Editing Expressen (section)

==Overview==
The first edition of {{Lang|sv|Expressen}} was published on 16 November 1944.<ref name=had>{{cite journal|author1=Stig Hadenius|author2=Lennart Weibull|title=The Swedish Newspaper System in the Late 1990s. Tradition and Transition|journal=Nordicom Review|date=1999|volume=1|issue=1|url=http://www.nordicom.gu.se/sites/default/files/kapitel-pdf/31_hadenius-weibull.pdf|access-date=31 December 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author1=Karl Erik Gustafsson|author2=Per Rydén|title=A History of the Press in Sweden|date=2010|publisher=Nordicom|location=Gothenburg|isbn=978-91-86523-08-4|url=http://presshistoria.se/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/A-history-of-the-Press-in-Sweden.pdf|access-date=2 March 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150213232250/http://presshistoria.se/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/A-history-of-the-Press-in-Sweden.pdf|archive-date=13 February 2015|df=dmy-all}}</ref> A main feature that day was an interview with the crew members of a British [[bomber]] who were successful in sinking the German ship [[German battleship Tirpitz|''Tirpitz'']]. A project of [[Albert Bonnier Jr.]], [[Carl-Adam Nycop]], and [[Ivar Harrie]] – who was to become the first editor-in-chief – {{Lang|sv|Expressen}} was created in part to push back against "[[national socialism]] and related violent ideologies."<ref>{{cite web |title=Expressens historia |url=https://www.expressen.se/om-expressen/expressens-historia/ |website=Expressen |date=9 January 2018 |access-date=6 October 2019}}</ref>

The paper is owned by the [[Bonnier Group]].<ref>{{cite web|author=Robert G. Picard|title=Media Ownership and Concentration in the Nordic Nations|url=http://www.cem.ulaval.ca/pdf/Paysnordiques.pdf|publisher=Le Centre d'études sur les médias|access-date=13 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923201640/http://www.cem.ulaval.ca/pdf/Paysnordiques.pdf|archive-date=23 September 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=bbc4>{{cite news|title=The press in Sweden|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3553279.stm|access-date=18 November 2014|work=BBC News|date=2004}}</ref> As of 2005, the paper had a [[Liberalism|liberal]] stance,<ref name=swi/> but it declared its independent leaning in 1995.<ref name=had/>

Through mergers, the [[Gothenburg]] edition of {{Lang|sv|Expressen}} is titled ''[[#GT|GT]]'' (originally ''Göteborgs-Tidningen'') and the [[Malmö]] edition is titled ''[[#Kvällsposten|Kvällsposten]]'', but the three share half of the content. {{Lang|sv|Expressen}} (with ''GT'' and ''Kvällsposten'') maintains a [[centre-right]] political profile, describing its editorial position as "independent [[liberalism|liberal]]", while the competitor ''Aftonbladet'' is independent [[social democracy|social-democratic]]. Ownership of {{Lang|sv|Expressen}} (and Sweden's largest morning newspaper, {{Lang|sv|[[Dagens Nyheter]]}}) is controlled by the [[Bonnier family]], while ''Aftonbladet'' is owned jointly by Swedish trade unions and the Norwegian publishing family [[Schibsted]].

=== List of editors in chief===
* 2020– [[Klas Granström]]
* 2019– [[Klas Granström]] (acting)
* 2009–2019 [[Thomas Mattsson]]
* 2002–2008 – [[Otto Sjöberg]]
* 2001–2002 – [[Joachim Berner]]
* 1997–2001 – [[Staffan Thorsell]]
* 1995–1996 – [[Christina Jutterström]]
* 1994–1995 – [[Olle Wästberg]]
* 1991–1993 – [[Erik Månsson]]
* 1977–1991 – [[Bo Strömstedt]]
* 1960–1977 – [[Per Wrigstad]]
* 1944–1960 – [[Ivar Harrie]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Expressens historia |url=https://www.expressen.se/om-expressen/expressens-historia/ |website=Expressen |date=9 January 2018 |access-date=6 October 2019}}</ref>