Dagen (Danish newspaper)

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For the historical Danish paper named Dagen, see Dagen (1803-1843).



Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Compact

Owner	Atlas Publishing A/S
Publisher	Atlas Publishing A/S
Editor	Kresten Schultz Jørgensen
Founded	October 22, 2002
Political allegiance	None
Language	Danish
Headquarters	Copenhagen, Denmark

Website: http://www.dagen.dk/

DAGEN (IPA: [d̥ɑʊ̥ən], commonly written Dagen) was a Danish newspaper which is notable for only lasting 41 issues, from October 22 to December 6 during the second half of 2002. DAGEN was the first new newspaper in almost 50 years in Denmark.

On December 6, 2002, Dagen had a debt of 34.9 million DKK, and bankruptcy was declared on December 13, 2002.

Peter Linck was the creator of the newspaper, and the editor was Kresten Schultz Jørgensen.

The newspaper had more media coverage than it itself was able to cover about its bankruptcy. The coverage from other media was intense. Many used the newspaper's own mottos for jokes about its bankruptcy, a famous one was "til folk som kan læse, fra folk som ikke kan regne" ^[1] (Danish: "for people who can read, from people who can't do math") as a reference to the overwhelming bankruptcy it suffered.

1 Mottos
2 Comeback
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Mottos

DAGEN had a few mottos, in order to draw distance from other current newspapers.

Til folk som kan læse, fra folk der kan skrive (Danish: for people who can read, from people who can write).
Hverken venstreorienteret eller højreorienteret, men velorienteret (Danish: not left-wing nor right-wing, but well present)

[edit] Comeback

Although DAGEN had declared bankruptcy, it has announced that it will start up again as an online only newspaper ^[2]. It is unknown however what it will look like, and if it will even resemble the design of the old paper version.

[edit] See also

List of newspapers in Denmark

[edit] References

^ Mads Brügger & Nikolaj Thomassen (2003). Ingen kender DAGEN. People's Press. ISBN 87-91293-28-6.
^ (Danish) dagen.dk's own story other articles: [1], [2], [3] (all Danish)