''Norrbottens-Kuriren'' (simply ''NK'') is a daily regional
conservative
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newspaper published in
Norrbotten County
Norrbotten County ( sv, Norrbottens län; se, Norrbottena leatna, fi, Norrbottenin lääni) is the northernmost county or '' län'' of Sweden. It is also the largest county by land area, almost a quarter of Sweden's total area. It shares border ...
,
Sweden
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, and has its main office in
Luleå
Luleå ( , , locally ; smj, Luleju; fi, Luulaja) is a city on the coast of northern Sweden, and the capital of Norrbotten County, the northernmost county in Sweden. Luleå has 48,728 inhabitants in its urban core (2018) and is the seat of Lu ...
.
History and profile
''Norrbottens-Kuriren'' was founded in 1861,
and therefore is the oldest newspaper in the region. The paper was acquired by Norrköping Tidningar AB (NTM Group) in 2000.
The company also owns ''
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 ...
'' and ''
Folkbladet
''Folkbladet'' (Swedish: ''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 ''Östergötla ...
'' among the others.
[
''Norrbottens-Kuriren'' is published in ]Berliner format
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Origi ...
.left-wing
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newspaper ''Norrskensflamman
''Flamman'' (meaning ''The Flame'' in English), also known as ''Norrskensflamman'' (meaning ''The Flame of the Aurora Borealis'' in English), is a Swedish socialist newspaper.
History and profile
''Flamman'' was founded in 1906 by the workers in ...
'', in which five people died. In the surrounding area, ''Norrbottens-Kuriren'' has one main competitor, named ''Norrländska Socialdemokraten
''Norrländska Socialdemokraten'' (''NSD'') (Swedish: ''The Norrland Social Democrat'') is a daily regional newspaper published in Norrbotten County, Sweden.
History and profile
As of the division of the Swedish Social Democratic Workers' Part ...
'' (NSD). The managing director is Sture Bergman.
In 1996 the circulation of ''Norrbottens-Kuriren'' was 30,700 copies.[ In 2005, the paper had 27,600 readers. The paper had a circulation of 19,600 copies in 2010.][
]
See also
* 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 ...
References
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[{{cite encyclopedia, title=Norrbottens-Kuriren, encyclopedia=]Nationalencyklopedin
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, language=Swedish, url=http://www.ne.se/norrbottens-kuriren, accessdate=25 March 2011
External links
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1861 establishments in Sweden
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