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
- The Reykjavík Grapevine – describes itself as a newspaper; publishes some 18 issues a year
- – weekly news for the West Coast of Iceland
- – weekly news for the North of Iceland
- Viðskiptablaðið – weekly business newspaper
Current bi-weekly newspapers[]
Current online newspapers[]
- IceNews
- Kjarninn
- Viljinn
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
- – weekly newspaper
- Fréttatíminn – founded 2010; weekly news for the capital area
- – weekly newspaper
- Ísafold
- – weekly newspaper
- Þjóðviljinn – socialist newspaper; 1936–1992
- Tíminn – agrarian daily; the Progressive Party
- – weekly socialist newspaper
- Vísir – founded in 1910 initially as 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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