Norwegian Media Authority
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| Government agency | |
| Industry | Authority |
| Founded | 1 January 2005 |
| Headquarters | Fredrikstad, Norway |
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Area served
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Norway |
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Key people
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Mari Velsand (Director) |
| Parent | Norwegian Ministry of Culture and Church Affairs |
| Website | medietilsynet.no |
The Norwegian Media Authority (Norwegian: Medietilsynet) is a Norwegian administrative agency under the Norwegian Ministry of Culture and Church Affairs charged with various tasks relating to broadcasting, newspapers and films.
The Authority's tasks include
The agency was established 1 January 2005 by merging three government agencies:
The new authority was located in Fredrikstad from 20 March 2006, where the Mass Media Authority already was located, but in a new building.
In 2003, the agency was moved from Oslo to Fredrikstad from 20 March 2006, where the Mass Media Authority had been located. This was a program along wit six other directorates and inspectorates which were move out of Oslo, which had been initialized by Victor Norman, Minister of Government Administration and Reform of the Conservative Party. It cost 729 million Norwegian krone (NOK) to move the seven agencies. An official report from 2009 concluded that the agencies had lost 75 to 90% of their employees, mostly those with long seniority, and that for a while critical functions for society were dysfunctional. No costs reductions had been made, there was no significant impact on the target area, and there was little impact on the communication between the agencies and the ministries. In a 2010 report, Professor Jarle Trondal concluded that none of the agencies had become more independent after the move, despite this being one of the main arguments from the minister. Norman successor, Heidi Grande Røys of the Socialist Left Party, stated that the moving had had an important symbolic effect on the target areas, and that she did not see the lack of advantages as a reason to not move similar agencies later.
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