Editing Expressen

{{Short description|Nationwide Swedish evening newspaper}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2015}}
{{Infobox newspaper
| name                 = {{Lang|sv|Expressen}}
| logo                 = Expressen wordmark.svg
| image                = Exoressen-16-December-2011.png
| image_size           = 
| caption              = {{Lang|sv|Expressen}} cover (16 December 2011) 
| type                 = [[Daily newspaper]]
| format               = [[Tabloid (newspaper format)|Tabloid]]
| owners               = [[Bonnier Group|Bonnier AB]]
| founder              = 
| publisher            = 
| editor               = 
| chiefeditor          = Klas Granström
| assoceditor          = 
| maneditor            = 
| newseditor           = 
| managingeditordesign = 
| campuseditor         = 
| campuschief          = 
| opeditor             = 
| sportseditor         = 
| photoeditor          = 
| staff                = 
| foundation           = {{start date and age|1944|11|16|df=y}}
| political            = Independent [[Liberal People's Party (Sweden)|liberal]]
| language             = 
| ceased publication   = 
| headquarters         = [[Stockholm]]
| circulation          = 270,900 (2010)
| sister newspapers    = 
| ISSN                 = 1103-923X
| oclc                 = 
| website              = {{URL|https://www.expressen.se/}}
}}

'''{{Lang|sv|Expressen}}''' (''The Express'') is one of two nationwide evening [[List of Swedish newspapers|newspapers in Sweden]]. Describing itself as independent liberal, {{Lang|sv|Expressen}} was founded in 1944;<ref>{{cite book|author=Lennart Weibull|editor1=Henrik Oscarsson|editor2=Stefan Dahlberg|editor3=Lena Wängnerud|title=Stepping Stones|date=2013|publisher=University of Gothenburg|location=Gothenburg|url=http://www.valforskning.pol.gu.se/digitalAssets/1460/1460559_stepping-stones---dahlberg-oscarsson--w--ngnerud--2013----compromised-version.pdf#page=97|access-date=8 January 2015|chapter=What has Happened with the Political Press? Perspectives on the Erosion in Swedish Newspaper Readership|archive-date=8 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150108213639/http://www.valforskning.pol.gu.se/digitalAssets/1460/1460559_stepping-stones---dahlberg-oscarsson--w--ngnerud--2013----compromised-version.pdf#page=97|url-status=dead}}</ref> its symbol is a [[wasp]] and its slogans are "it stings" or "{{Lang|sv|Expressen}} to your rescue".{{citation needed|date=August 2019}}

The newspaper awards the culture prize [[Expressens Heffaklump]] for children's and youth culture.

==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>

==Circulation==
In 1998, the circulation of {{Lang|sv|Expressen}} was 316,000 copies on weekdays and 396,000 copies on Sundays.<ref name=had/> The paper had a circulation of 334,000 copies in 2001.<ref>{{cite news|author=Adam Smith|title=Europe's Top Papers|url=http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/news/164161/|access-date=7 February 2015|work=campaign|date=15 November 2002}}</ref> The 2004 circulation of the paper was 335,000 copies.<ref name=bbc4/> It was 339,400 copies on weekdays in 2005.<ref name=swi>{{cite web|title=Swedish mass media |url=http://www.swedenabroad.com/SelectImageX/178411/Swedish_mass_media%5B1%5D.pdf |work=Swedish Institute |access-date=18 November 2014 |date=2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130925104744/http://www.swedenabroad.com/SelectImageX/178411/Swedish_mass_media%5B1%5D.pdf |archive-date=25 September 2013}}</ref> In 2010, the circulation of the paper had declined to 270,900 copies.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Expressen |encyclopedia= [[Nationalencyklopedin]] |language= sv |url= http://www.ne.se/expressen |access-date= 25 March 2011}}</ref>

==''Kvällsposten''==
''Kvällsposten'', founded in 1948, is – since 1998 – an edition of {{Lang|sv|Expressen}} distributed in the south of Sweden, including [[Skåne County|Skåne]] and [[Blekinge County|Blekinge]] counties. Its editorial offices are in [[Malmö]] and the editor in chief is Magnus Ringman.

==''GT''==
''Göteborgs-Tidningen'' or ''GT'' was a tabloid newspaper founded in [[Gothenburg]] in 1902. ''GT'' was owned by ''[[Göteborgs Handels- och Sjöfartstidning]]'', but in 1973 it was acquired by ''[[Göteborgs-Posten]]''. In 1998, [[Bonnier AB]] bought the newspaper and since then it has become a regional edition of {{Lang|sv|Expressen}} – distributed in the southwest of Sweden, including [[Västra Götaland County]].

''GT''{{'}}s headquarters are in Gothenburg<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gt.se/nyheter/1.724124/sa-kontaktar-du-gt|language=sv|title=Så kontaktar du GT|access-date=25 October 2009|work=Göteborgs-Tidningen|archive-date=18 March 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090318150010/http://www.gt.se/nyheter/1.724124/sa-kontaktar-du-gt|url-status=dead}}</ref> and its editor in chief is Christer El-Mochantaf.<ref>[https://www.expressen.se/gt/christer-el-mochantaf-nychefredaktor-pa-gt/ Expressen-GT] 5 April 2019</ref>

==See also==
*[[List of Swedish newspapers]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.expressen.se/ {{Lang|sv|Expressen}}] — official website
*[http://www.gt.se/ ''GT''] — official website
*[http://www.kvp.se/ ''Kvällsposten''] — official website

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