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''Politiken'' is a leading
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daily
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, published by
JP/Politikens Hus JP/Politikens Hus A/S (''House of JP/Politiken'') is a Danish media company. History and profile JP/Politikens Hus was established on 1 January 2003 as a merger between Politikens Hus and Jyllands-Posten A/S, publishing companies of the major b ...
in
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,
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. It was founded in 1884 and played a role in the formation of the
Danish Social Liberal Party The Danish Social Liberal Party ( da, Radikale Venstre, , Radical Left) is a social-liberal political party in Denmark. The party was founded as a split from the Venstre Reform Party in 1905. Historically, the centrist party has played a cent ...
. Since 1970 it has been independent of the party but maintains a
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stance. It now runs an
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, ''politiken.dk''. The paper's
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has won several international awards, and a number of its journalists have won the
Cavling Prize The Cavling Prize is a prestigious Danish journalist award. It is awarded annually in January to "a journalist or a group of journalists who have shown initiative and talent in the past year." It is generally considered the most prestigious priz ...
.


History and profile

''Dagbladet Politiken'' was founded on 1 October 1884 in
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by
Viggo Hørup Viggo Lauritz Bentheim Hørup (22 May 1841 – 15 February 1902) was a Danish politician, journalist and agitator. He was the father of Ellen Hørup (1871-1953). He was one of the most influential politicians of the Danish non-Socialist l ...
,
Edvard Brandes Carl Edvard Cohen Brandes (21 October 1847, in Copenhagen – 20 December 1931, in Copenhagen) was a Danish politician, critic and author, and the younger brother of Georg Brandes and Ernst Brandes. He had a Ph.D. in eastern philology. Biograp ...
and Hermann Bing. Hørup and Brandes formed the newspaper after being fired as editors from the ''
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'' over political differences. Hørup led the paper as
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for fifteen years from its start in 1884. In 1904, the tabloid ''
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'' was founded as a supplement to ''Politiken ''and was later spun off as an independent newspaper on 1 January 1905. The paper established its present location in central Copenhagen at The City Hall Square in 1912. In 1987 ''Politiken'' started its business supplement. The paper was published by Politikens Hus until 1 January 2003 when the company merged with Jyllands-Posten A/S to form
JP/Politikens Hus JP/Politikens Hus A/S (''House of JP/Politiken'') is a Danish media company. History and profile JP/Politikens Hus was established on 1 January 2003 as a merger between Politikens Hus and Jyllands-Posten A/S, publishing companies of the major b ...
. Thus, ''
Jyllands-Posten ''Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten'' (; English: ''The Morning Newspaper "The Jutland Post"''), commonly shortened to ''Jyllands-Posten'' or ''JP'', is a Danish daily broadsheet newspaper. It is based in Aarhus C, Jutland, and with a weekday circula ...
'' became its sister paper. ''Politiken'' is published in
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format. The newspaper also publishes an international edition named ''Politiken Weekly'' which compiles the most important stories of the week for Danes living abroad. In 2012, ''Politiken Foundation'' became one of the founding members of the
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. In February 2020 ''Politiken'' and its editor-in-chief, Christian Jensen, had to pay a fine due to the publication of the sections from a book on the security and intelligence of Denmark in 2016. Since 2016, Danish journalist
Mette Davidsen-Nielsen Mette Davidsen-Nielsen (born May 10, 1965, in Frederiksberg) is a Danish journalist, who served as the CEO for ''Dagbladet Information'' from 2010 to 2016. Since 2016, she has been the cultural editor for ''Politiken ''Politiken'' is a lea ...
has worked as the cultural editor at ''Politiken Foundation.''


Wartime reporting

On 28 April 1940, three weeks after the German invasion of Denmark, ''Politiken'' ran an editorial in which
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was called "a dangerous man". The editorial was written by foreign affairs editor Einard Schou after a conversation in the editor-in-chief's office with chairman of the board and soon-to-be-again Danish foreign minister
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. The aim is thought to have been to please the German occupation force, though no other Danish newspaper took such steps at the time. Usually, it was enough to keep within the newly introduced censorship. The article led to 15,000 readers, about 10% of subscribers, cancelling their subscriptions in protest.


Editorial line

During the early 1900s ''Politiken'' had a cultural radical political stance. Historically the paper was connected to the Danish Social Liberal Party (
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), but the newspaper declared its political independence in 1970. The paper has a far-leaning social,
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and
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stance. In February 2010 the editor in chief at the time
Tøger Seidenfaden Tøger Seidenfaden (28 April 1957 – 27 January 2011) was a Danish journalist and political scientist, and, from 1993 until his death, editor-in-chief of the broadsheet newspaper ''Politiken''. His father, Erik Seidenfaden, was also a journali ...
apologized to anyone who was offended by the newspaper's decision to reprint the cartoon drawing by
Kurt Westergaard Kurt Westergaard (born Kurt Vestergaard; 13 July 1935 – 14 July 2021) was a Danish cartoonist. In 2005 he drew a cartoon of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, wearing a bomb in his turban as a part of the ''Jyllands-Posten'' Muhammad cartoons, w ...
depicting Muhammed with a bomb in his turban, which was originally published in '' Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten''. Seidenfaden explained that "''Politiken'' has never intended to reprint the cartoon drawing as a statement of editorial opinion or values but merely as part of the newspaper's news coverage".


Circulation

''Politiken'' started with a daily circulation of 2,000 copies. Its circulation was 23,142 copies in 1901. In 1910 its circulation rose to 41,400 copies. Later it became one of Denmark's leading newspapers in terms of both circulated copies and number of readers. Its circulation was 165,615 copies in 1950. During the last six months of 1957 the paper had a circulation of 148,169 copies on weekdays. It fell to 142,847 copies in 1960. The circulation of the paper was 134,728 in 1970, 138,921 copies in 1980 and 152,435 copies in 1990. During the second half of 1997 its circulation was 146,000 copies on weekdays. ''Politiken'' had a circulation of 143,000 copies on weekdays and 185,000 copies on Sundays in the first quarter of 2000, making it the third best selling newspaper in the country. It was 142,780 copies in 2000. In 2002 it was the third best-selling newspaper in the country with a circulation of 142,000 copies. The circulation of the paper was 137,000 copies in 2003, making it again the third best selling newspaper in the country. In 2004 the paper had a circulation of 134,000 copies. The circulation of ''Politiken'' was 110,230 copies in 2007. The number of copies sold per day in the first half of 2012 were 97,820 on weekdays and Saturdays, and 120,411 on Sundays.Dansk Oplagskontrol
/ref> The same year the number of readers were 375,000 on weekdays and Saturdays, and 479,000 readers on Sundays. The paper had a circulation of 88,597 copies in 2013. Its online newspaper, politiken.dk, received around 800,000 monthly users in 2011 and was the tenth most viewed page among the members of the Association of Danish Interactive Media.


Awards

Internationally, ''Politiken'' has received recognition for its design through the form of several awards. In 2012 ''Politiken'' was declared 'World's Best' along with four other newspapers in a competition carried out by the Society for News Design. In 2014 the paper was chosen as one of
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’s best-designed newspapers in the Best of Scandinavian News Design competition. The paper's design, format, and brand was given as the reason, when in 2010, the European Newspapers Congress awarded ''Politiken'' with the European Newspaper Award in the national newspaper category. ''Politiken'' has also been known for its photography.
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, winner of several World Press Photo Awards and numerous other prizes, was a staff photographer from 2003 until 2009. Anselm Hüwe is one of the contemporary awarded photographers.


The Cavling Award

'' Cavlingprisen'' ("The Cavling Award") is a Danish honorary award for journalism. It was named after a former reporter and editor-in-chief at ''Politiken'' Henrik Cavling. Cavling award winners at ''Politiken'': * 1945 Henrik V. Ringsted * 1946 Kristian Find (Findus) * 1962 Jørgen Hartmann-Petersen (Habakuk) * 1966
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* 1967 Sune Skallerup Sørensen * 1968 Erik Nørgaard * 1974 Anne Wolden-Ræthinge (Ninka) * 1976
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* 1982 J. B. Holmgaard * 1992 Svend Bjering Schmidt (Svenne) * 2006 Miriam Dalsgaard (photographer) and
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Editors in chief

''Politiken'' has had a number of editors in chief since its inception. In some periods there were more than one editor at a time, causing overlap. * 1884–1901:
Viggo Hørup Viggo Lauritz Bentheim Hørup (22 May 1841 – 15 February 1902) was a Danish politician, journalist and agitator. He was the father of Ellen Hørup (1871-1953). He was one of the most influential politicians of the Danish non-Socialist l ...
* 1901–1904:
Edvard Brandes Carl Edvard Cohen Brandes (21 October 1847, in Copenhagen – 20 December 1931, in Copenhagen) was a Danish politician, critic and author, and the younger brother of Georg Brandes and Ernst Brandes. He had a Ph.D. in eastern philology. Biograp ...
* 1905–1927: Henrik Cavling * 1927–1937: Valdemar Koppel * 1937–1933:
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* 1931–1959: Niels Hasager * 1941–1963: Poul Graae * 1946–1959:
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* 1959–1963: Svend Tillge-Rasmussen * 1963–1966: Bo Bramsen * 1963–1970: Ernst Priemé * 1963–1971: Harald Engberg * 1966–1971:
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* 1970–1993:
Herbert Pundik Herbert Pundik or Nahum Pundak ( he, נחום פונדק; September 23, 1927 – December 8, 2019) was a Danish-Israeli journalist and author. He worked for the newspaper Information and as a correspondent for Danmarks Radio. Since 1965, he worked ...
* 1971–1982: Bent Thorndahl * 1981–1993: Agner Ahm * 1981–1992: Jørgen GrunnetJørgen Grunnet død
''Politiken''. 22 January 2009.
* 1993–2011:
Tøger Seidenfaden Tøger Seidenfaden (28 April 1957 – 27 January 2011) was a Danish journalist and political scientist, and, from 1993 until his death, editor-in-chief of the broadsheet newspaper ''Politiken''. His father, Erik Seidenfaden, was also a journali ...
* 2011– 2016: Bo Lidegaard * 2016-: Christian Jensen


See also

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References

* Bjørn Bredal, Politiken mod Politiken – Idékampe 1884–2009, Politikens Forlag, 2009. .


External links

*
News in English. From ''Politiken''
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