''Weekendavisen'' (meaning ''The Weekend Newspaper'' in English) is a

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weekly broadsheet

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published on Fridays in Denmark. Its circulation (as of 2007) is approximately 60,000 copies, about ten per cent of which cover subscriptions outside Denmark. According to opinion polls, however, the actual number of readers is much higher (290,000 in 2007).

History

Until 1971 the Danish postal service distributed

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twice daily, in the morning and in the afternoon. When afternoon mail delivery was discontinued, ''Berlingske Aftenavis'' (''Berlingske Evening Newspaper''), which was the evening edition of the daily newspaper ''

Berlingske Tidende ''Berlingske'', previously known as ''Berlingske Tidende'' (, ''Berling's Times''), is a Danish national daily newspaper based in Copenhagen. It is considered a newspaper of record for Denmark. First published on 3 January 1749, ''Berlingske'' ...

'', had to cease publication, and ''Weekendavisen'' came into existence as a replacement, known for the first several years as ''Weekendavisen Berlingske Aften''. The owner and publisher of the paper is the Berlingske Officin. ''Weekendavisens

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contains the original

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of ''Berlingske Tidende'', including the words " ANNO 1749", and its

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count begins in that year rather than in 1971 because its publishers and editors regard it as a continuation of the original ''Berlingske Tidende''.

Characteristics

''Weekendavisen'' is a

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newspaper containing in-depth analyses of

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and

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as well as extensive coverage of

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and

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s. The weekly covers matters of national and international rather than local interest. ''Weekendavisen'' is split into four sections each week: Society, Culture, Books and Ideas, which covers science-related news and articles.

Awards

''Weekendavisen'' presents the annual Weekendavisen Book Award. The nominees are selected by the newspaper's corps of literary critics and the final winner is selected by the readers.

Editors-in-chief

* 1950-1973:

Otto Fog-Petersen Otto Fog-Petersen 20 August 1914 - 10 June 2003) was a Danish journalist who served as editor-in-chief of Berlingske Aftenavis and later Weekendavisen. Biography Fog-Petersen was born in Nibe outside Aalborg and attended Sorø Academy. He was e ...

* 1973-1978: Henning Fonsmark * 1978-1984: Frank Esmann * 1984-1987 Jørgen Schleimann * 1987-1992

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 ...

* 1992-1998 Peter Wivel * 1998-2017 Anne Knudsen * 2017- Martin Krasnik

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