List of newspapers in Iceland
The number of national daily newspapers in Iceland was just five in 1950 and in 1965.[1] This is a list of both current and defunct newspapers in Iceland:
Current daily newspapers
- Fréttablaðið - founded in 2001
- Morgunblaðið - founded in 1913
Current weekly newspapers
- DV - merger of Dagblaðið and Vísir in 1981
- Fréttatíminn - founded 2010; weekly news for the capital area
- The Reykjavík Grapevine - describes itself as a newspaper; publishes some 18 issues a year
- Skessuhorn - weekly news for the West Coast of Iceland
- Vikudagur - weekly news for the North of Iceland
- Viðskiptablaðið - weekly business newspaper
Defunct
- 24 stundir - formerly known as Blaðið
- Alþýðublaðið - social-democratic newspaper
- Dagblaðið - founded in 1975, merged with Vísir in 1981 as Dagblaðið-Vísir or DV
- Dagur
- Eintak - weekly newspaper
- Helgarpósturinn - weekly newspaper
- Ísafold
- Pressan - weekly newspaper
- Þjóðviljinn - socialist newspaper, 1936-1992
- Tíminn - agrarian daily; the Progressive Party
- Vikublaðið - weekly socialist newspaper
- Vísir - founded in 1910, initially a right-wing newspaper, merged with Dagblaðið in 1981
See also
References
- ↑ Pippa Norris (Fall 2000). "Chapter 4 The Decline of Newspapers?". A Virtuous Circle: Political Communications in Post-Industrial Societies (PDF). New York: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 6 October 2013.
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