[1] Hasselknippe's main task was to receive and distribute weapons, ammunition, and supplies dropped in the forest by aircraft.
His editor-in-chief in Ringerikes Blad, Kaare Filseth, covered for him, but was ultimately seized as a hostage and shot by the Germans.
[1] After the war, some members of the Norwegian Home Front discussed a restart of the newspaper Tidens Tegn, but this did not go through.
[4] In 1963 it was first in Norway to adopt the tabloid format,[5] and contrary to Christian A. R. Christensen,[6] Hasselknippe was a proponent of this modernization, and also of the introduction of VG as the commonly used name for the newspaper.
He supported several entrepreneurs, including Vebjørn Tandberg, Olav Selvaag and Ludvig G. Braathen.