Dimmalætting

Dimmalætting [ dɪm ː ˌ a lat ɪɳg ː ] ( Faroese for " dawn " ), colloquially " Dimma " was the oldest and largest daily newspaper in the Faroe Islands, based in Tórshavn. With the edition of September 13, 2013 her show was set.

Name

The name Dimmalætting consists of dhimmi ( darkness ) and lætting, a nominalization of LAETTA (leave, make easy). Dimmið lættir means " it is day " (literally: " the darkness leaves after "). The newspaper name comes from VU Hammershaimb and is regarded as one of the early independent neologisms the Faroese language.

History

The first issue of " Dimma " appeared after a sample number from December 8, 1877 January 5, 1878.

From inception of the unionist Sambandsflokkurin 1906 Dimma was his party newspaper, but describes himself as politically independent since 1995. By 2005, however, the chief editor of the newspaper was automatically represented on the executive committee of the Sambandsflokkurin.

The Faroese name was initially small print before the Danish name for Amtstidene Færøerne (Official newspaper of the Faroe Islands ). Accordingly, the publisher called A / S Færø Office Tidendes Bogtrykkeri founded in 1877, but today P / F Dimmalætting. The articles were written in the early years in Danish only, from 1910 to 1947, the newspaper was bilingual, since outweighed the Faroese.

By 1911, the newspaper was published only on Saturday, then on Wednesdays as well. From the 1920s, there were six instead of the previous 4 pages. After 1970, the number of pages increased to 8 or more. A third issue was added, but only since September 1996, she published five times a week from Tuesday to Saturday. In November 2004, the publication was changed to Monday to Friday evenings. Since mid-March 2005, she appeared in miniature.

The Tuesday edition was distributed in the Faroe Islands since 5 April 2005 as a response to competing advertising newspapers free of charge to all households.

Today's profile

The last Dimma had a circulation of 8,500 copies nationwide ( 1991, 13,300 ) and appeared five times a week.

The editorial content of the site dimma.fo were initially subscribers only, but are now (2008) visible to everyone, making it Sosialurin is another Faroese news portal next portal.fo the competition sheet.

The publisher's included the advertising agency team 85 and the printing Prentmiðstøðin. The advertising agency is one of the largest in the country and the printing, the only newspaper printing. Here also, the rival newspaper Sosialurin is printed. The printing company merged in 2004 with Hestprent to Føroyaprent, a large printing company that wants to compete in the international market.

Since April 2008, the weekly business newspaper Vinnuvitan was, together with the free advertising paper Vikublaðið also to the publisher.

• Newspaper ( Faroe Islands )
• Daily paper
• Tórshavn
• Färöischsprachige newspaper
• Multilingual newspaper
• Danish -language newspaper
• First publication in 1878