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wp-block-heading">Our history</h4> <h1 class="wp-block-heading">It all started in 1889 when Norwegian sea captain Magnus Andersen founded the newspaper <em>Norges Sj酶fartstidende</em>.</h1> <div class="wp-block-group"><div class="wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained"> <div class="wp-block-group"><div class="wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained"> <h4 class="label dot wp-block-heading">Norway, 1889 -1890</h4> <hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" /> </div></div> <div class="wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex"> <div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow" style="flex-basis:45%"> <p>DN Media Group has a long history. Over the decades, it has evolved into Norway’s leading business daily <em>Dagens N忙ringsliv</em> (<em>DN</em>), the profits from which have helped launch a fleet of international publications covering shipping, energy, seafood, and aquaculture.</p> </div> <div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow" style="flex-basis:65%"> <p>The last few decades of the 19th century were good ones for Norwegian shipping. Norway was among the world鈥檚 leading maritime nations, in the same top division as Great Britain and the United States.  </p> <p>Norwegian vessels sailed the seven seas, generating cash for their owners and livelihoods for a growing number of seafarers. But Norway鈥檚 merchant fleet was full of old and poorly maintained ships, known for their unhealthy working conditions on board. In short: It seemed a perfect time to start a dedicated shipping newspaper.</p> </div> </div> </div></div> <div style="height:7rem" aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-spacer"></div> <div class="wp-block-cover alignfull has-parallax has-custom-content-position is-position-top-center"><span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-cover__background has-green-dark-background-color has-background-dim-90 has-background-dim"></span><div role="img" class="wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-1117 has-parallax" style="background-position:50% 50%;background-image:url(http://www.dngroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Magnus_Andersen.jpg)"></div><div class="wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow"> <div class="wp-block-group"><div class="wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained"> <h4 class="label dot wp-block-heading">Humble beginnings</h4> <hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-green-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-green-background-color has-background is-style-wide" /> </div></div> <div class="wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-2 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex"> <div class="wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow" style="flex-basis:40%"> <figure class="wp-block-image alignleft"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" width="481" height="597" src="http://www.dngroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Magnus_Andersen.jpg" alt="Magnus Andersen, a sea captain and adventurer, founded Norges Sj酶fartstidende (The Norwegian Shipping Times) Photo: Norsk Maritimt Museum" class="wp-image-1117" srcset="https://www.dngroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Magnus_Andersen.jpg 481w, https://www.dngroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Magnus_Andersen-242x300.jpg 242w" sizes="(max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Magnus Andersen, a sea captain and adventurer, founded <br><em>Norges Sj酶fartstidende (Norway’s Shipping Times)</em> in 1889.<br>Photo: Norsk Maritimt Museum</figcaption></figure> </div> <div class="wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow" style="flex-basis:60%"> <h2 class="has-white-color has-text-color wp-block-heading">Humble beginnings</h2> <h4 class="label has-yellow-color has-text-color wp-block-heading">1890 </h4> <p><em>Norges Sj酶fartstidende (</em>literally<em>, “Norway鈥檚 Shipping Times”)</em> is launched on January 1. The debut issue contains an upbeat economic forecast, pledges to work for improvement in shipping standards and promote internationalization of Norway鈥檚 economy. “Norway must do more to make itself a force in foreign markets,” writes the new newspaper鈥檚 founder, Magnus Andersen. </p> <p>The first issue also contains a poem, but not enough advertisements to fill the front page. </p> <p>Andersen, a former sea captain, quickly learns the harsh realities of the newspaper world – fierce competition, disloyal readers, unstable revenue and outsiders trying to meddle with a newspaper鈥檚 priorities and opinions. All these issues will continue to be important parts of the newspaper鈥檚 coverage and challenges for the next hundred years and more.</p> <h4 class="label has-yellow-color has-text-color wp-block-heading">1894 </h4> <p class="label">Andersen gets squeezed out of the paper he started, amid large financial losses and dwindling support from readers and advertisers who do not share his enthusiasm for more Norwegian self-rule in its troubled union with Sweden. He has also allowed his paper to drift while taking a year off to sail a replica of the <em>Gokstad</em> Viking ship from Norway to the 1893 Chicago World Fair.  </p> <div style="height:4rem" aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-spacer"></div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="wp-block-group"><div class="wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained"> <h4 class="label dot wp-block-heading">Norway gains independence from Sweden</h4> <hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide" /> </div></div> <div class="wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-3 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex"> <div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow" style="flex-basis:40%"> <p class="label"><em>Norges Sj酶fartstidende</em> is acquired by a substantial group of shipowners looking for a mouthpiece. They’re led by powerful businessman Thomas Fearnley (son of a famous artist with the same name). Other initial shareholders include two generations of the Fred Olsen shipowner dynasty. Magnus Andersen, angry and disappointed, moves on to found a competing paper called <em>Kysten</em> (literally, “The Coast”).</p> <h4 class="label has-yellow-color has-text-color wp-block-heading">1905</h4> <p>Norway鈥檚 long battle for independence from Sweden culminates with a referendum resulting in a resounding “YES.” But <em>Norges Sj酶fartstidende</em> avoids writing about these historic events, possibly because of strong ties between Sweden鈥檚 royals and Thomas Fearnley, the main shareholder who preferred to uphold the union. </p> </div> <div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow" style="flex-basis:33.33%"> <figure class="wp-block-image alignwide size-full"><img decoding="async" width="430" height="640" src="https://www.dngroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Fearnley_painting-3-edited.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-1521" srcset="https://www.dngroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Fearnley_painting-3-edited.jpg 430w, https://www.dngroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Fearnley_painting-3-edited-202x300.jpg 202w" sizes="(max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Financier Thomas Fearnley organized a consortium of shipowners looking for a mouthpiece, and acquired <em>Norges Sj酶fartstidende</em>. Painting by Asta N酶rregaard. Photo: Per St氓le Bugjerde</figcaption></figure> </div> <div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow" style="flex-basis:26.67%"><div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="alignright size-full"><img decoding="async" width="288" height="380" src="http://www.dngroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/12898.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-1124" srcset="https://www.dngroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/12898.jpg 288w, https://www.dngroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/12898-227x300.jpg 227w" sizes="(max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Andersen on his Viking ship replica, which he sailed to Chicago in 1893. His lengthy absence turned out to be disastrous for the newspaper. Photo: Norsk Maritimt Museum</figcaption></figure></div></div> </div> <div style="height:7rem" aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-spacer"></div> <div class="wp-block-cover alignfull has-parallax" style="min-height:40vh;aspect-ratio:unset;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-cover__background has-green-dark-background-color has-background-dim-80 has-background-dim"></span><div role="img" class="wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-1270 has-parallax" style="background-position:50% 50%;background-image:url(http://www.dngroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Helga_Bjornskau.png)"></div><div class="wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow"> <div class="wp-block-group label dot is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-6 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex"> <div class="wp-block-group"><div class="wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained"> <h4 class="label dot wp-block-heading">Leading lady</h4> <hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-green-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-green-background-color has-background is-style-wide" /> </div></div> <h4 class="wp-block-heading">Helga Bj酶rnskau, a young woman who had joined the paper as an office assistant, was named head of business operations in 1894. At that point in time, Norwegian women did not even have the right to vote. She kept the top job for more than 20 years, while male editors came and went. </h4> <div style="height:4rem" aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-spacer"></div> </div> </div></div> <div class="wp-block-group alignwide"><div class="wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained"> <div class="wp-block-group"><div class="wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained"> <h4 class="label dot wp-block-heading">1912 – 1933</h4> <hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide" /> </div></div> <div class="wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-4 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex"> <div class="wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow" style="flex-basis:60%"> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Bigger business</h2> <h4 class="label has-yellow-color has-text-color wp-block-heading">1912</h4> <p><em>Norges Sj酶fartstidende</em> merges with <em>Kysten</em> and a small journal called <em>Norges Handelstidende</em> (literally, “Norway鈥檚 Commercial Times”). The newly merged paper renames itself <em>Norges Handels og Sj酶fartstidende</em> (<em>NHST</em>). It expands its coverage to business beyond shipping. <em>Kysten鈥檚</em> strong-willed editor, Knut Domaas, becomes editor of the merged newspaper just in time to guide its coverage of the sinking of the <em>Titanic</em> in April 1912.</p> <h4 class="label has-yellow-color has-text-color wp-block-heading">1915</h4> <p>The paper celebrates its 25th anniversary in the shadow of World War I, in which many merchant ships are torpedoed and scores of Norwegian sailors lost at sea. Business is brisk at <em>NHST</em> as Norway experiences a war-related economic boom, with great demand for business news and advertising space for shipping projects.</p> <h4 class="label has-yellow-color has-text-color wp-block-heading">1923</h4> <p><em>NHST</em> launches a fisheries newspaper called <em>Fiskeren</em> <em>(The Fisherman)</em>, hoping to develop it into an industry-wide European journal. That does not happen, and it is sold off quickly, then bought back 75 years later when similar ideas pop up.</p> </div> <div class="wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow" style="flex-basis:40%"><div class="wp-block-image is-style-default"> <figure class="alignright size-full"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="815" height="1024" src="https://www.dngroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/rammebilde2.png" alt="" class="wp-image-2059" srcset="https://www.dngroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/rammebilde2.png 815w, https://www.dngroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/rammebilde2-239x300.png 239w, https://www.dngroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/rammebilde2-768x965.png 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 815px) 100vw, 815px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Knut Domaas was editor for 29 years before retiring in 1943. Painting by Kolbj酶rn Juel S酶rlie. Photo: Per St氓le Bugjerde</figcaption></figure></div></div> </div> </div></div> <div style="height:7rem" aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-spacer"></div> <div class="wp-block-cover alignfull has-parallax has-custom-content-position is-position-top-center"><span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-90 has-background-dim wp-block-cover__gradient-background has-background-gradient" style="background:radial-gradient(rgb(0,0,0) 0%,rgb(0,0,0) 100%)"></span><div role="img" class="wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-1448 has-parallax" style="background-position:50% 50%;background-image:url(https://www.dngroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/cologne-gce0eb2340_1920.jpg)"></div><div class="wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow"> <div class="wp-block-group"><div class="wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained"> <h4 class="label dot wp-block-heading">1933 – 1945 / The Depression and World War II</h4> <hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-green-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-green-background-color has-background" /> </div></div> <div class="wp-block-group"><div class="wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained"> <div style="height:3rem" aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-spacer"></div> </div></div> <div class="wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-5 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex"> <div class="wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow" style="flex-basis:40%"></div> <div class="wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow" style="flex-basis:60%"> <h2 class="has-green-light-color has-text-color wp-block-heading">Dark Decades</h2> <h4 class="label has-yellow-color has-text-color wp-block-heading">1933 </h4> <p>With fascism and Nazi Germany on the rise in Europe, Domaas positions his paper to the far right. In 1933, he prints the infamous editorial “More Fascism, Mr. Prime Minister,” suggesting that Norway could learn a thing or two from Hitler and Mussolini. The headline was later reused as the title of an academic study of attitudes in Norway鈥檚 non-socialist press in the 1930s.</p> <h4 class="label has-yellow-color has-text-color wp-block-heading">1940</h4> <p>Under German occupation, all Norwegian media including <em>NHST</em> are subject to heavy Nazi censorship and directives to print Nazi propaganda. Unlike some other papers, <em>NHST</em> is allowed to keep its editor, as <em>NHST</em> is deemed “loyal” by the puppet Nazi regime. In 1943 the paper shrewdly avoids a forced merger with other Oslo dailies, winning approval to keep publishing as a non-political weekly with only economic content.</p> <p>After the war, a review by Norway鈥檚 state prosecutor harshly criticizes <em>NHST</em>鈥檚 policies in the years leading up to May 1943, accusing it of printing German-friendly articles and hateful coverage against Norway鈥檚 allies, especially Great Britain. There are no objections to the weekly that was published from 1943 until the war ended in 1945.</p> <h4 class="label has-yellow-color has-text-color wp-block-heading">Shrewd move</h4> <p>The wartime weekly featured a regular commodities column. To whet the reader鈥檚 appetite, the first four columns just happened to discuss commodities that were in great demand because of war-related shortages – potatoes, sugar, coffee and tea.</p> <div style="height:4rem" aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-spacer"></div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="wp-block-group alignwide"><div class="wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained"> <div class="wp-block-group"><div class="wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained"> <h4 class="label dot wp-block-heading">Post-war</h4> <hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide" /> </div></div> <div class="wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-6 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex"> <div class="wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow" style="flex-basis:60%"> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Golden Years</h2> <h4 class="label has-yellow-color has-text-color wp-block-heading">1947</h4> <p>Shipowner Thomas Fredrik Olsen becomes <em>NHST</em>‘s largest shareholder and chairman of the board, reflecting a gradual change in ownership of the newspaper from the Fearnley sphere to the Olsens’. He had first joined the board in 1939. Under his leadership of the newspaper’s board, the Olsens take on a clear role as dominant owners for the first time.</p> <p>In the post-war decades, Norwegian shipowners are doing well, and so is the newspaper covering them.</p> <h4 class="label has-yellow-color has-text-color wp-block-heading">1959</h4> <p><em>NHST </em>exposes illegal ammunition exports from a government-owned producer to Cuba, where a fascist regime is embroiled in civil war. The ammunition shipment arrives after Fidel Castro鈥檚 rebels have won the war. The story wins <em>Narvesenprisen</em>, the most sought-after press prize at the time. The story, by soon-to-be editor Terje Baalsrud, heralds an era of crusade-style journalism aimed at perceived shady manoeuvring by the ruling Labour Party to turn Norway into a socialist state.</p> <div style="height:4rem" aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-spacer"></div> </div> <div class="wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow" style="flex-basis:40%"><div class="wp-block-image is-style-default"> <figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="http://www.dngroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/NTBThomas-Olsen-660x1024.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-1755" width="495" height="768" srcset="https://www.dngroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/NTBThomas-Olsen-660x1024.jpg 660w, https://www.dngroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/NTBThomas-Olsen-193x300.jpg 193w, https://www.dngroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/NTBThomas-Olsen-768x1192.jpg 768w, https://www.dngroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/NTBThomas-Olsen-990x1536.jpg 990w, https://www.dngroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/NTBThomas-Olsen-1320x2048.jpg 1320w, https://www.dngroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/NTBThomas-Olsen-scaled.jpg 1650w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">OSLO 1953. Shipowner Thomas Olsen (1897-1969) raised his family麓s profile as owners, becoming chairman of the board in 1947. He was the grandfather of current chairman, Anette S. Olsen. Photo: NTB</figcaption></figure></div></div> </div> </div></div> <div style="height:7rem" aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-spacer"></div> <div class="wp-block-cover alignfull is-light has-parallax has-custom-content-position is-position-top-center"><span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-cover__background has-yellow-background-color has-background-dim-100 has-background-dim"></span><div role="img" class="wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-1266 has-parallax" style="background-position:50% 50%;background-image:url(http://www.dngroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Cameron_Knarbakk.jpg)"></div><div class="wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow"> <div class="wp-block-group"><div class="wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained"> <h1 class="wp-block-heading">TABLOID TIMES</h1> </div></div> <div class="wp-block-columns alignwide are-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex"> <div class="wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow" style="flex-basis:40%"> <div style="height:5px" aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-spacer"></div> <div class="wp-block-image is-style-default has-typography-color"> <figure class="alignleft size-full"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="615" height="480" src="http://www.dngroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Cameron_Knarbakk.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-1266" srcset="https://www.dngroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Cameron_Knarbakk.jpg 615w, https://www.dngroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Cameron_Knarbakk-300x234.jpg 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">With the newspaper on the verge of bankruptcy, Eric Cameron and Jan Erik Knarbakk led a major turnaround effort to modernize it. They became joint editors-in-chief in 1982. Photo: NTB Scanpix</figcaption></figure></div></div> <div class="wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow" style="flex-basis:60%"> <h4 class="label has-green-color has-text-color wp-block-heading"> 1980</h4> <p>With the shipping industry struggling in the aftermath of the 1973 oil price shock and subsequent recession, the newspaper and its board launch a dramatic turnaround effort to avoid bankruptcy. <em>Norges Handels og Sj酶fartstidende</em> is to become a paper covering the entire business sector, moving beyond the limitations of a niche shipping paper. It also changes its format to tabloid, becoming a morning newspaper instead of publishing in the afternoon, and ceasing publication on Saturday, after most Norwegians had won the day off. </p> <p>The bold changes are masterminded by Jan Erik Knarbakk, a 28-year-old editor who already has extensive background from the tabloid press. Knarbakk works closely with another young talent, Eric Cameron, and the two become joint editors-in-chief in 1982.<br></p> <h4 class="label has-green-color has-text-color wp-block-heading">1984</h4> <p>Financier Erik Must joins the board, after steadily investing in <em>NHST</em> stock for more than a decade. Trygve Hegnar, editor of a competing media company, also buys stock but is rejected by the board. Various members of the Must family remain significant shareholders.</p> <h4 class="label has-green-color has-text-color wp-block-heading">1985</h4> <p>After some top-level personnel changes, a fearless and creative business journalist becomes the paper鈥檚 new editor. K氓re Valebrokk is also a former businessman selling heavy machinery. Building on the early successes of his tabloid predecessors, Valebrokk seizes opportunities offered by the golden years known as the yuppy era of so-called Young Urban Professionals. Typical content includes news and comment from the revived Oslo Stock Exchange, personality profiles on the newly rich and their noisy clashes with stalwarts of Norway鈥檚 business community. </p> <p>Valebrokk coins a motto: <em>En fri avis</em>, “an independent newspaper,” signalling that it is independent of everyone, including its shareholders.</p> <div style="height:4rem" aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-spacer"></div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="wp-block-group alignwide"><div class="wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained"> <div class="wp-block-group"><div class="wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained"> <h4 class="label dot wp-block-heading">Becoming <em>Dagens N忙ringsliv</em></h4> <hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide" /> </div></div> <div class="wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex"> <div class="wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow" style="flex-basis:60%"> <h4 class="label has-yellow-color has-text-color wp-block-heading">1987</h4> <p>After just two years on the job, Valebrokk convinces shareholders to rename the newspaper <em>Dagens N忙ringsliv</em> (<em>The Norwegian Business Daily</em>, abbreviated to <em>DN</em> ) and resume publishing on Saturdays. </p> <p>The new <em>DN l酶rdag</em> Saturday edition with in-depth stories, becomes highly successful. The following year, <em>DN</em> starts publishing on peach-colored paper, known in Europe as “financial pink.” It also ventures into digital news distribution for the first time, picking a fight with international wire services by launching an agency called <em>DNX</em>. Later on, the agency diversifies into energy news, paving the way for the company鈥檚 energy publication <em>Europower</em>. </p> <h4 class="label has-green-color has-text-color wp-block-heading">Fun fact: </h4> <p>Readers were invited to propose a new name for the newspaper. A competition attracted more than 12,000 responses with almost 7,000 different name proposals. The winner was given a Lancia car.</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">News for the world</h2> <h4 class="label has-yellow-color has-text-color wp-block-heading">1990</h4> <p>The company lavishly celebrates its 100th anniversary, flush with cash from the profitable 1980s but worries there may be a limit to the number of readers willing to pay for a business newspaper that鈥檚 only printed in Norwegian. “We鈥檙e running out of Norwegians,” Valebrokk famously declares, and goes on to launch <em>TradeWinds</em>, a shipping weekly in English, printed on blue paper in Norway and aimed at the global market. Headed by veteran business reporter Trond Lillest酶len, <em>TradeWinds</em> promises “to ask all those nasty questions that nobody else asks and take a close look at all those unlit corners of the fast-moving world of shipping.” <em>TradeWinds</em> is headquartered and edited in Oslo with stories from reporters in shipping capitals including London, Athens, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Connecticut in the US. A major office is eventually set up in Singapore.</p> <h4 class="label has-yellow-color has-text-color wp-block-heading">1996</h4> <p>The group launches <em>Upstream</em>, an oil and gas weekly printed on peach-coloured paper and modelled on <em>TradeWinds. </em>It also builds a large network of international reporters with editors in Oslo. Headed by <em>TradeWinds</em> veteran Erik Means, it pledges to be “a new and distinct voice for an oil and gas industry too long forced to survive on a diet of lukewarm journalism.”  It takes several years for either paper to become profitable. <em>TradeWinds</em> and <em>Upstream</em> staff start sharing offices in several places around the world. They’re eventually joined by colleagues from fisheries and seafood publication <em>IntraFish</em>, acquired in 2001 as a third new venture for the world market. Meanwhile, <em>NHST Asia PTE</em> is established in Singapore as an independent company.</p> <h4 class="label has-yellow-color has-text-color wp-block-heading">1999</h4> <p>Valebrokk leaves to become head of <em>TV2</em>, Norway’s commercial television channel. He is replaced by two men; Gunnar Bj酶rkav氓g as group CEO and Amund Djuve as editor-in-chief and publisher of <em>Dagens N忙ringsliv</em>. </p> <p>Under Djuve, a staunch supporter of investigative journalism, <em>DN</em> reporters regularly win prizes and fame for exposing Norway鈥檚 less attractive realities, including corruption and white-collar crime. Meanwhile, global financial instability repeatedly comes back to haunt the group鈥檚 existing international ventures while complicating new ones.<br></p> </div> <div class="wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow" style="flex-basis:40%"><div class="wp-block-image is-style-default"> <figure class="alignright size-full"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="610" height="420" src="http://www.dngroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Valebrokk_1987_scaled.png" alt="" class="wp-image-1279" srcset="https://www.dngroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Valebrokk_1987_scaled.png 610w, https://www.dngroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Valebrokk_1987_scaled-300x207.png 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Visionary K氓re Valebrokk led spectacular changes at the newspaper, including the tricky 1987 name change when this photo was taken. He later started the company’s international expansion with English-language publications, declaring that “we’re running out of Norwegians.” Photo: Thoralf Olsen</figcaption></figure></div></div> </div> </div></div> <div style="height:7rem" aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-spacer"></div> <div class="wp-block-cover alignfull has-parallax has-custom-content-position is-position-top-center"><span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-cover__background has-green-dark-background-color has-background-dim-80 has-background-dim"></span><div role="img" class="wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-2111 has-parallax" style="background-position:50% 50%;background-image:url(http://www.dngroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/pexels-naren-y-15103965.jpg)"></div><div class="wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow"> <div class="wp-block-group"><div class="wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained"> <h4 class="label dot wp-block-heading">2000 – Present</h4> <hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-green-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-green-background-color has-background" /> </div></div> <div class="wp-block-group"><div class="wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained"> <div style="height:3rem" aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-spacer"></div> </div></div> <div class="wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex"> <div class="wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow" style="flex-basis:40%"></div> <div class="wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow" style="flex-basis:60%"> <div class="wp-block-group"><div class="wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained"> <h1 class="has-yellow-color has-text-color wp-block-heading">New Horizons</h1> <h4 class="label has-yellow-color has-text-color wp-block-heading">2000</h4> <p>In the late 1990s, <em>DN</em> explores various ways of digital publishing. In 2000, <em>DN.no</em> is launched as an open business news website free of charge, independent of <em>Dagens N忙ringsliv</em>‘s organization and printed newspaper. It鈥檚 organized as a separate company with its own editorial staff and management, and has little interaction with the printed edition. </p> <h4 class="label has-yellow-color has-text-color wp-block-heading">2002</h4> </div></div> <div class="wp-block-group"><div class="wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained"> <p>Anette S. Olsen, daughter of shipowner Fred Olsen, becomes chairman of the board.</p> <h4 class="label has-yellow-color has-text-color wp-block-heading">2007</h4> <p><em>DN</em> launches <em>D2</em>, a glossy and highly profitable weekly covering lifestyle, fashion and more. Its core audience is playfully described as “young people, but not so young they don鈥檛 have money.” Meanwhile, the group renames itself, somewhat simplifying “<em>Aksjeselskapet Norges Handels og Sj酶fartstidende</em>” to “<em>NHST Media Group</em>.” It also ventures into public relations, acquiring Swedish PR firm <em>Newsdesk </em>and renaming it <em>MyNewsdesk.</em> <em>IntraFish</em> acquires several competitors, making it the world鈥檚 largest newsroom for fisheries and seafood markets.</p> <h4 class="label has-yellow-color has-text-color wp-block-heading">2008</h4> <p><em>NHST</em> and its publications are badly hit by the global finance crisis. At <em>DN</em>, still the group鈥檚 main profit generator, 60 percent of advertising revenue disappears almost overnight. Weeks of panic and despair follow, forcing major cutbacks and layoffs, and delay of new product launches. A newspaper covering wind and renewable energy called <em>Recharge</em> is, however, allowed to go ahead.</p> <p class="has-yellow-color has-text-color"><strong>2014</strong></p> <p>Ideas of integration take hold in DN, as the staff of <em>DN.no</em> moves into <em>Dagens N忙ringsliv</em>鈥檚 newsroom, and both the printed paper and the website are placed under the same editorial leadership. </p> <h4 class="label has-yellow-color has-text-color wp-block-heading">2015</h4> <p class="has-white-color has-text-color"><em>DN</em> launches <em>DN Investor</em>, a market service built by startup Norkon Computing Systems. <em>DN</em> also invests in Norkon, which later expands internationally selling software as a service solutions to high-end clients like <em>The Telegraph </em>(UK) and <em>B酶rsen </em>(Denmark).</p> <h4 class="label has-yellow-color has-text-color wp-block-heading">2017</h4> <p class="has-white-color has-text-color"><em>DN</em> launches <em>DNX Studio</em>, entering the growing market for content advertising, an area seen as controversial in parts of the Norwegian press. The venture quickly turns a profit, forcing executives to admit they should have taken this step earlier. The <em>DNX</em> name, meanwhile, was recycled from the paper鈥檚 first venture into digital financial news almost 30 years earlier. </p> <p class="has-white-color has-text-color"></p> <h4 class="label has-yellow-color has-text-color wp-block-heading">2018 </h4> <p class="has-white-color has-text-color">Group CEO Gunnar Bj酶rkav氓g resigns after 18 years in the job. New CEO is Hege Yli Melhus Ask, with background from insurance company <em>Gjensidige</em> and electricity provider <em>Hafslund</em>.</p> <p>The group acquires Paris-based media monitoring firm <em>Mention</em>, adding it to its software as a service business. Meanwhile, <em>NHST’</em>s nautical charts operations are sold off after supporting the newspaper mothership for more than a century. </p> <h4 class="label has-yellow-color has-text-color wp-block-heading">2020</h4> <p class="has-white-color has-text-color"><em>NHST</em> digests the surprise departure of group CEO Hege Yli Melhus Ask, after less than two years in the job. She is succeeded by Trond Sundnes, a former investigative reporter and foreign correspondent at <em>DN</em> and top executive of <em>NHST Global Publications</em>.</p> <h4 class="label has-yellow-color has-text-color wp-block-heading">2021</h4> <p><em>NHST Media Group</em> turns its parent into purely a holding company with no employees, naming it <em>NHST Holdin</em>g. Operations, meanwhile, are reorganized into two groups, one for the media business (<em>NHST Media Group</em>) and one for its “software as a service” activities (<em>NHST Marketing Technolog</em>y). </p> <h4 class="label has-yellow-color has-text-color wp-block-heading">2022</h4> <p>Editor-in-chief and publisher in <em>Dagens N忙ringsliv</em> Amund Djuve leaves his position after 22 years, to become the group’s director of publications.</p> <p>Veteran <em>DN</em> reporter and news editor Janne Johannessen becomes the newspaper<em>‘s</em> first female editor-in-chief. </p> <p>The company launches two new titles. <em>Hydrogen Insight</em> is spun off renewables publication <em>Recharge</em> as a hydrogen specialist title. <em>Kystens N忙ringsliv</em> is launched to cover Norway鈥檚 maritime industries, building on the group’s fisheries journalism history and bringing the <em>Kysten</em> name back to the <em>NHST</em> family after more than a century.</p> <h4 class="label has-yellow-color has-text-color wp-block-heading">2023</h4> <p><em>NHST Media Group</em> renames itself <em>DN Media Group</em>, reflecting the importance and history of the company鈥檚 flagship newspaper <em>DN</em>. The media group now consists of 10 publications, covering business and society in Norway, and shipping, seafood, aquaculture and energy globally. With headquarters in Oslo, and key offices in Bergen, London, Singapore and Stamford, the group is characterized by being Norwegian with a global mindset, much like founder Magnus Andersen back in the 1800s.</p> <div style="height:4rem" aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-spacer"></div> </div></div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-10 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex"> <div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow" style="flex-basis:40%"> <p class="has-small-font-size">Contributed by Morten M酶st, longtime <em>DN</em> journalist and author of <em>Making Waves</em>, a book on the history  of the company, released in 2015 by <em>Gyldendal Akademisk</em> publishing firm. 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