Dagen (Swedish newspaper)

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Dagen
Founder(s) Lewi Pethrus
Founded11 November 1945;76 years ago (1945-11-11)
LanguageSwedish
CountrySweden

Dagen, or since the early 2000s Nya Dagen, is a daily newspaper in Sweden with the expressed purpose of being a Christian voice in the media noise.

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History and profile

The first issue of the newspaper was published on 1 November 1945. [1] [2] Lewi Pethrus, the leader of the Pentecostal movement in Sweden was its founder [2] and its chief editor until his death in 1974. During this period the paper was the mouthpiece of the Pentecostal movement in Sweden. [1] This lasted until the 1990s when the paper expanded its profile and changed its management structure due to financial problems. [1]

Nya Dagen

In the early 2000s the paper was relaunched under the name of Nya Dagen (meaning 'The New Day' in English). [1] The circulation of Nya Dagen was 18,400 copies in 2006.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Olof Brunninge (2007). "Identity Dynamics in a Christian Newspaper: The Case of Dagen". NordMedia. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  2. 1 2 Karl Erik Gustafsson; Per Rydén (2010). A History of the Press in Sweden (PDF). Gothenburg: Nordicom. ISBN   978-91-86523-08-4. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 February 2015. Retrieved 2 March 2015.