Varden is a local newspaper published in Skien, Norway. It was first established with a test issue on 17 December 1874. It has a print circulation of approximately 20,000. Total readership on all platforms, as of 2016, is 72.000 daily readers. Varden has been published daily since 1895, and in the tabloid format since 2001. Its current editor-in-chief is Tom Erik Thorsen.