Dagens Nyheter
Dagens Nyheter front page, 10 June 2011
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatCompact
Owner(s)Bonnier AB
Founder(s)Rudolf Wall
Editor-in-chiefPeter Wolodarski
Founded23 December 1864
Political alignmentIndependent liberal
LanguageSwedish
HeadquartersGjörwellsgatan 30,
Stockholm
Circulation282,800 (2013)
ISSN1101-2447
Websitewww.dn.se
Dagens Nyheter staff at Klara Västra 1914
Karduansmakargatan. Dagens Nyheter in Klara (demolished in 1969) Architects for remodeling Ullrich & Hallquisth

Dagens Nyheter (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈdɑ̌ːɡɛns ˈnŷːˌheːtɛr] ⓘ, lit. 'news of the day'), abbreviated DN, is a daily newspaper in Sweden. It is published in Stockholm and aspires to full national and international coverage, and is widely considered Sweden's newspaper of record.

History and profile

Dagens Nyheter was founded by Rudolf Wall in December 1864.[1][2][3]

The first issue was published on 23 December 1864. During its initial period the paper was published in the morning.[4] In 1874 the paper became a joint stock company.[5] Its circulation in 1880 was 15,000 copies.[2] In the 1890s, Wall left Dagens Nyheter and soon after, the paper became the organ of the Liberal Party.[4] From 1946 to 1959, Herbert Tingsten was the executive editor.[6]

The newspaper has been owned by the Bonnier Group since 1909,[7][8] when Karl Otto Bonnier acquired the remaining shares that his family had not owned (his father Albert had already acquired some shares since 1888).[9] Opinion leaders often choose Dagens Nyheter as the venue for publishing major opinion editorials. The stated position of the editorial page is "independently liberal".[7][10][11] However, it left its formal alliance with the liberal establishment in the country in 1972.[4]

Location

Dagens Nyheter operates from the so-called "DN-skrapan" (the DN skyscraper or Dagens Nyheter Tower) in Stockholm. This was completed in 1964 and was designed by the architect Paul Hedqvist. It is 84 metres (276 feet) tall and has 27 floors. In 1996, the entire enterprise moved to its current location on Gjörwellsgatan, which is adjacent to the old tower.[12] The newspaper Expressen, also owned by the Bonnier Group,[13] is located in this building as well.

Circulation

In the 1960s the circulation of Dagens Nyheter was much higher than that of other Swedish dailies.[1] The paper has the largest circulation among the Swedish morning newspapers followed by Göteborgs-Posten and Svenska Dagbladet, and is the only morning newspaper that is distributed to subscribers across the entire country. In 2001 its circulation was 361,000 copies.[14] The 2004 circulation of the paper was 363,000 copies.[15] The circulation of the paper was 363,100 copies in weekdays in 2005[7] and had dropped to 292,300 copies in 2010.[16] In 2013, the print edition of Dagens Nyheter had a circulation of 282,800 copies, reaching an approximate 758,000 persons every day. The web edition had on average roughly 1.5 million unique visitors per week during 2013.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Dagens Nyheter". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 18 November 2014.
  2. ^ a b Oskar Bandle; Kurt Braunmuller; Ernst-Hakon Jahr; Allan Karker; Hans-Peter Naumann; Ulf Teleman (2005). The Nordic Languages 2: An International Handbook of the History of the North Germanic Languages. Walter de Gruyter. p. 1487. ISBN 978-3-11-017149-5. Retrieved 24 November 2014.
  3. ^ Christoffer Rydland (2013). "Aspects of Cooperation and Corporate Governance in the Swedish Regional Newspaper Industry" (PDF). Stockholm School of Economics. Archived from the original (PhD Thesis) on 17 January 2015. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
  4. ^ a b c Stig Hadenius; Lennart Weibull (1999). "The Swedish Newspaper System in the Late 1990s. Tradition and Transition" (PDF). Nordicom Review. 1 (1). Retrieved 31 December 2014.
  5. ^ Karl Erik Gustafsson; Per Rydén (2010). A History of the Press in Sweden (PDF). Gothenburg: Nordicom. ISBN 978-91-86523-08-4. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 February 2015. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
  6. ^ Johanna Rainio-Niemi (5 February 2014). The Ideological Cold War: The Politics of Neutrality in Austria and Finland. Taylor & Francis. p. 184. ISBN 978-1-135-04240-0. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
  7. ^ a b c "Swedish mass media" (PDF). Swedish Institute. 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 September 2013. Retrieved 18 November 2014.
  8. ^ Panagiota Koulouvari (2004). "Family-Owned Media Companies in the Nordic Countries: Research Issues and Challenges" (PDF). Jönköping International Business School. Archived from the original (Working Paper Series No:2) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
  9. ^ Ketupa.net: Bonniergruppen-kronologi Archived 14 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 2022-08-21
  10. ^ Stig A. Nohrstedt; et al. (2000). "From the Persian Gulf to Kosovo — War Journalism and Propaganda" (PDF). European Journal of Communication. 15 (3). Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
  11. ^ Sigurd Allern; Mark Blach-Ørsten (2011). "The News Media as a Political Institution". Journalism Studies. 12 (1): 92–105. doi:10.1080/1461670X.2010.511958.
  12. ^ Historia [1].
  13. ^ Robert G. Picard. "Media Ownership and Concentration in the Nordic Nations" (PDF). Le Centre d'études sur les médias. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  14. ^ Adam Smith (15 November 2002). "Europe's Top Papers". campaign. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
  15. ^ "The press in Sweden". BBC News. 2004. Retrieved 18 November 2014.
  16. ^ "Dagens Nyheter". Nationalencyklopedin (in Swedish). Retrieved 25 March 2011.

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