''Dagsposten'' ("Daily Mail") was a Norwegian newspaper, published in

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county.

History and profile

''Dagsposten'' was started on 2 October 1877 by Olai Olsen. He chose a connection with the liberal politician Johan Sverdrup, who later founded the

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. It soon became the largest newspaper in

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. From 1886 to 1890

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was editor, and from 1890 to 1902 Håkon Løken was editor. After a conflict with the owners, who wanted a Coalition Party connection, Løken left and founded ''

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''. H. O. Oppedal took over. In 1909 ''Dagsposten'' became affiliated with the Liberal Left Party. Gerhard Jynge was editor from 1914 to 1917. In 1917 Johannes Knudsen took over as editor, and in 1940 he affiliated the newspaper with the Fascist party

Nasjonal Samling The Nasjonal Samling (, NS; ) was a Norway, Norwegian far-right politics, far-right political party active from 1933 to 1945. It was the only legal party of Norway from 1942 to 1945. It was founded by former minister of defence Vidkun Quisling a ...

. During this period the paper was financed by the

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. After a while it was allowed to remove the sub-header "Organ for Nasjonal Samling", which had caused a loss of advertisement and discrediting among the populace. It was abruptly stopped when the

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ended in Norway on 8 May 1945.

References

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