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''Folkbladet'' (
Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...
: ''The People's Paper'') is a Swedish-language newspaper published in Norrköping, Sweden. The paper has been in circulation since 1905.


History and profile

The paper was founded by workers with the name ''Östergötlands Folkblad'' in 1905. In 1998 it was renamed ''Folkbladet''. The paper is headquartered in Norrköping and is owned by the Norrköping Tidningar AB (NTM Group). The company acquired the paper in 2000. ''
Norrköpings Tidningar ''Norrköpings Tidningar'' (English: ''Norrköping Times''), also known as ''NT'', is a Swedish language daily newspaper with its main distribution in northern and eastern Östergötland, Sweden. History and profile The newspaper was founded in ...
'' became its sister paper of following this acquisition. Before this transaction ''Folkbladet'' had a social democratic political stance. During this period one of the contributors was Lars Stjernkvist, a social democrat politician and future secretary general of the Swedish Social Democratic Party. In 2010 ''Folkbladet'' sold 6,500 copies.


See also

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List of Swedish newspapers The number of newspapers in Sweden was 235 in 1919. It decreased to 125 papers in the mid-1960s. In 2009 the number of the newspapers in the country was 90. This is a list of Swedish-language newspapers with their respective cities of publicatio ...


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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Folkbladet 1905 establishments in Sweden Mass media in Norrköping Daily newspapers published in Sweden Newspapers established in 1905 Swedish-language newspapers