Conservative Press Association

The Conservative Press Association (Norwegian: Den Konservative Presses Forening; shortened DKPF) was a Norwegian media institution whose stated objective was the furtherance of conservative daily newspapers. Amongst its members were editors, journalists, publishers and businesspeople who were involved in declared conservative newspapers. The activity in the association faded out concurrently with the discontinuance of party newspapers in Norway.

The Conservative Press Association was established on 29 August 1892 in the headquarters of the Norwegian Order of Freemasons, with Nils Vogt and Amandus Schibsted as initiators. It was not the first press association in Norway; the Norwegian Journalist Association had erstwhile been established on 24 January 1883. Vogt was elected the first chairman, and served in this position until 1906, apart from an interruption from 1898 to 1906. The editor of Morgenbladet, Christian Friele, was an honorary member of the association, despite not attending any of its meetings. In 1894, the Liberal Press Association (Norwegian: Venstres Presseforening) was established. Despite their irreconcilable political positions, the two press associations cooperated extensively; in 1899 they issued a leaflet on Norway's political position in the dissolution of the personal union with Sweden in 1905.

The association championed the Riksmål standard of written Norwegian and opposed the Samnorsk line. The chairman Thorstein Diesen was, however, ambivalent to this approach; he maintained that the endeavour for the Riksmål standard ought not to become a conservative cause.

At the Conservative Party's national convention in 1893, it was decided that the press association could send its own delegation to future national conventions. At the 1908 convention, Amandus Schibsted suggested to the central board of the party that it grant all chief editors of the press association access to the party's national conventions. This suggestion was adopted; the editors could thereupon access the national conventions on the same conditions as members of parliament.

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