Glommen was a Norwegian newspaper, published in Sarpsborg

Sarpsborg

is a city and municipality in Østfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Sarpsborg.Sarpsborg is part of the fifth largest urban area in Norway when paired with neighbouring Fredrikstad...

 in Østfold

Østfold

is a county in southeastern Norway, bordering Akershus and southwestern Sweden , while Buskerud and Vestfold is on the other side of the bay. The seat of the county administration is Sarpsborg, and Fredrikstad is the largest city.Many manufacturing facilities are situated here. Moss and...

 county.

Glommen was started on 19 September 1888. It was published by Tollef Ellefssøn, and edited by an anonymous person, who was really Oluf Falck-Ytter

Oluf Falck-Ytter

Oluf Vilhelm Falck-Ytter was a Norwegian civil servant, writer and editor.He was born in Romedal as a son of vogt Nils Ytter and his wife Marie Dorothea Falck . After taking the cand.jur...

. The newspaper was started as a competitor to the city's dominant, conservative newspaper Sarpen

Sarpen

Sarpen was a Norwegian newspaper, published in Sarpsborg in Østfold county.Sarpen was started as Dagbladet Sarpen in 1854, and eventually became affiliated with the Conservative Party, which was founded in 1884...

, and became even more outspokely liberal with time. It had a sound economy and circulation, and it even helped other liberal newspapers in the county, such as Halden

Halden (newspaper)

Halden was a Norwegian newspaper, published in Halden in Østfold county.Halden was started in 1882 as a liberal competitor to the city's dominant, conservative newspaper Smaalenenes Amtstidende. The first editor was Jens Olsen. Sigurd Østensen Sandberg later took over informally, then formally from...

which it helped press from 1931.

The German occupation of Norway changed the situation. The last edition of Glommen came on 1 October 1941, and then it was stopped as a part of the Germans' wanton press policies. It never returned.