NRK

NRK (Norsk rikskringkasting) is Norway's government-owned public service broadcaster. It provides news, current affairs, and programming across television, radio, and online in Norwegian. Operating under a public-service mandate of impartiality, NRK is one of Norway's most trusted and widely used news and media sources.

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NRK at a glance

Country: Norway
Region: Northern Europe · Europe
Kind of outlet: Public broadcaster
Editorial leaning: Centrist
Founded: 1933
Ownership: A state-owned public broadcaster
Published from: Oslo
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How Crosswire groups NRK

Crosswire groups NRK as Centrist for comparisons within Norway's directory. Center includes both centrist outlets and outlets for which the directory has no confident classification. It is not evidence that this outlet is neutral or more accurate. In Norway, Dagbladet is listed as Left-leaning — so you can open NRK beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.

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Where NRK sits in Norway's press

NRK was founded in 1933, is published from Oslo and is a state-owned public broadcaster. It is one of 6 outlets tracked in Norway and the only public broadcaster tracked there. By outlets tracked, Norway ranks tenth of the 45 countries on Crosswire's Europe hub, which lists 264 outlets in all.

Across Europe, Crosswire tracks 27 of the 59 public broadcasters in the directory. The nearest counterparts to NRK outside Norway, starting with Northern Europe, are RÚV (Iceland), DR (Denmark), Yle News (Finland) and ERR (Estonia). Opening one of them beside NRK is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.