Newsmill is a Swedish website for "news commentary and debate". [1] Debate was opened to the public on September 3, 2008. .[2] It was operated at that time by Peter Magnus Nilsson (CEO, editor and publisher), Leo Lagercrantz (Editorial Director) and Karen Eder Ekman, who had previously worked at Expressen and Aftonbladet. [3] Currently Ekman has been succeeded by Sakine Madon and Annika Nordgren Christensen. [4] Newsmill is owned by the Bonnier Group, a giant media conglomerate, Proventus, an investment group, Nelson and Lagercrantz. There are links to other mainstream media, since Bonnier also own Dagens Nyheter, Expressen and Résumé, [5] which frequently comment on opinion articles in Newsmill. Expressen also publishes, every Sunday, a summary of the debates on Newsmill.
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Newsmill was one of three nominees for the 2009 Stora Journalistpriset in the category of "innovation". The reason for nomination was that "it rejuvenates opinion journalism, invites an audience and asks new questions."
On Newsmill one can buy editorial space in the section titled "Seminars", which are displayed with a pink background. Thus 100,000 Swedish Kronor per week can guarantee publication. [6] When the magazine Internetworld, listed Sweden's 100 best website in November 2008, Newsmill was rated 45th as the "best opinion site." [7] Newsmill was also named best public opinion site in 2009, coming in at 36th. [8]