Bondebladet (weekly)

Not to be confused with Bondebladet (newspaper), Norwegian newspaper published between 1914 and 1935.

Bondebladet
TypeWeekly newspaper
FormatTabloid
Owner(s)Norwegian Farmers' Union
PublisherTun Media
Founded1974; 51 years ago (1974)
LanguageNorwegian
HeadquartersOslo
CountryNorway
OCLC number1171481
WebsiteBondebladet

Bondebladet (Norwegian: The Farmers' Paper) is a weekly newspaper published in Oslo, Norway. The paper has been in circulation since 1974.

History and profile

Bondebladet was established in 1974.[1][2] The paper is the official organ of the Norwegian Farmers' Union.[3] As of 1997 its publishers were the Norwegian Farmers' Union and the Norwegian Agricultural Co-operative Society.[4] It is published by Tun Media on a weekly basis and is based in Oslo.[5][6] Its target audience is the Norwegian farmers and the paper provides them with an opportunity to publish their advertisements.[5] The weekly is published in tabloid format[5] and is sent to the members of the Union and to other agriculture-related institutions.[3]

Bondebladet had a circulation of 83,000 copies in 2003.[1] The paper claimed a circulation of 63,479 copies and the readership of 110,000 in 2014.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b "Bondebladet". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian).
  2. ^ Western Europe 2003 (5th ed.). London; New York: Europa Publications. 2002. p. 508. ISBN 978-1-85743-152-0.
  3. ^ a b Karoline Daugstad (September 2005). "When the farmer becomes a provider of landscapes and agritourism and the tourist wants to be a part of "real rural life" - A story of insiders and outsiders in the Norwegian landscape" (PDF). Nordic Symposium in Tourism and Hospitality Research. Akureyri. Archived from the original (Conference Paper) on 27 April 2015. Retrieved 19 April 2015.
  4. ^ Berit Verstad (December 1998). "Cracking the Glass Ceiling: The Story of the Election Process in the Norwegian Farmers Union in 1997". Sociologia Ruralis. 38 (3): 414. doi:10.1111/1467-9523.00086.
  5. ^ a b c d "Media Kit 2014" (PDF). Tun Media. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 February 2015. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
  6. ^ "Farm work in Norway". Norges Bondelag. Archived from the original on 10 February 2015. Retrieved 26 December 2014.