Universitas (newspaper)
Weekly newspaper edited and written by students in Oslo, Norway / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Universitas is a weekly newspaper edited and written by students in Oslo, Norway. It has its editorial offices at the University of Oslo and has been published since 1946. With a weekly circulation of 17,000 and 36 publications a year,[1] as well as around 30,000 page viewings a week,[2] Universitas is one of the largest student papers in Europe. It is distributed every Thursday morning on 28 places of higher learning throughout the greater Oslo region.[3]
Type | Weekly paper |
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Format | Tabloid |
Publisher | Amedia |
Editor-in-chief | Alida de Lange d'Agostino |
Language | Norwegian, English |
Headquarters | University of Oslo |
Country | Norway |
Website | universitas |
Universitas employs around 30 journalists and photographers paid per contribution as freelancers, in addition to a full time news editor and editor in chief. The paper also employs a full time Chief Operating Officer, and has a standing editorial council. Current editor in chief is Alida de Lange d'Agostino. News editor is Vilhelm Ofstad Bjørgul.[4]
The newspaper is publicly funded through the fiscal budget as student welfare, and is partly paid for by the students' semester fee.[5] The publication's first editor was the to-be professor in literature and Henrik Ibsen expert, Daniel Haakonsen.
The newspaper has produced a large array of norwegian writers, journalists, critics, editors, as well as several members of the Norwegian Public Broadcasting Corporation.[6]