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Mari Velsand
Mari Velsand (born 1968) is a Norwegian government official and journalist, and the current director of the Norwegian Media Authority. Career Velsand graduated in journalism at the Norwegian Journalist College in 1992, studied Spanish at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and earned a master's degree from BI Norwegian Business School in 2011. She worked as a journalist with '' Oppland Arbeiderblad'' and as a journalist and manager with the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, as editor-in-chief of ''Nationen'' from 2008 to 2013 and as CEO of Tun Media from 2012 from 2013. From 2014 to 2017 she was a director at Amedia. In 2017 she was appointed by the Norwegian government as the director of the Norwegian Media Authority, succeeding Tom Thoresen Tom Thoresen (born 16 May 1947 in Glemmen) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Østfold in 1977, and was re-elected on five occasions. On the local level Thoresen was a mem ...
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Norwegian Media Authority
The Norwegian Media Authority ( no, Medietilsynet) is a Norwegian government agency subordinate to the Ministry of Culture and Equality charged with various tasks relating to broadcasting, newspapers and films. It enforces rules on content, advertising and sponsorship for broadcast media, rates movies, administers newspaper production grants and enforces rules on media ownership. Activities The authority's tasks include * rating movies * enforcing rules on content, advertising and sponsorship for broadcast media; handling license applications for local broadcast media * handling applications for newspaper production grants for non-leading newspapers, minority language newspapers and Sami newspapers * overseeing and intervening against the acquisition of media ownership (either prohibiting the acquisition or merger, or allowing an acquisition on such conditions as the Authority sets, including ordering the divestment of other media ownership interests. History The agenc ...
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Universidad Complutense De Madrid
The Complutense University of Madrid ( es, Universidad Complutense de Madrid; UCM, links=no, ''Universidad de Madrid'', ''Universidad Central de Madrid''; la, Universitas Complutensis Matritensis, links=no) is a public research university located in Madrid. Founded in Alcalá in 1293 (before relocating to Madrid in 1836), it is one of the oldest operating universities in the world. It is located on a sprawling campus that occupies the entirety of the Ciudad Universitaria district of Madrid, with annexes in the district of Somosaguas in the neighboring city of Pozuelo de Alarcón. It is named after the ancient Roman settlement of Complutum, now an archeological site in Alcalá de Henares, just east of Madrid. It enrolls over 86,000 students, making it the third largest non-distance European university by enrollment. It is one of the most prestigious Spanish universities and consistently ranks among the top universities in Spain, together with the University of Barcelona, Pom ...
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BI Norwegian Business School
BI Norwegian Business School () is the largest business school in Norway and the second largest in all of Europe. BI has in total four campuses with the main one located in Oslo. The university has 845 employees consisting of an academic staff of 404 people and 441 administrative staff. In 2015, BI Norwegian Business School had 18,728 students. BI is the largest supplier of economic and administrative competence and skills in Norway with more than 200,000 graduates since 1983. BI Norwegian Business School is a private foundation and is accredited by NOKUT as a specialised university institution. BI organised its academic activities in nine separate research departments covering all of the disciplines that can be expected at a modern European business school. History BI Norwegian Business School was founded in 1943 by Finn Øien as ''Bedriftøkonomisk Institutt'' ( en, Institute of Managerial Economics), hence the abbreviation ''BI''. Current activities BI offers a full set of pr ...
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Oppland Arbeiderblad
''Oppland Arbeiderblad'' (''OA'') is a newspaper based in Gjøvik, Norway. It was founded in 1924 after the Labour Party lost its newspaper in the city, ''Ny Dag ''Ny Dag'' ("New Day") was a Swedish communist newspaper and the main publication of the Communist Party of Sweden (later renamed 'Left Party – Communists') from 2 January 1930 to 5 August 1990, when publication stopped. ''Ny Dag'' was started ...'', to the Communists. At that time there were several daily newspapers in Vestoppland, but ''Oppland Arbeiderblad'' is now alone after '' Samhold'' went bankrupt in 1998. References External links Newspapers established in 1924 1924 establishments in Norway Daily newspapers published in Norway Mass media in Gjøvik Amedia Labour Party (Norway) newspapers {{Norway-newspaper-stub ...
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Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation
NRK, an abbreviation of the Norwegian ''Norsk Rikskringkasting AS'', generally expressed in English as the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, is the Norwegian government-owned radio and television public broadcasting company, and the largest media organisation in Norway. All other TV channels, broadcast from Norway, were banned between 1960 and 1981. NRK broadcasts three national TV channels and thirteen national radio channels on digital terrestrial television, digital terrestrial radio and subscription television. All NRK radio stations are streamed online at NRK.no, which also offers an extensive TV service. NRK is a founding member of the European Broadcasting Union. Financing Until the start of 2020, about 94% of NRK's funding came from a mandatory annual licence fee payable by anyone who owns or uses a TV or device capable of receiving TV broadcasts. The remainder came from commercial activities such as programme and DVD sales, spin-off products, and certain types o ...
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Nationen
''Nationen'' is a Norwegian daily newspaper with a particular focus on agriculture and rural districts. Its circulation in 2015 was 12,954, an increase of 281 copies from 2014. History and profile ''Nationen'' was founded in 1918.Nationen
Store norske leksikon, Retrieved 7 April 2013
The founding editor-in-chief was Thorvald Aadahl, and during his editorship the paper adopted a far-right political stance. The paper primarily targets farmers and the agrarian sector, with focus on district politics, , commentaries and features. It is based in Oslo with offices in

Tun Media
Tun Media is a Norwegian media group that publishes the daily newspaper ''Nationen'', the weekly newspaper '' Bondebladet'' and the magazines Traktor' and Norsk Landbruk'. The group was established in 2000 after a merger between Landbruksforlaget, Bondebladet and Nationen. It is based in Oslo and the largest owners are TINE (25%), the Norwegian Agrarian Association (25%), Nortura Nortura is a Norwegian agricultural cooperative that operates slaughterhouses and other processing plants related to meat and eggs. The company was created as a merger between Gilde Norsk Kjøtt and Prior Norge in 2006, and has head offices in O ... (22,5%) and Landkreditt (8%). The remaining percents are owned by about 800 individuals. References 2000 establishments in Norway Mass media companies established in 2000 Mass media companies of Norway Agriculture in Norway Companies based in Oslo Mass media in Oslo {{norway-company-stub ...
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Amedia
Amedia AS is the second largest media company in Norway (the largest is Schibsted and the third largest is Polaris Media). The company is whole or partial owner of 50 local and regional newspaper with online newspapers and printing presses, and its own news agency, Avisenes Nyhetsbyrå. The corporation also owns and operates a group of printing plants under the brand name Prime Print in Russia. History Amedia AS was established on 27 May 1948 as Norsk Arbeiderpresse (lit: ''Norwegian Labour Press''). It was an association of social democratic newspapers. It was renamed A-pressen in 1994, a name which it retained until 2012. The company was originally created to finance Norwegian labour newspapers owned by the labour unions and Labour Party. In 1990 the company was refinanced and transferred to a corporation, with the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions and the Labour Party as the largest owners. When A-pressen bought part of TV2, the Labour Party chose to sell their s ...
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Tom Thoresen
Tom Thoresen (born 16 May 1947 in Glemmen) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Østfold in 1977, and was re-elected on five occasions. On the local level Thoresen was a member of Fredrikstad city council from 1971 to 1987. Outside politics he graduated as candidatus philologiae in 1974 and worked one year as a high school teacher. From 1983 to 1987 he was deputy leader of the now-defunct government agency ''Likestillingsrådet''. In 2002 he was appointed director of ''Statens Medieforvaltning'', which was merged with other institutions in 2005 to become the Norwegian Media Authority The Norwegian Media Authority ( no, Medietilsynet) is a Norwegian government agency subordinate to the Ministry of Culture and Equality charged with various tasks relating to broadcasting, newspapers and films. It enforces rules on content, adve .... Thoresen continued as director. References * 1947 births Living people Mem ...
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