17 September 2025

[Webinar] From Legacy to Labrador CMS: How Fagbladet upgraded their newsroom workflow in just 8 weeks

With the pace of change the media industry is experiencing, it’s easy to get caught with legacy systems that you know could be better.

If you know your CMS isn’t keeping up with the way your business has changed, come to our webinar in partnership with Labrador, and hear how Norwegian news publisher Fagbladet upgraded to Labrador in just 8 weeks.

Date: September 17th
Time: 3pm CET / 2pm BST
Where: Online
Cost: Free to attend

We’ll hear from:

Jon R. Hammerfjeld, Founder of Labrador CMS, and
Vidar Eriksen, Editor-in-Chief, Development, and Migration Project Manager, Fagbladet

Jon R. Hammerfjeld will take us through how Labrador CMS works, followed by insight from Vidar Eriksen on the migration from their existing CMS to a SaaS. He’ll tell us how importing thousands of articles, while maintaining SEO, was completed in just 8 weeks, and the migration has positively impacted the business.

This webinar is perfect for editors, publishers, and digital managers considering a CMS upgrade.

Vidar Eriksen works at Fagbladet, the member magazine of the Norwegian Union of Municipal and General Employees. He is responsible for developing the editorial team’s production systems for both web and print, and also works with web development and graphic design.

Jon Reidar Hammerfjeld is one of the founders of Labrador. He used to be the Online Editor at Norwegian daily Dagbladet. Labrador CMS is a journalist-friendly CMS that brings the power back into the hands of editors and journalists by offering easy to master, yet powerful editing tools. It lets you build, edit and publish your articles and front pages without needing to rely on a developer.

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