Sundsvalls Tidning Explained

Type:Daily newspaper
Format:Tabloid
Owners:MittMedia
Political:Liberal
Language:Swedish
Headquarters:Sundsvall
Issn:1104-005X
Website:Sundsvalls Tidning

Sundsvalls Tidning is a local morning newspaper published in Sundsvall, Sweden. It has been in circulation since 1841.

History and profile

Sundsvalls Tidning was first published in January 1841 with eight pages.[1] The paper is based in Sundsvall[1] and is a local morning publication.[2] The owner of the paper was a family company with the same name until 1985 when it was acquired by the Gefle Dagblad company[3] which has a liberal stance.[4] In 1994 the Gefle Dagblad company became the sole owner of the paper.[3]

The company evolved to MittMedia and owns seventeen newspapers, including Sundsvalls Tidning[4] [5] which has a liberal leaning.[6]

In 2003, Sundsvalls Tidning acquired its local competitor, Dagbladet Nya Samhället.[5]

Sundsvalls Tidning was printed in broadsheet format until Spring 2005 when it switched to tabloid.[1] [7] The paper has a website, which is updated twice daily,[2] and a tablet e-paper.[8] In May 2013, the paper began to use the duplex serif and sans typefaces designed by Berton Hasbe.[9]

The paper sold 29,600 copies in 2010.[5] The circulation of Sundsvalls Tidning was 27,300 copies in 2012 and 25,400 copies in 2013.[10]

Notes and References

  1. Svenåke Boström. New designs, new formats. Strategy Report. June 2004. 3. 3. 43.
  2. Book: Electronic Services: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications. Hershey; New York. 2010. https://books.google.com/books?id=AWO-AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA1445. IGI Global. 978-1-61520-968-2. 1445. Carina I. Eriksson. Jesper Svensson. A User Centered Innovation Approach Identifying Key User Values for the E-Newspaper.
  3. Jonas Ohlsson. The Practice of Newspaper Ownership: Fifty Years of Control and Influence in the Swedish Local Press. 2012. University of Gothenburg. Bohus. 978-91-88212-98-6. 2077/29101. PhD.
  4. Web site: Jonas Ohlsson. From Family Affair to Corporate Subsidiary. The Contradictory Fortune of Sundsvalls Tidning. 2011. University of Gothenburg. 6 February 2015. Conference paper abstract.
  5. Mart Ots. Competition, Collaboration and Cooperation: Swedish Provincial Newspaper Markets In Transition. Journal of Media Business Studies. 9. 2. 2012. 10.1080/16522354.2012.11073543. 48.
  6. Web site: Customers. Shootitlive. 6 February 2015.
  7. Web site: 11 Swedish dailies become tabloids. Media Culpa. 6 February 2015. 7 September 2004.
  8. Web site: Åsa Moberg. Martin Johansson. Göran Finnveden. Alex Jonsson. Screening environmental life cycle assessment of printed, web based and tablet e-paper newspaper. Stockholm. 2007. KTH Centre for Sustainable Communications.
  9. News: Duplex for MittMedia, a newspaper group in Sweden. 6 February 2015. Commercial Type. 9 May 2013.
  10. Web site: Frank Eriksson Barman. In search of a profitability framework for the local daily newspaper industry. A case study at Göteborgs-Posten. Chalmers University of Technology. 6 March 2015. Report. Gothenburg. 2014.

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