Editing Stavanger (section)

===Media===
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The city's largest daily newspaper, [[Stavanger Aftenblad]] came out with its first issue in 1893. Competitor [[Rogalands Avis]] was first published in 1899 under the name ''1ste Mai'' ('1 May'), and published daily. In 1987 an attempt was made to establish a new daily newspaper, The West Coast, but it was only released for two months and ended with a total loss of NOK 27 million.

The first newspaper published in Stavanger, "Stavangerske Adressecontoirs Efterretninger", was a handwritten weekly newspaper that probably came out in 1769 and 1770. This was not an ordinary newspaper, but a so-called link newspaper with the privilege of bringing out announcements, small articles and ads. The first ''printed'' newspaper in Stavanger, "Stavanger Addresseavis", published its first issue on Friday, 4 October 1833.

[[Stavanger Avis]] was published from 1888 until 1911. Writer and local Alexander L. Kielland was editor in 1889. Stavanger Avis was also the name of the newspaper that came out from 1942 to 1945, when Stavanger Aftenblad and Stavangeren were merged by the Press Directorate.

Student newspaper ''SMiS'' (Studentmediene i Stavanger) comes out every other month.

Stavanger has one principal television station, TV Vest, that sends local news and reports. Additionally, Viking TV, the channel for the football team [[Viking FK]], started on 2 March 2008, and is distributed via Lyse's broadband network, reaching 120,000 viewers in 45,000 households. [[NRK]] [[Rogaland]] supplies local news broadcasts on radio and television. Local radio stations also provide local news and reports.