Dimmalætting

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Dimmalætting [ ˈdɪmːaˌlatːɪɳg ] ( Faroese for “dawn”), colloquially “ Dimma ”, is a Faroese weekly newspaper . Until the bankruptcy in autumn 2013, it was the oldest and largest daily newspaper in the Faroe Islands, based in Tórshavn . With the issue of September 13, 2013, their previous publication was discontinued. The paper has been published again since the end of 2014, now as a weekly newspaper every Friday.

Surname

The name Dimmalætting is made up of dimmi (darkness) and lætting , a noun from lætta (let, do it easily). Dimmið lættir means “day is coming ” (literally: “the darkness subsides ”). The newspaper name comes from VU Hammershaimb and is considered one of the early independent neologisms of the Faroese language .

history

The first edition of "Dimma" appeared on January 5, 1878 after a sample number dated December 8, 1877.

From the founding of the unionist Sambandsflokkurin in 1906, Dimma was its party newspaper , but has been politically independent since 1995. Until 2005, however, the newspaper's editor-in-chief was automatically represented on the Sambandsflokkurin party executive.

The Faroese name was initially printed in small letters before the Danish Amtstidene for Færøerne (district newspaper for the Faroe Islands). Accordingly, the publishing house founded in 1877 was called A / S Færø Amtstidendes Bogtrykkeri , but today it was called P / F Dimmalætting . In the early years the articles were only written in Danish ; from 1910 to 1947 the newspaper was bilingual, since then Faroese has predominated.

Until 1911 the newspaper appeared only on Saturdays, then also on Wednesdays. From the 1920s there were six instead of the previous four. After 1970 the number of pages increased to eight or more. A third edition was added and since September 1996 it has appeared five times a week from Tuesday to Saturday. In November 2004 the publication frequency was changed to Monday through Friday evening. It has been published in small format since mid-March 2005.

The Tuesday edition has been distributed free of charge to all households in the Faroe Islands since April 5, 2005 in response to competing advertising papers.

After the editorial content of the dimma.fo website was initially only available to subscribers, it has been available to everyone since 2008.

At the beginning of 2010 there was a change in the ownership structure, with which the shares of the Samuelsen family were taken over by the investment company "Løkir". Lisbeth Lindenskov Petersen , a daughter of Georg Lindenskov Samuelsen , had been the newspaper's largest shareholder up to that point.

Until the bankruptcy in 2013, Dimma had a circulation of 8,500 copies nationwide (13,300 in 1991) and appeared five times a week.

Leaf line

Georg Lindenskov Samuelsen deserves special mention among the many heads that the newspaper has had in the course of its 100-year history . He worked for the paper practically his entire life and was at the top of the paper for nearly half a century. In addition, for many years he was completely on his own when writing the articles.

daily newspaper

Weekly newspaper

  • 2014 - Sveinur Tróndarson

printing house

The newspaper's publisher owned the Team 85 advertising agency and the Prentmiðstøðin printing company .

Prentmiðstøðin is now owned by u. a. Sosialurin passed over. The printing house has the only rotary press in the Faroe Islands. The former competitor Sosialurin is also printed there.

Dimmalætting's printing house merged with Hestprent to form Føroyaprent in 2004 . Føroyaprent also took over the building and equipment on Hoyvíksvegur from Dimmalætting. In April 2010 Dimmalætting sold its ownership shares to p / f Hestoy.

Since April 2008, the weekly business newspaper Vinnuvitan, together with the free advertising paper Vikublaðið, also belonged to the publisher. Vinnuvitan now appears only as an online edition.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dimman fingið nýggjan Eigara , vev.fo, Jan. 14, 2010
  2. ↑ Søgan um okkum - Søga blaðsins . September 5, 2016. Archived from the original on September 1, 2016. dimma.fo (in Faroese)
  3. ↑ Smiðjan , prent.fo
  4. ↑ Prentmiðstøðin , prent.fo
  5. ↑ sogan , foroyaprent.fo
  6. ↑ dimmalætting - arkprent , foroyaprent.fo
  7. ↑ Vinnuvitan ( Memento from September 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), vinnuvitan.fo