Sarpsborg Arbeiderblad is a local newspaper in Sarpsborg

Sarpsborg

is a city and municipality in Østfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Sarpsborg.Sarpsborg is part of the fifth largest urban area in Norway when paired with neighbouring Fredrikstad...

, 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...

. It is published six days a week. The chief editor is Eirik Moe.

It was established in 1929, after the demise of Østfold Arbeiderblad

Østfold Arbeiderblad

Østfold Arbeiderblad was a newspaper published in Sarpsborg in Østfold county, Norway.It was started in 1921 as the regional newspaper for the Norwegian Labour Party. In the same year the Labour Party had lost its newspaper in the region, Smaalenenes Social-Demokrat in Fredrikstad, which had...

, and was affiliated with the Labour Party

Norwegian Labour Party

The Labour Party is a social-democratic political party in Norway. It is the senior partner in the current Norwegian government as part of the Red-Green Coalition, and its leader, Jens Stoltenberg, is the current Prime Minister of Norway....

. However, the newspaper ultimately became non-partisan. It was stopped between October 1940 and May 1945, during the German occupation of Norway.

It has a circulation of 14,518, of whom 14,198 are subscribers. It is published by the company Sarpsborg Arbeiderblad AS, which is owned 100% by A-pressen

A-pressen

A-pressen is one of the three largest media companies in Norway and was established on May 27, 1948 with the name Norsk Arbeiderpresse . It got its present name in 1994...

.