''Svenska Dagbladet'' (, "The Swedish Daily News"), abbreviated SvD, is a daily

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published in

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History and profile

The first issue of ''Svenska Dagbladet'' appeared on 18 December 1884. During the beginning of the 1900s the paper was one of the

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publications in Stockholm. Ivar Anderson is among its former

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who assumed the post in 1940. The same year ''Svenska Dagbladet'' was sold by Trygger family to the Enterprise Fund which had been established by fourteen Swedish businessmen to secure the ownership of the paper. The paper is published in

and provides coverage of national and international news as well as local coverage of the

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region. Its subscribers are concentrated in the capital, but it is distributed in most of Sweden. The paper was one of the critics of the Prime Minister Olof Palme, and in December 1984 it asked him to resign from the office following his interview published in ''

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''. ''Svenska Dagbladet'' is owned by

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which purchased it in the late 1990s. The stated position of the editorial page is "independently moderate" (''oberoende moderat''), which means it is independent but adheres to the liberal conservatism of the

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. Despite this position, the paper is also regarded as

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. In November 2000 ''Svenska Dagbladet'' changed its format from

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to tabloid. In 2005 the paper started a Web portal for business news as a joint venture with '' Aftonbladet''. Since 1925 ''Svenska Dagbladet'' has awarded an individual sportsperson or a team the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal at the end of each year. As the only other Swedish morning newspaper to aspire to full national and international coverage, Svenska Dagbladet is the chief rival of Dagens Nyheter. Anna Careborg was appointed acting CEO and Editor-in-chief in January 2019, taking over from Fredric Karén, who is now working with Torstar Group, owners of the Toronto Star, in Canada. Careborg took over fully as new CEO and Editor-in-chief of Svenska Dagbladet in October 2019.

Circulation

The circulation of ''Svenska Dagbladet'' was 185,000 copies in 2003. The paper had a circulation of 187,100 copies on weekdays in 2005. Among Swedish morning newspapers ''Svenska Dagbladet'' had the third largest circulation with 195,200 copies in 2007 after ''

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'' and ''

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In 2008 ''Svenska Dagbladet'' had a circulation of 123,383 copies. The circulation of the paper was 185,600 copies in 2011. It was 159,600 copies in 2012 and 143,400 copies in 2013.

Staff

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, appointed CEO of ''Svenska Dagbladet'' (2009) *

Cordelia Edvardson Cordelia Maria Edvardson (née Langgässer; 1 January 1929 – 29 October 2012) was a German-born Swedish journalist, author and Holocaust survivor. She was the Jerusalem correspondent for '' Svenska Dagbladet'', a Swedish daily newspaper, from 1 ...

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correspondent for ''Svenska Dagbladet'' from 1977 to 2006 *

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(1862–1906). File:SvD huset i Klara.JPG, Svenska Dagbladet's editorial house at Karduansmakargatan 13 / Klara Södra Kyrkogata in the ''Loen''

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References

External links

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