Svenska Dagbladet

Svenska Dagbladet

Svenska Dagbladet front page, 10 June 2011
Type Daily newspaper
Format Tabloid
Owner(s) Schibsted
Editor-in-chief Fredric Karén
Founded 1884
Political alignment Independent Moderate (liberal conservative)
Language Swedish
Headquarters Stockholm
Circulation 143,400 (2013)
ISSN 1101-2412
Website www.svd.se

Svenska Dagbladet (common abbreviation SvD; the title translates as "the Swedish daily paper") is a daily newspaper published in Stockholm, Sweden.

History and profile

Front page of the first issue of Svenska Dagbladet (18 December 1884)

The first issue of Svenska Dagbladet appeared on 18 December 1884. Ivar Anderson is among its former editors-in-chief who assumed the post in 1940.[1]

The paper is published in Stockholm and provides coverage of national and international news as well as local coverage of the Greater Stockholm region. Its subscribers are concentrated in the capital, but it is distributed in most of Sweden. During the beginning of the 1900s the paper was one of the right-wing publications in Stockholm.[2]

Svenska Dagbladet is owned by Schibsted[3] which purchased it in the late 1990s.[4] The stated position of the editorial page is "independently moderate" (oberoende moderat), which means it is independent but adheres to the liberal conservatism of the Moderate Party. On the other hand, the paper is also regarded as conservative.[5][6]

In November 2000 Svenska Dagbladet changed its format from broadsheet to tabloid.[7][8] In 2005 the paper started a Web portal for business news as a joint venture with Aftonbladet.[9]

Since 1925 Svenska Dagbladet has awarded an individual sportsperson or a team the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal at the end of each year.

Circulation

The circulation of Svenska Dagbladet was 185,000 copies in 2003.[10] The paper had a circulation of 187,100 copies on weekdays in 2005.[3] Among Swedish morning newspapers Svenska Dagbladet had the third largest circulation with 195,200 copies in 2007 after Dagens Nyheter and Göteborgs-Posten.[11] In 2008 Svenska Dagbladet had a circulation of 123,383 copies.[12] The circulation of the paper was 185,600 copies in 2011.[13] It was 159,600 copies in 2012 and 143,400 copies in 2013.[14]

Staff

See also

References

  1. Karl Erik Gustafsson; Per Rydén (2010). A History of the Press in Sweden (PDF). Gothenburg: Nordicom. ISBN 978-91-86523-08-4. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
  2. Leif Yttergren; Hans Bolling (5 November 2012). The 1912 Stockholm Olympics: Essays on the Competitions, the People, the City. McFarland. p. 203. ISBN 978-1-4766-0066-6. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  3. 3.0 3.1 "Swedish mass media" (PDF). Swedish Institute. 2006. Retrieved 18 November 2014.
  4. Eva Harrie (2009). "The Nordic Media Market" (PDF). Göteborg: Nordicom, University of Gothenburg. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
  5. Sigurd Allern; Mark Blach-Ørsten (2011). "The News Media as a Political Institution". Journalism Studies 12 (1). doi:10.1080/1461670X.2010.511958. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  6. Jonas Ohlsson (2012). The Practice of Newspaper Ownership (PDF). Bohus: University of Gothenburg. ISBN 978-91-88212-98-6. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  7. "A Small World – Role Models In Scandinavia" (PDF). Göteborgs University. 2007. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  8. Ulrika Andersson (2013). "From Broadsheet to Tabloid: Content changes in Swedish newspapers in the light of a shrunken size". Observatorio (OBS*) Journal 7 (4). Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  9. Maria Grafström (2006). "The Development of Swedish Business Journalism" (PHD THESIS). Uppsala University. Retrieved 29 November 2014.
  10. "World Press Trends" (PDF). Paris: World Association of Newspapers. 2004. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
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  12. Craig Carroll (1 September 2010). Corporate Reputation and the News Media: Agenda-setting Within Business News Coverage in Developed, Emerging, and Frontier Markets. Routledge. p. 155. ISBN 978-1-135-25244-1. Retrieved 8 December 2014.
  13. Paul C. Murschetz (25 January 2014). State Aid for Newspapers: Theories, Cases, Actions. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 309. ISBN 978-3-642-35691-9. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
  14. Frank Eriksson Barman (2014). "In search of a profitability framework for the local daily newspaper industry. A case study at Göteborgs-Posten" (REPORT). Gothenburg: Chalmers University of Technology. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
  15. "Swedish journalist, Auschwitz survivor Cordelia Edvardson dies at 83". Associated Press (Washington Post). 30 October 2012. Retrieved 11 November 2012.

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