''Piteå-Tidningen''(or ''PT'') is a
regional newspaper
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published in the
Piteå
Piteå () is a locality and the seat of Piteå Municipality in Norrbotten County, Sweden. Piteå is Sweden's 58th largest city, with a population of 23,326.
Geography
Piteå is located at the mouth of the Pite River ( sv, Piteälven), at th ...
area of
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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. It was founded in 1915.
Piteå-Tidningen AB is owned by the labor movement in the
Pite River
The Pite River (''Bidumedno'' in Pite Sami. ''Piteälven'', ''Pite älv'' or ''Piteå älv'' in Swedish.) is a river in northern Sweden, flowing through the Norrbotten County. It is one of the four major rivers in Norrland that have been left mostl ...
valley, local unions and individuals. The magazine has a
social democratic
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editorial
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policy. Its chairman is Lars V. Granberg, and its CEO and editor is Matti Lilja.
Its central editorial office is in Piteå, with a local editorial office in
Älvsbyn
Älvsbyn (; translating to "the river village") is a locality and the seat of Älvsbyn Municipality in Norrbotten County, Sweden with 4,967 inhabitants in 2010. It is known as "The Pearl of Norrbotten".
Älvsbyn has a railway station that is serv ...
. Along with ''
Norra Västerbotten'' newspaper it is co-owner of the news agency ''
Nyheter i Norr'' ("News in the North"), which also monitors the municipalities of
Arvidsjaur
Arvidsjaur (; sju, Árviesjávrrie; ) is a Urban areas in Sweden, locality and the seat of Arvidsjaur Municipality in Norrbotten County, provinces of Sweden, province of Lapland, Sweden, Lapland, Sweden with 4,635 inhabitants in 2010.
Arvidsjaur ...
and
Arjeplog
Arjeplog (; Pite Sami: ) is a locality and the seat of Arjeplog Municipality in Norrbotten County, province of Lapland, Sweden with 1,977 inhabitants in 2010.
It is a popular winter test site for the Asian and European car industries and feature ...
.
The newspaper has a print run of 16,900 copies (2007). For the visually impaired, it also has a talking newspaper edition. It is the largest newspaper in the Pite River valley in competition with the liberal ''
Norra Västerbotten'' and county newspapers ''
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 ...
'' and ''
Norrbottens-Kuriren
''Norrbottens-Kuriren'' (simply ''NK'') is a daily regional conservative newspaper published in Norrbotten County, Sweden, and has its main office in Luleå.
History and profile
''Norrbottens-Kuriren'' was founded in 1861, and therefore is the o ...
''.
''Piteå-Tidningen'' is also a partner in
Norrbottens Media AB, which owns ''Norrländska Socialdemokraten'' and ''Norrbottens-Kuriren''.
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1915 establishments in Sweden
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