Folkbladet (Swedish: The People's Paper) is a Swedish-language newspaper published in Norrköping, Sweden. The paper has been in circulation since 1905.
History and profile
Folkbladet headquarters in Norrköping
The paper was founded by workers with the name Östergötlands Folkblad in 1905.[1] In 1998 it was renamed Folkbladet.[1] The paper is headquartered in Norrköping and is owned by the Norrköping Tidningar AB (NTM Group).[2] The company acquired the paper in 2000.[3]Norrköpings Tidningar became its sister paper of following this acquisition.[4]
Before this transaction Folkbladet had a social democratic political stance.[5] When it was a social democratic publication one of its contributors was Lars Stjernkvist, a social democrat politician and future secretary general of the Swedish Social Democratic Party.[6]
^ abMart Ots (2012). "Competition, Collaboration and Cooperation: Swedish Provincial Newspaper Markets In Transition". Journal of Media Business Studies. 9 (2): 48, 52. doi:10.1080/16522354.2012.11073543. S2CID168143084.
^Christoffer Rydland (2013). Aspects of Cooperation and Corporate Governance in the Swedish Regional Newspaper Industry (PhD thesis). Stockholm School of Economics. CiteSeerX10.1.1.691.9551. ISBN9789172588851.