Newspapers of Sunnmøre

The history of publishing newspapers in Sunnmøre, a region in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway, stretches from 1808, and is continuous to the present day.

A cooperation between the bookseller J. Aarflot and the printer T. Zernichow led to the trade newspaper Aalesunds Handels og Søfartstidende being started in 1856.

Søndmørsposten, which later modernised its name to Sunnmørsposten, firmly established itself during Ivar Flem's long service as editor-in-chief, starting in 1984[1] and spanning nearly fifty years.

[1] Arbeidernes Blad was Ålesund's first newspaper aligned with the labour movement, lasting from January to April 1898.

The editorial team was a four-member committee consisting of Bernhard Riise (chief editor), Erik Pettersen, J. Langseth and Andreas Barstad.

Petter Moe-Johansen seized the opportunity to become the first editor of Nybrott, which was subsequently edited by Johan Falkberget.

Sulaposten gained traction during the campaign to demerge Sula from Ålesund Municipality, which happened in 1977, and managed to survive as a weekly newspaper.

The founder Ansgar Slagnes operated on more or less a hobby basis, with slim profits and contributors working without compensation.

As Haram Municipality was incorporated into Ålesund in 2020, it was demerged in 2024; the newspaper changed its name back to Haramsnytt on 4 January 2024.

[8] Probably inspired by Nordre, the Ålesund-based journalist Kjell Opsal left his job in 1972 to move operations to Sjøholt in Ørskog Municipality, where he started Bygdebladet.

The newspaper is written in Nynorsk and is issued on Wednesdays and Saturdays, having tried publishing three days a week in the late 1980s.

The large decline after 1988 was in part due to new local newspapers emerging in Vestnes Municipality (in Romsdal) and [[Storfjord]], where Bygdebladet had a reader base.

In the southwest along the county border to Sogn og Fjordane, Vanylven Municipality was enlarged through a merger.