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Ságat

Ságat is a Sámi newspaper written in Norwegian that is published in LeavdnjainPorsanger Municipality, Finnmark county, Norway.

Ságat was founded in Vadsø in 1957^[1] and moved to Leavdnja in 1981, where it still is based today. It maintains offices and reporters in Deatnu, Kárášjohka, Evenášši, Máttá-Várjjat, and Áltá, Norway.^[2]

The editor since 1978 has been Geir Wulff. Since October 2008, the paper has published five days per week on weekdays.^[3] Later it became a daily newspaper.^[1]

Ságat had a circulation of 2,717 copies in 2007.^[4] Although the original idea of the newspaper was that it should have articles written in both Sámi and Norwegian, today it uses Norwegian almost exclusively in its articles.

• Kristian Olsen 1956–1957
• Hans J. Henriksen and Thor Frette 1958–1961
• Hans J. Henriksen 1961–1964
• Nils Jernsletten 1964–1966
• Isak Østmo 1966–1966
• Hans J. Henriksen 1966–1967
• Albert Johansen 1967–1968
• Odd Mathis Hætta 1968–1974
• Peder Andreas Varsi, Johan Store and Arne Wulff 1974–1975
• Geir Wulff 1976
• Bjarne Store Jakobsen 1976–1978
• Geir Wulff 1978–

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