Correspondenten was a Norwegian newspaper, published in Skien in Telemark county.
[1] In 1842 he had started the newspaper Skiensposten, but he grew tired and resigned as chief editor later that year.
The same year, however, Bagger returned to the newspaper business, as co-editor of Bratsberg Amtstidende, founded by Peter Feilberg in 1840.
Bagger left already in 1844, to form Correspondenten while Feilberg's newspaper reverted to the name Bratsberg Amtstidende.
[2] Bagger was a rival of Feilberg and Feilberg's friend (and Bagger's political competitor) Frederik Charlow Sophus Borchsenius,[1] but also of the Adresse-Tidende editor William Thrane based in nearby city Brevik.