Upsala Nya Tidning

Upsala Nya Tidning
Type Daily newspaper
Format Tabloid
Owner(s) Norrköping Tidningar AB
Editor-in-chief Charlotta Friborg
Founded 1890 (1890)
Language Swedish
Headquarters Uppsala, Sweden
Circulation 45,600 (2013)
ISSN 1104-0173
Website www.unt.se

Upsala Nya Tidning or UNT is a regional daily newspaper published in Uppsala (older spelling Upsala), Sweden. The name means Upsala New Newspaper.

History and profile

Upsala Nya Tidning was established in 1890.[1][2] The distribution and news coverage are mainly regional, while the editorial page is devoted to national and international as well as regional affairs. The stated political position of the editorial page is "independent liberal". The paper was published in broadsheet format until 1 February 2005 when it began to be published in tabloid format.[3][4]

Upsala Nya Tidning was owned by the Uppsala Nya Tidning AB[5] until 2009 when it was acquired by the Norrköping Tidningar AB.[6]

In August 2008 the newspaper first published a story about a 78-year-old woman who put herself down the baggage chute at the airport after misreading check-in signs. The story was reported by international newspapers and radio stations, including those in the United Kingdom.

Circulation

Upsala Nya Tidning had a circulation of 62,800 copies in 2003.[5] It was 49,900 copies in 2010.[7] The circulation of the paper was 47,700 copies in 2012 and 45,600 copies in 2013.[8]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Christoffer Rydland (2013). "Aspects of Cooperation and Corporate Governance in the Swedish Regional Newspaper Industry" (PhD Thesis). Stockholm School of Economics. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
  2. ↑ "Sweden: historical and statistical handbook". Runeberg. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  3. ↑ "11 Swedish dailies become tabloids". Media Culpa. 11 September 2004. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
  4. ↑ "Newspapers Next Generation" (PDF). Boström Design and Development. 2009. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
  5. 1 2 David Ward (2004). "A Mapping Study of Media Concentration and Ownership in Ten European Countries" (PDF). Dutch Media Authority. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  6. ↑ Mart Ots (2011). "Competition and collaboration between Swedish newspapers – an overview and case study of a restructuring market" (Conference paper). University of Akkureyri. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  7. ↑ "Upsala Nya Tidning". Nationalencyklopedin (in Swedish). Retrieved 25 March 2011.
  8. ↑ Frank Eriksson Barman (2014). "In search of a profitability framework for the local daily newspaper industry. A case study at Göteborgs-Posten" (Report). Gothenburg: Chalmers University of Technology. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
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