Views and News from Norway

Views and News from Norway are a news site, a medium for sharing the top stories being reported by Norwegian news media, and stories

That’s the idea behind this web site, newsinenglish.no (Views and News from Norway). Their goal is to reflect the news scene in Norway, to report what the locals are talking and arguing about, and to serve up plenty of photos, too. They are a news site, a medium for sharing the top stories being reported by Norwegian news media, and stories that may be of special interest to a foreign audience. They aimed to pick up where Oslo-based news organization Aftenposten left off when it shut down its own English-language Norwegian news service in a cost-cutting move in the fall of 2008. The California-born editor of this site was among those who helped found Aftenposten’s service, and saw the demand for Norwegian news in English as traffic grew. There’s more demand than ever now, given all the new immigrants to Norway, foreign workers and students, visiting professors and consultants, diplomats and tourists. They may not be able to read the local papers and web sites, or understand local radio and TV, but they’d probably like to follow what’s going on in their country of residence. They try to decipher the headlines and offer some perspective of their own. They also write for the millions of Norwegian-Americans and descendants of Norwegian immigrants in other countries, who feel strong personal ties to Norway, and the thousands of others living all over the world who have an interest in Norway. Their goal is to help all their readers keep up with the Norwegians, and follow along with life in this vibrant if often chilly country in the far north. No matter how small it may be.