Morgenbladet
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| Type | Weekly newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Compact (Tabloid) |
| Owner(s) |
NHST Media Group (90,1%) Fritt Ord (4,5%) Forlagskonsult AS (4,5%) Others (0,9%) |
| Editor | Anna B. Jenssen |
| Founded | 1819 |
| Political alignment | None |
| Language | Norwegian |
| Headquarters | Oslo, Norway |
| Circulation | 29,046 (2015) |
| Website | www.morgenbladet.no |
Morgenbladet is a Norwegian weekly, intellectual newspaper, covering politics, culture and science.
Morgenbladet was founded in 1819 by the book printer Niels Wulfsberg. The paper is the country's first daily newspaper; however, Adresseavisen was founded earlier. For a long time, Morgenbladet was also the country's top-ranking newspaper by circulation. Adolf Bredo Stabell, chief editor from 1831 to 1857, made Morgenbladet an important force of opposition, both in politics and litterature. Among its writers during this period was the author Henrik Wergeland.
The leadership of Christian Friele, from 1857 to 1893, turned Morgenbladet into the leading conservative news outlet in Norway. It was read by most people of authority and became the newspaper of high-ranking bureaucrats. It was soon challenged by new competition: Aftenposten (1860), catering to the merchant class, and Verdens Gang (1868) and Dagbladet (1869), representing opposition to the ruling classes.
Connections to the conservative party grew even stronger after the turn of the century. C.J. Hambro, who later went on to be chairman of the Conservative party for eight years and president of the Storting for eighteen years, was editor of Morgenbladet in 1913-1919.
After resisting the directions imposed by the occupants during World War II, its chief editor Olaf Gjerløw and news editor Fredrik Ramm were arrested by the Germans in 1941. When the new chief editor Rolv Werner Erichsen was sent to the Grini detention camp by the German occupying force in 1943, the newspaper was discontinued for the remainder of the war.
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