Газета Fréttablaðið: История и закрытие исландского издания.

Icelandic newspaper

Fréttablaðið was a free Icelandic newspaper. It was distributed five days per week.

Fréttablaðið was established in 2001. The paper was published six days per week, Monday — Saturday until September 2003, when its frequency was switched to daily. and as of 2020, it was published five days per week. It is entirely funded by advertising. In 2019, it had a circulation of 80,000. Forty percent of Iceland respondents to a Gallup survey stated that they read the paper. In 2017, 365 Miðlar sold most of its assets to Fjarskipti ehf, the parent company of Vodafone Iceland, including the website visir. is. 365 Miðlar kept Fréttablaðið along with Glamour magazine and opened a new website, frettabladid. is. As of 2020, it was the sixth most popular website in Iceland. In October 2019, Helgi Magnússon and other investors bought 365 Miðlar's shares in Torg ehf. Helgi had previously bought 50% of Torg ehf's stocks earlier in 2019. As a part of the sale, Ólöf Skaftadóttir stepped down as editor and was replaced with Jón Þórisson. After the sale, the new owners announced their plans to merge Fréttablaðið with the TV station Hringbraut. In October 2020, the paper was accused of publishing fake news by the United States embassy in Iceland due to a report saying that the embassy's employees were asked to work despite one worker contracting COVID 19. In 2021 Torg ehf., the owner of the paper, received 81 million Icelandic krónas (about $USD 637,443) in subsidies issued to Icelandic media by the government of Iceland. On 31 March 2023, the paper ceased publication and laid off all staff.