''Vestby Avis'' (The Vestby Gazette) is a local Norwegian newspaper published in the municipality of

Vestby Vestby is a municipality in Akershus county, Norway. It is part of the Follo traditional region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Vestby. General information Name The municipality (originally the parish) is nam ...

Akershus Akershus () is a county in Norway, with Oslo as its administrative centre, though Oslo is not located within Akershus. Akershus has been a region in Eastern Norway with Oslo as its main city since the Middle Ages, and is named after the Akers ...

county A county () is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesL. Brookes (ed.) '' Chambers Dictionary''. Edinburgh: Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2005. in some nations. The term is derived from the Old French denoti ...

.''Store norske leksikon'': ''Vestby Avis''.
/ref> The paper is published weekly by

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, an ...

. It was launched on May 26, 2006, and at the same time the company also started publishing ''

Ås Avis ''Ås Avis'' (The Ås Gazette) is a weekly newspaper in the municipality of Ås, Norway published by Mediehuset Indre Østfold/Follo, part of Amedia. The first issue was published on May 26, 2006, and the company also began issuing '' Vestby Avis'' ...

'' in the neighboring municipality of Ås. Initially it was published only once a month and was distributed free to all households in the municipality. The manager of both of these newspapers, as well as '' Enebakk Avis'', is Anne E. Lunde. ''Vestby Avis'' is edited by Mattias Mellquist.''Vestby Avis'' homepage.
/ref> The paper's editorial material is produced locally, but it shares its advertising with '' Akershus Amtstidende'' and '' Smaalenenes Avis''.

Circulation

According to the

Norwegian Audit Bureau of Circulations The Norwegian Audit Bureau of Circulations () is a company that monitors the print runs of Norwegian newspapers, magazines, and weekly publications, and offers advice on calculating circulation numbers. It was established in 2001National Association of Local Newspapers The National Association of Local Newspapers (, LLA) is a Norwegian association for local newspapers. The organization was established in Voss in 1976, and it works for its member companies' general conditions and interests. Among the first issu ...

, ''Vestby Avis'' has had the following annual circulation:

References

External links

''Vestby Avis'' homepage
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