''Dagen'' is a Norwegian Christian newspaper established in 1919, and published in

Bergen Bergen (, ) is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestland county on the Western Norway, west coast of Norway. Bergen is the list of towns and cities in Norway, second-largest city in Norway after the capital Oslo. By May 20 ...

. The average circulation in 2004 was 5,307 copies. The ideological goal of the newspaper was "to influence society from a revival Christian point of view". On 1 January 2008 the newspaper merged with another Christian newspaper, ''Magazinet'', and was renamed to ''DagenMagazinet''. On 1 April 2011 ''DagenMagazinet'' was renamed to ''Dagen''. The current chief editor of ''Dagen'' is

Vebjørn Selbekk Vebjørn Selbekk (born 14 April 1969) is a Norwegian newspaper editor and author. Selbekk became widely known in Norway and abroad after he in 2006 reprinted a facsimile of the ''Jyllands-Posten'' Muhammad cartoons as editor of the Christian new ...

, former editor of ''Magazinet''. ''Magazinet'' became known to a wider audience in January 2006, when it was the first newspaper in Norway to reprint the ''

Jyllands-Posten (; English: ''The Morning Newspaper "The Jutland Post"''), commonly shortened to or ''JP'', is a Danish daily broadsheet newspaper. It is based in Aarhus C, Jutland, and with a weekday circulation of approximately 120,000 copies.Muhammad cartoons The Muhammad cartoons controversy (or Muhammad cartoons crisis, ) began after the Danish newspaper published twelve editorial cartoons on 30 September 2005 depicting Muhammad, the founder of Islam, in what it said was a response to the deb ...

which, according to the editor, was done in the name of

freedom of speech Freedom of speech is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or legal sanction. The rights, right to freedom of expression has been r ...

. The printing of these drawings resulted in attacks on Norwegian installations in some parts of the Muslim world. In 2019, ''Dagen'' purchased ''Korsets Seier'', the publication of the Pentecostal Church in Norway. The newspaper is dependent on economic support from the Norwegian Government.Pressestøtte: Dagen og Medier24 får størst økning. Klassekampen får fremdeles mest.
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