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Norwegian newspaper

Aftenposten (; ; stylized as Aftenpoſten in the masthead) is Norway's largest printed newspaper by circulation. It is based in Oslo. It sold 211,769 daily copies in 2015 (172,029 printed copies according to University of Bergen) and estimated 1.2 million readers. It converted from broadsheet to compact format in March 2005. Aftenpostens online edition is at Aftenposten. no. It is considered a newspaper of record for Norway. Aftenposten is a private company wholly owned by the public company Schibsted ASA. Norway's second largest newspaper, VG, is also owned by Schibsted. Norwegian owners held a 42% of the shares in Schibsted at the end of 2015. The paper has around 240 employees. Trine Eilertsen was appointed editor in chief in 2020. Aftenposten has correspondents based in Kyiv, Brussels, New York, Moscow and Istanbul (2023).

Aftenposten opposed the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to German pacifist Carl von Ossietzky in 1935. In 1945, Aftenposten published an obituary of Adolf Hitler in which the 86 year old Nobel laureate novelist Knut Hamsun referred to Hitler as "a warrior for humankind and a preacher of the gospel of justice for all nations". At that time, Aftenposten was under the censorship of the German occupying forces. Historically, Aftenposten has not received the same number of lawsuits or as much attention from the Norwegian Press Complaints Commission as some of the larger tabloids. However, there are exceptions. In 2007, Aftenposten alleged that Julia Svetlichnaya, the last person to interview the murdered Russian national Alexander Litvinenko, was a Kremlin agent. London correspondent Hilde Harbo admitted having allowed herself to be fed disinformation emanating from the Russian emigrant community without investigating the matter properly. Aftenposten eventually had to apologize and pay Svetlichnaya's legal costs. In 2011 the newspaper was criticized by Jon Hustad for publishing conspiracy theories that promoted the false claim that convicted Soviet spy Arne Treholt was innocent, based entirely on a book by convicted fraudster Geir Selvik Malthe Sørenssen that was revealed to be based on a fabricated source. In a study dated 2016 Aftenposten was found to contain the epithet Negro (Norwegian: neger) at the highest frequency in the period between 1970 and 2014 with 674 references. In 2021, the paper was criticized by the youth organization of the National Association for Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Transgender People for allegedly publishing articles that promoted transphobic conspiracy theories about trans women.

Aftenposten had a conservative stance and supported the political party Høyre until the breakdown of party press system in the country.

The online newspaper Aftenposten. no had an average of 827,000 daily readers in 2015, an increase from 620.000 in 2010.