''Ny Tid'' (Swedish: ''New Times'') was a

Swedish language Swedish ( ) is a North Germanic language spoken predominantly in Sweden and in parts of Finland. It has at least 10 million native speakers, the fourth most spoken Germanic language and the first among any other of its type in the Nordic countr ...

news magazine published in

Gothenburg Gothenburg (; abbreviated Gbg; sv, Göteborg ) is the second-largest city in Sweden, fifth-largest in the Nordic countries, and capital of the Västra Götaland County. It is situated by the Kattegat, on the west coast of Sweden, and has ...

published between 24 March 1892 and 2017 with some interruptions.

History and profile

The magazine was established by

Fredrik Sterky Fredrik Sterky (1860–1900) was an early Social Democrat and trade union organizer in Sweden. Fredrik Sterky co-founded and was chairman of the Swedish Trade Union Confederation from 1898. He was also the founder and editor of ''Ny Tid.'' He w ...

in Gothenburg in 1892, and its first issue appeared on 24 March that year. Sterky also edited the magazine from its start in 1892 to 1898. It was initially marketed as "Journal for the class-conscious workers' movement in West-Sweden" and appeared as a weekly or daily paper from time to time. In the 1940s Sven Backlund, father of the Swedish diplomat Sven Backlund, worked for the magazine as a foreign editor. The magazine folded in 1966, and its circulation was taken over by the Malmö-based social democratic daily ''

Arbetet ''Arbetet'' (Swedish: ''The Labour'') was a Swedish-language social democrat newspaper published in Malmö, Sweden, between 1887 and 2000. History and profile ''Arbetet'' was first published in Malmö on 6 August 1887. Axel Danielsson was the f ...

''. Although it was later restarted in 1993 and in 2006, it ceased publication after the publication of the issue dated 3 March 2017.

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