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{{Short description|Danish tabloid newspaper}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2015}} {{expand Danish|date=June 2023}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = {{Lang|da|Ekstra Bladet}} | logo = Ekstra Bladet logo.png | logo_size = 175px | image = Ekstra-bladet-friday-14-04-2017-cover.jpg | image_size = 240px | type = [[Daily newspaper]] | format = [[Tabloid (newspaper format)|Tabloid]] | foundation = {{start date and age|1904|2|12|df=yes}} | owners = [[JP/Politikens Hus|JP/Politikens Hus A/S]] | publisher = JP/Politikens Hus | editor = [[Knud Brix]] | circulation = 60,000 (2012) | language = Danish | political = Traditionally centre-left; no current alignment | headquarters = [[Copenhagen]], Denmark | website = {{URL|http://ekstrabladet.dk/}} }} '''{{Lang|da|Ekstra Bladet}}''' is a [[Danish language|Danish]] [[Tabloid (newspaper format)|tabloid]] [[newspaper]], published by [[JP/Politikens Hus]] in Copenhagen.<ref name="ebabout">[http://ekstrabladet.dk/om_ekstra_bladet/ About] (in Danish) {{Lang|da|Ekstra Bladet}}. Retrieved 22 September 2010. "noise and ruckus", "occasional indignation", "Always in opposition"</ref><ref name="ebsaid">[http://ekstrabladet.dk/om_ekstra_bladet/?p=12 Said about us] (in Danish) {{Lang|da|Ekstra Bladet}}. Retrieved: 22 September 2010.</ref> It was founded in 1904 as an evening edition to ''[[Politiken]]''. In 1905 the newspaper was established in its own right and has since focused on investigative journalism, news, sports and entertainment. It has been described as a sensationalistic newspaper.<ref>{{cite web |last= Wagner |first= Finn |title= Hvem læser Ekstrabladet? |trans-title= Who reads ''Ekstra Bladet''? |date= 7 February 2020 |accessdate= 2022-01-15 |website= fyens.dk |language= Danish |url= https://fyens.dk/artikel/hvem-l%C3%A6ser-ekstrabladet}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last= Olsen |first= Jens Erik |title= Klumme: Ekstra Bladet tør |trans-title= Column: Extra Bladet dares |date= 26 January 2010 |accessdate= 2022-01-15 |website= Ekstra Bladet |language= Danish |url= https://ekstrabladet.dk/nationen/article4183295.ece}}</ref> Since April 2022, [[Knud Brix]] has been editor-in-chief. ==History and profile== The newspaper began publication 1904<ref>{{cite web|author1=Jose L. Alvarez |author2=Carmelo Mazza |author3=Jordi Mur |title=The management publishing industry in Europe |url=http://www.iese.edu/research/pdfs/OP-99-04-E.pdf |work=University of Navarra |access-date=27 April 2015 |format=Occasional Paper No:99/4 |date=October 1999 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100630042406/http://www.iese.edu/research/pdfs/OP-99-04-E.pdf |archive-date=30 June 2010 |df=dmy }}</ref><ref name=con>{{cite web|author=Anna B. Holm|title=Discontinuities in Business Model Innovation of the Danish Newspaper Industry|url=http://regconf.hse.ru/uploads/eeb884d6b8e24fb82b5185e2742b340ca35faa2c.pdf|work=Conferenga|access-date=12 December 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141215034358/http://regconf.hse.ru/uploads/eeb884d6b8e24fb82b5185e2742b340ca35faa2c.pdf|archive-date=15 December 2014|df=dmy-all}}</ref> as a [[Supplement (publishing)|supplement]] to the ''[[Politiken]]'' newspaper, and a year later, it became a separate newspaper. The headquarters of the paper is in [[Copenhagen]].<ref name=dfi/> In December 2010 {{Lang|da|Ekstra Bladet}} editor-in-chief Poul Madsen threatened to complain to the [[European Court of Justice]] after its submission of an application to [[Apple Inc.|Apple]]'s [[App Store (iOS)|App Store]] was rejected.<ref>[http://www.cphpost.dk/business/119-business/50607-apple-clashes-with-tabloid-over-breasts.html Apple clashes with tabloid over breasts ] ''The Copenhagen Post''. Retrieved 8 December 2010.</ref> Madsen claimed the application was deemed offensive, and in an editorial described Apple as being an "American nanny".<ref>[http://ekstrabladet.dk/nyheder/samfund/article1464482.ece Kommentar: Vi har ikke brug for en amerikansk nanny] (in Danish) {{Lang|da|Ekstra Bladet}}. Retrieved 8 December 2010.</ref> Since 5 October 2012 ''[[Tipsbladet]]'', an association football magazine, has been sold with the Friday edition of {{Lang|da|Ekstra Bladet}}.<ref>{{cite news|title=Ekstra Bladet / Tipsbladet|url=https://s3.amazonaws.com/inma-awards-uploads/39E5850F40DF4599A8F35096868A5768.pdf|access-date=29 May 2016|work=INMA|date=2013}}</ref> The current [[editor-in-chief]] is [[Henrik Qvortrup]] who took over in July 2021.<ref name=TV2>{{cite web|url=https://nyheder.tv2.dk/samfund/2021-05-19-henrik-qvortrup-bliver-chefredaktoer-paa-ekstra-bladet|title=Henrik Qvortrup bliver chefredaktør på Ekstra Bladet|language=da|publisher=[[TV2 (Denmark)|TV2]]|date=19 May 2021|access-date=15 January 2022}}</ref> [[Poul Madsen]] was chief editor from September 2007 through March 2021.<ref name=Pol>{{cite news|url=http://politiken.dk/indland/article375267.ece|title=Hans Engell forlader Ekstra Bladet|language=da|date=6 September 2007|access-date=6 September 2007|work=Politiken}}</ref><ref name=TV2/> [[Hans Engell]] held the position from 2000 to 2007.<ref name=Pol/> Victor Andreasen served as the editor-in-chief of the paper for two times, between 1963 and 1967 and between 1971 and 1976.<ref>{{cite web|title=Factsheet Denmark|url=http://dipd.dk/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/factsheet_Mass_Media.pdf|work=Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark|access-date=9 May 2015|date=January 2007|archive-date=18 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171018041659/http://dipd.dk/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/factsheet_Mass_Media.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> For over 100 years, {{Lang|da|Ekstra Bladet}}s main competitor has been ''[[BT (tabloid)|BT]]'' published by [[Berlingske Media]]. ==Circulation== {{Lang|da|Ekstra Bladet}}{{'s}} readership and circulation has declined in recent years, and continues to do so.<ref name=dfi>{{cite news|author=Demetrios Matheou|title=The Future of (Tabloid) Newspapers|url=http://www.dfi-film.dk/the-future-of-tabloid-newspapers|access-date=2 January 2015|work=Danish Film Institute|date=10 November 2014}}</ref><ref>[http://salg.eb.dk/ekstra-bladet/laesere-og-oplag/ Readers] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221013825/http://salg.eb.dk/ekstra-bladet/laesere-og-oplag/ |date=21 February 2014 }} {{Lang|da|Ekstra Bladet}}. Retrieved 22 September 2010.</ref> During the last six months of 1957 the paper had a circulation of 68,178 copies on weekdays.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Britt-Mari Persson Blegvad|title=Newspapers and Rock and Roll Riots in Copenhagen|journal=Acta Sociologica|date=1964|volume=7|issue=3|pages=151–178 |doi=10.1177/000169936400700302 |jstor=4193580}}</ref> The circulation of the paper was 210,000 copies in 1991, 198,000 copies in 1992 and 185,000 copies in 1993.<ref name=dst/> It fell to 177,000 copies in 1994, to 168,000 in 1995 and to 166,000 copies in 1996.<ref name=dst/> Although its circulation grew to 169,000 copies in 1997, it again decreased and was 159,000 copies in 1998 and 148,000 copies in 1999.<ref name=dst/> It was 134,000 copies in 2000 and 127,000 copies in 2001.<ref name=dst>{{cite web|title=Culture|url=http://www.dst.dk/pukora/epub/upload/3149/cult.pdf|work=Danmarks Statistik|access-date=9 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150509120926/http://www.dst.dk/pukora/epub/upload/3149/cult.pdf|archive-date=9 May 2015}}</ref> The circulation of the paper fell to 119,000 copies in 2002.<ref>{{cite web|title=World Press Trends 2003|url=http://www.wan-press.org/IMG/pdf/2003wpt.pdf|work=World Association of Newspapers|access-date=15 February 2015|location=Paris|date=2004|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171108215853/http://www.wan-press.org/IMG/pdf/2003wpt.pdf|archive-date=8 November 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> It was the fourth best selling Danish newspaper in 2003 with a circulation of 110,000 copies.<ref>{{cite web|title=World Press Trends|url=http://www.wan-press.org/ecrire/upload/wpt2004.pdf|work=World Association of Newspapers|access-date=8 February 2015|location=Paris|date=2004}}</ref> In 2004, the paper had a circulation of 110,000 copies.<ref name=bbc5>{{cite news|title=The Press in Denmark|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4059213.stm|access-date=17 December 2014|work=BBC|date=20 December 2005}}</ref> There is another report giving its 2004 circulation as 106,000 copies.<ref>{{cite web|title=Media pluralism in the Member States of the European Union|url=http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/media_taskforce/doc/pluralism/media_pluralism_swp_en.pdf|work=Commission of the European Communities|access-date=27 March 2015|location=Brussels|date=16 January 2007}}</ref> In 2012, the paper had a circulation of 60,000 copies.<ref name=dfi/> In January 2012, the paper's website had an [[Alexa Internet]] global rank of #2061 and a rank of #5 in Denmark.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ekstrabladet.dk|title=Statistics Summary for ekstrabladet.dk|access-date=7 Dec 2017|date=7 January 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120107020919/https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ekstrabladet.dk|archive-date=7 January 2012|publisher=[[Alexa Internet]]}}</ref> {{asof|July 2018|post=,}} the site held ranks of #3359 globally and #9 in Denmark.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ekstrabladet.dk|title=ekstrabladet.dk Traffic Statistics|access-date=22 July 2018|date=23 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180713021732/https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ekstrabladet.dk|archive-date=13 July 2018|publisher=[[Alexa Internet]]}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== * {{Official website|https://ekstrabladet.dk/}} {{in lang|da}} *{{Commons-inline}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Ekstra Bladet}} [[Category:Ekstra Bladet| ]] [[Category:1904 establishments in Denmark]] [[Category:Danish-language newspapers]] [[Category:Newspapers published in Copenhagen]] [[Category:Daily newspapers published in Denmark]] [[Category:Newspapers established in 1904]] [[Category:Danish news websites]]
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