Fylket Explained

Fylket (The County) was a Norwegian newspaper published by the Center Party in Molde from 1927 to 1999.^{[1] [2]} The paper appeared three times a week.^[3] In 1928, it took over the rival paper Molde Annonceblad.^[4] Fylket was shut down after its circulation figures were halved during the 1990s. In 1999 it had a circulation of just over 1,700 newspapers, nearly 1,000 fewer than the year before. The reason for the drop in subscribers was mainly changes in calculating the circulation. The supplement Landbruksnytt was previously counted as part of Fylkets circulation.^[5]

Fylket was owned by the agricultural organizations in Møre og Romsdal. Major structural changes in its owners contributed greatly to the paper's closure.

Notes and References

1. Moen, Eirik. Då romdalingane vart avislesarar. In: Bjørn Austigard & Rolf Strand (eds.), Romsdal Sogelag Årsskrift 1997, pp. 51–59. Molde: Romsdal Sogelag, p. 57.
2. https://snl.no/Fylket Store norske leksikon: Fylket.
3. Øverås, Asbjørn. 1928. Romsdals soga: Fornalderen og sogetida. Trondheim: Romsdals ungdomssamlag, p. 206.
4. Skreien, Norvall. 2010. Jakob Bolstad – boktrykkeren fra Voss som skapte avishistorie i Romsdal. In: Bjørn Austigard et al. (eds.), Romsdal Sogelag Årsskrift 2010, pp. 27–38. Molde: Romsdal Sogelag, p. 29.
5. Stamm 1997: Presse- und Medienhandbuch: Leitfaden durch Presse und Werbung = Annual Directory through Press and Advertising = Guide annuaire à travers la presse et la publicité. 1992. Essen: Stamm-Verlag, p. 97.