''Piteå-Tidningen'' (or ''PT'') is a regional newspaper 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 (), at the shore of ...

area of

Norrbotten County Norrbotten County (, Meänkieli/, ) 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 borders with Västerbotten County to the southwest, the Gulf ...

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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 most ...

valley, local unions and individuals. The paper has a

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policy. One of its contributors was Curt Boström who began to work at the paper in 1946. 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. 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 and Arjeplog. 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'' 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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