved 12 June 2013[http://www.dagen.no/Samfunn/Dagbladet-karikatur_frikjent_i_PFU-65610 Dagbladet-karikatur frikjent i PFU] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220162836/http://www.dagen.no/Samfunn/Dagbladet-karikatur_frikjent_i_PFU-65610 |date=20 December 2016 }} Dagen. 24 September 2013

Numbers from the Norwegian Media Businesses' Association, Mediebedriftenes Landsforening:

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• 1980: 132295
• 1981: 140429
• 1982: 138674
• 1983: 155337
• 1984: 169317
• 1985: 175685
• 1986: 187942
• 1987: 198937
• 1988: 206092
• 1989: 214637
• 1990: 219757
• 1991: 214925
• 1992: 224490
• 1993: 227796
• 1994: 228834
• 1995: 209421
• 1996: 205740
• 1997: 204850
• 1998: 206357
• 1999: 206969
• 2000: 192555
• 2001: 193637
• 2002: 191164
• 2003: 186136
• 2004: 183092
• 2005: 162069
• 2006: 146512
• 2007: 135611
• 2008: 123383
• 2009: 105255
• 2010: 98130
• 2011: 98989
• 2012: 88539
• 2013: 80028
• 2014: 73647
• 2015: 56932
• 2016: 46250

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