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{{Short description|Swedish newspaper}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2015}}
{{Infobox newspaper
| name = Norran
| logo =
| image = Norran huset.jpg
| caption = Norran huset
| type = [[Newspaper]]
| format = [[Berliner (format)|Berliner]]
| owners = [[Skelleftepress]]
| founder = Anton Wikström
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| founded = {{start date and age|1910}}
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| language = [[Swedish language|Swedish]]
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| headquarters = [[Skellefteå]]
| circulation = 22,700 (2013)
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| website = [http://norran.se''Norran'']
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'''''Norran''''' (previously named '''''Norra Västerbotten''''')<ref>{{cite news|url=http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=98&artikel=3349615|work=[[Sveriges Radio]]|language=Swedish|date=4 January 2010|accessdate=10 July 2010|title=Norran byter namn till Norran|trans-title=Norran changes its name to Norran}}</ref> is a [[Swedish language]] [[Liberalism|liberal]] [[newspaper]] published in [[Skellefteå]], [[Sweden]].

==History and profile==
''Norran'' was founded by a group of liberal newspaper enthusiasts led by Anton Wikström from Jörn in 1910.<ref name=keg>{{cite book|author1=Karl Erik Gustafsson|author2=Per Rydén|title=A History of the Press in Sweden|date=2010|publisher=Nordicom|location=Gothenburg|isbn=978-91-86523-08-4|url=http://presshistoria.se/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/A-history-of-the-Press-in-Sweden.pdf|accessdate=2 March 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150213232250/http://presshistoria.se/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/A-history-of-the-Press-in-Sweden.pdf|archivedate=13 February 2015|df=dmy-all}}</ref> The first official edition was published 1 January 1911. The paper is owned by the [[foundation (charity)|foundation]] [[Skelleftepress]]. It is published in [[Berliner format]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Newspapers Next Generation|url=http://bdu.nu/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Newspaper-next-generation-2009.pdf|date=2009|publisher=Boström Design and Development|accessdate=12 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160529000731/http://bdu.nu/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Newspaper-next-generation-2009.pdf|archive-date=29 May 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> in [[Skellefteå]], and chiefly distributed in the northern parts of [[Västerbotten County|Västerbotten]]. The stated position of the [[editorial]] is [[Liberalism|liberal]].

Most of the newspaper's local articles are written in Skellefteå, but it also has local editors in [[Arjeplog]], [[Arvidsjaur]], [[Malå]] and [[Norsjö]].

It has been published on the Internet since February 1996 and the main news service is freely available.

In correlation with the newspaper's 100-year-anniversary, the staff announced on 4 January 2010 that its name would be changed into ''Norran'', a name which has been used by its readers for decades.<ref name="medievarlden">{{cite web|title=Norra Västerbotten byter namn|language=Swedish|date=4 January 2010|accessdate=10 July 2010|work=[[Medievärlden]]|trans-title=Norra Västerbotten changes its name|url=http://www.medievarlden.se/nyheter/2010/01/norra-vasterbotten-byter-namn}}</ref> The official web site's URL was already norran.se.<ref name="medievarlden"/>

In February 2023, as the new electric battery factory Northvolt started to recruit English-speaking staff from all over the world, Norran launched an English-language news service, Norran English, edited by former UK national newspaper journalist, Paul Connolly. Norran was the first newspaper in Sweden to launch an English-language service.

==Circulation==
In 1959 the circulation of the paper was 24,000 copies.<ref name=keg/> The paper had a circulation of 23,200 copies in 2012 and 22,700 copies in 2013.<ref>{{cite web|author=Frank Eriksson Barman|title=In search of a profitability framework for the local daily newspaper industry. A case study at Göteborgs-Posten|url=http://publications.lib.chalmers.se/records/fulltext/203410/203410.pdf|publisher=Chalmers University of Technology|accessdate=7 March 2015|location=Gothenburg|format=Report|date=2014}}</ref>

==Editors-in-chief==
*[[Anton Wikström]] 1913–1935
*[[Zolo Stärner]] 1935–1953
*[[K H Wikström]] 1953–1978
*[[Rolf Brandt]] 1978–1989
*[[Stig Ericsson]] 1989–1997
*[[Birger Thuresson]] 1997–1999
*[[Ola Theander]] 1999-2004
*[[Sofia Olsson Olsén]] 2004–2006
*[[Anders Steinvall]] 2006–2008
*[[Anette Novak]] 2009–2011
*Lars Andersson 2012–<ref>[http://norran.se/hundra/norranshistoria/article1076582.ece History] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110310061230/http://norran.se/hundra/norranshistoria/article1076582.ece |date=10 March 2011 }}</ref>

== See also ==
*[[List of Swedish newspapers]]
*''[[Dik Manusch]]''

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://norran.news Norran official archive server]
*[https://norran.news/arkiv/artikel/polisen-beslagtog-40000-narkotikapiller/r3zpk08j/ Example for an archived news article]

[[Category:1910 establishments in Sweden]]
[[Category:Newspapers established in 1910]]
[[Category:Newspapers published in Sweden]]
[[Category:Swedish-language newspapers]]
[[Category:Mass media in Västerbotten County]]
[[Category:Skellefteå]]
[[Category:Västerbotten]]

Norran - Revision history

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