Osloavisen
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Osloavisen was a short-lived local newspaper in Oslo
Oslo
Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

, Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

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History

It was owned by Schibsted, and established in 1987. Its first and only editor-in-chief was Andreas Norland
Andreas Norland
Andreas Norland is a Norwegian newspaper editor. He is known as editor of three large newspapers Adresseavisen, Verdens Gang and Aftenposten, and has also held other positions in the Schibsted media conglomerate.-Early life:...

. Reportedly, the idea of a local newspaper in Oslo came from Einar Hanseid, who succeeded Norland in the position he left behind; as chief editor of Verdens Gang
Verdens Gang
Verdens Gang , generally known under the abbreviation VG, is a Norwegian tabloid newspaper...

. Osloavisen existed for eight months before Schibsted shut it down, and the conglomerate reportedly lost .
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