The fourth volume, Norske aviser fra A til Å was edited by Idar Flo.
[1] Composed of 1925 pages across all volumes, the entire work cost 15 million kr and was finished after eleven years.
[1] Thirty people have provided a substantial amount of writing, while some 130 writers contributed with "newspaper biographies".
[1] This way, the Norwegian press history is drawn back far earlier in time than the existence of newspapers and journalism.
[3] The work attracted little scholarly attention, yet Per Overrein reviewed its third volume in a 2011 issue of Historisk Tidsskrift.
While applauding its thoroughness, usability and the individual efforts of the authors, he criticized the experimental nature of the work, its specious account of the role of Norwegian newspapers in the legal purge after World War II and its lack of coverage of the function that the Norwegian press played during the 1994 EU referendum.