Aftenposten is not a republican paper, they have a lot of "nice stuff" but mostly only the controversy is translated to english
usually not the nice stuff and the daily events articles. Aftenposten has atleast one respected royal journalist (Wenche Fuglehaug) who travel with the royals on most trips, and they also use NTB (like reuters) pieces by their respected royal reporter Wibeche Lie who is usually also on the spot to report, they
rarely report on gossip. I think they are a good paper, I hate reading papers who only rave about royals and make the look like saints and it becomes laughable to read They praise them when they deserve praising and when they do something not so good or show double standards they report on that as well, as it should be. I guess VG is more or less the same, slightly more sensational though. Dagbladet is a republican paper and has been so as long as they have been around, its a political statement and not related to the family directly, but they also report on royal duties and events in a positive way.
NRK and TV2 is also along the line of Aftenposten, NRK beeing a little more positive than TV2 perhaps but both channels usually invite both people for and against the monarchy to their debates, I cant ever remembering them having a debate consisiting of only people against the monarchy
Ofcourse this is just My oppinion