Morgunblaðið

Also known as mbl

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.

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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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Country: Iceland
Headquarters: Reykjavík
Country of origin: Iceland
Official website: timarit.is/view_page_init.jsp?pubId=58
Image: Dukskot17nov1913.jpg

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Commons category: Morgunblaðið
title: Morgunblaðið
inception: 1913-00-00
language of work or name: Icelandic
editor-in-chief: Davíð Oddsson
start time: 1913-00-00
newspaper format: tabloid

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==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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