Morgunblaðið
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Morgunblaðið (, The Morning Paper) is an Icelandic daily newspaper. Morgunblaðiðs website, mbl.is, is the most popular website in Iceland. It is currently the country's only daily printed newspaper and the newspaper of record.
Key facts
- Newspaper.name
- Morgunblaðið
- Newspaper.logo
- Morgunblaðið Logo.svg
- Newspaper.image
- 220px
- Newspaper.image_alt
- Front page of Morgunblaðið for October 18, 2018
- Newspaper.caption
- Front page for October 18, 2018
- Newspaper.type
- Daily newspaper
- Newspaper.format
- Tabloid
- Newspaper.political_position
- Centre-right
- Newspaper.owners
- Árvakur hf
- Newspaper.editor
- Davíð Oddsson and Haraldur Johannessen
- Newspaper.deputy_editor
- Karl Blöndal
- Newspaper.staff_writers
- 150 news staff (2023)
- Newspaper.circulation
- 50,000
- Newspaper.sister_newspapers
- Iceland Monitor
- Newspaper.headquarters
- Hádegismóar 2, Reykjavík, Iceland
- Newspaper.ISSN
- 1021-7266
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Encyclopedic overview
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- See also
- References
- External links
Morgunblaðið (, The Morning Paper) is an Icelandic daily newspaper. Morgunblaðiðs website, mbl.is, is the most popular website in Iceland. It is currently the country's only daily printed newspaper and the newspaper of record.
==History== Morgunblaðið was founded by Vilhjálmur Finsen and Ólafur Björnsson, brother of Iceland's first president, Sveinn Björnsson. The first issue, only eight pages long, was published on 2 November 1913.
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