Former editors | Börge Bengtsson |
---|---|
Frequency | Weekly |
Publisher | Åhlén & Åkerlunds |
Founder | Erik Åkerlund |
Founded | 1910 |
Final issue | 1963 |
Country | Sweden |
Based in | Stockholm |
Language | Swedish |
Vecko-Journalen (Swedish: Weekly Record) was a weekly magazine published under various titles from 1910 to 2002. [1]
Vecko-Journalen was founded by Erik Åkerlund in 1910. The same year he also established the publishing company Åhlén & Åkerlunds. [2] The company was acquired by the Bonnier Group in 1929. [3] The magazine was based in Stockholm and was published on a weekly basis. [4] Among many others, Börge Bengtsson served as the editor-in-chief of the magazine. [5]
Vecko-Journalen frequently featured life of Carl Emil Pettersson, a Swedish adventurer, in the 1930s. [6] It was one of the Swedish publications which contained news materials provided by the Swedish Intelligence Agency during World War II. [7]
It was published weekly from 1910 to 1963 when it merged with the magazine Idun and took the double-barrelled name Idun-Veckojournalen. The merged magazine continued to be published weekly until 1980, when falling circulation figures forced it to a monthly cycle, and it was renamed Månadsjournalen (Swedish: Monthly Record). It ceased publication in 2002.
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