Conservative Press Association

The Conservative Press Association was established on 29 August 1892 in the headquarters of the Norwegian Order of Freemasons, with Nils Vogt and Amandus Schibsted as initiators.

[2] The association championed the Riksmål standard of written Norwegian and opposed the Samnorsk line.

The chairman Thorstein Diesen was, however, ambivalent towards this approach; he maintained that the endeavour for the Riksmål standard ought not to become a conservative cause.

[9] In the late 1930s, the association remained sceptical towards fascism and nazism, and argued against creating affinities between the conservative newspapers, Nasjonal Samling and the Fatherland League.

[13][14] DKPF lost political influence in the 1960s and beyond, despite its heavy representation in the organs of the Conservative Party.

In the early 1970s, the conservative newspapers in the country became subject of criticism, and their representation in the organs of the party was called into question.

The Conservative Press Association was established in the headquarters of the Norwegian Order of Freemasons in 1892
Christian Friele was honorary member of the association, despite not attending any of its meetings.