10 Facts About Dagbladet

Traditionally Dagbladet is considered the main liberal newspaper of Norway, with a generally liberal progressive editorial outlook, to some extent associated with the movement of cultural radicalism in Scandinavian history.

Dagbladet is published six days a week and includes the additional feature magazine Magasinet every Saturday.

Dagbladet has played an important role in development of new editorial products in Norway.

Dagbladet was previously owned by the privately held company Berner Gruppen.

Online edition of Dagbladet was launched on 8 March 1995 following Brønnøysunds Avis, a local newspaper.

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In 1988, Dagbladet was criticised for the aggressive use of photographs of grieving next-of-kin in the aftermath of the Flight 710 air-disaster.

On 10 November 1989, the day after the fall of the Berlin wall, Dagbladet made no reference to the fall on its front page and instead featured the headline "Let the children swear", a quote from child psychologist Magne Raundalen.

In May 2011, Dagbladet lost a libel case in Oslo District Court against ambulance driver Erik Schjenken for printing factual errors about the Paramedics incident in Oslo 2007, and was ordered to pay a compensation of 1 million Nkr.

Editor of the culture-and-opinion sections in Dagbladet Geir Ramnefjell dismissed the criticism of the 2013 drawing, stating that it was an "innocent ridicule of religious practice and nothing more than that".

Dagbladet defended the caricature in an editorial 3 June 2013.