Dagen (Danish newspaper)

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

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[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 know how to read, by people who know how to write).
  • Hverken venstreorienteret eller højreorienteret, men velorienteret (Danish: not left-wing nor right-wing, but well present)

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Mads Brügger & Nikolaj Thomassen (2003). Ingen kender DAGEN. People's Press. ISBN 87-91293-28-6. 

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