Skånska Dagbladet

Skånska Dagbladet

Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Tabloid
Publisher	Skånska Dagbladet AB
Founded	1888
Language	Swedish
Headquarters	Malmö
Country	Sweden
Website	Skånska Dagbladet
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Skånska Dagbladet is a newspaper based in Malmö, Sweden, that has been in circulation since 1888.

History and profile

Skånska Dagbladet headquarters in Malmö

Skånska Dagbladet was established in 1888, and its headquarters is in Malmö.^[1][2] The Skånska Dagbladet AB is the publisher of Skånska Dagbladet.^[3] During the initial period the paper had four pages with six columns each.^[4] In the first quarter of the century the paper was acquired by the Agrarian Party.^[4]

Skånska Dagbladet is close to the Centre Party.^[5] The paper is published in tabloid format.^[6]

Circulation

At the beginning of the twentieth century its circulation expanded, being one-twentieth of the entire Swedish daily newspaper circulation.^[4] In the mid-1930s Skånska Dagbladet managed to sell more copies than the other Malmö papers Arbetet and Sydsvenska Dagbladet.^[7] However, it lost its position towards the mid-1950s.^[7]

In 2002 Skånska Dagbladet was the eighth best-selling newspaper with a circulation of 43,600 copies.^[8] It was the eighth largest newspaper in Sweden in terms of readership in 2009.^[9]

References

1. "Sweden: Historical and statistical handbook". Runeberg. Retrieved 27 May 2016.
2. "Brussels blasts Sweden over excessive press subsidies". The Local. 17 June 2009. Retrieved 27 May 2016.
3. Mart Ots (2011). "Competition and collaboration between Swedish newspapers – an overview and case study of a restructuring market" (PDF). Jönköping University. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 February 2015. Retrieved 27 May 2016.
4. 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.
5. Philip Barjami (13 May 2015). "Swedish newspaper landscape: An overview". Mundus International. Retrieved 27 May 2016.
6. Miren Gutierrez (20 March 2005). "Quality Could Survive Shrinking Broadsheets". Inter Press Service. Rome. Retrieved 27 May 2016.
7. Karl Erik Gustafsson (1978). "The circulation spiral and the principle of household coverage". Scandinavian Economic History Review. 26 (1): 6–7. doi:10.1080/03585522.1978.10407893.
8. David Ward (2004). "Media Concentration and Ownership in Ten European Countries" (PDF). Commissariaat voor de Media. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 28 May 2016.
9. Christian Albrekt Larsen (2013). The Rise and Fall of Social Cohesion: The Construction and De-construction of Social Trust in the US, UK, Sweden and Denmark. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 132. ISBN 978-0-19-968184-6.

External links

• Official website

• Media related to Skånska Dagbladet at Wikimedia Commons