Editing Verdens Gang (section)

==History and profile==
''VG'' was established by members of the [[Norwegian resistance movement]] shortly after the country was liberated from [[German occupation of Norway in World War II|German occupation]] in 1945.<ref name=elsh8>{{cite journal|author1=Epp Lauk|author2=Svennik Hoyer|author-link2=Svennik Høyer|journal=Central European Journal of Communication|title=Recreating journalism after censorship. Generational shifts and professional ambiguities among journalists after changes in the political systems|url=http://ptks.pl/cejc/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Vol_1_No1_Fall_2008_Lauk_Hoyer.pdf|date=Fall 2008|volume=1|issue=1|access-date=31 December 2014}}</ref> The first issue of the paper was published on 23 June 1945.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mediabase1.uib.no/krigslex/v/v1.html#verdens-gang|title=Verdens Gang|access-date=30 August 2008|work=NorgesLexi|language=no|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120621045057/http://mediabase1.uib.no/krigslex/v/v1.html#verdens-gang|archive-date=21 June 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref> [[Christian A. R. Christensen]] was the first [[editor-in-chief]] of ''VG'' from its start in 1945 to 1967, when he died.<ref name=bora>{{cite web|author=Olav Anders Øvrebø|title=Journalism After the Monopoly on Publishing has been Broken|url=https://bora.uib.no/bitstream/handle/1956/4896/%C3%B6vreb%C3%B6%202008_journalism.pdf?sequence=1|work=Bergen Open Research Archive|access-date=29 December 2014|format=Book chapter|date=2008}}</ref>

''VG'' is based in Oslo.<ref name=rno/> The paper is published in tabloid format.<ref name=adsm>{{cite news|author=Adam Smith|title=Europe's Top Papers|url=http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/news/164161/|access-date=7 February 2015|work=campaign|date=15 November 2002}}</ref> The owner, [[media conglomerate]] [[Schibsted]],<ref name=bora/> also owns Norway's largest newspaper, {{lang|no|[[Aftenposten]]}},<ref name=craig>{{cite book|author=Craig Carroll|title=Corporate Reputation and the News Media: Agenda-setting Within Business News Coverage in Developed, Emerging, and Frontier Markets|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F2iNAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA153|access-date=8 December 2014|date=1 September 2010|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-25244-1|page=155}}</ref> as well as newspapers in Sweden, Estonia, and shares in some of Norway's larger regional newspapers. Schibsted took over the paper following the death of Christensen in 1967.<ref name=bora/> Just before the change in ownership, ''VG'' was mostly sold in the Oslo area and had a circulation of 34,000 copies.<ref name=hosts>{{cite journal|author=Sigurd Høst|title=Newspaper Growth in the Television Era. The Norwegian Experience|journal=Nordicom Review|date=1999|volume=1|issue=1|url=http://www.nordicom.gu.se/sites/default/files/kapitel-pdf/31_host.pdf|access-date=31 December 2014}}</ref>

The editor-in-chief is [[Gard Steiro]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/torry-pedersen-gaar-av-som-ansvarlig-redaktoer-i-vg/a/23888871/|language=no|title=Torry Pedersen går av som ansvarlig redaktør i VG|work=VG|date=4 January 2017|access-date=4 February 2011}}</ref> ''VG'' is not affiliated with any political party. It stands for [[liberal values]].

For many years, ''VG'' was the largest newspaper in Norway by circulation, which reached a peak of 390,000 in 2002. As its readers moved from traditional newspapers to internet newspapers, the circulation had collapsed to 94,000 in 2016. ''VG'' is now the second-largest print newspaper in Norway. It was overtaken by {{lang|no|[[Aftenposten]]}} in 2010. The online newspaper ''vg.no'' is, however, by far the most visited in Norway, with 2 million daily readers.<ref>[http://www.medienorge.uib.no/statistikk/medium/avis MedieNorge statistics]</ref>