Politiken
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | Politiken Fonden (88.4%) Ellen Hørups Fond (4.4%) Others (7.3%) |
| Publisher | JP/Politikens Hus A/S |
| Editor | Bo Lidegaard |
| Founded | October 1, 1884 |
| Political alignment | Social liberal |
| Language | Danish |
| Headquarters | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Circulation | 97,986 [1] |
| Official website | politiken.dk |
Politiken (Danish for "the politic", Danish pronunciation: [poliˈtiɡən]) is a Danish daily broadsheet newspaper, published by JP/Politikens Hus.
The newspaper comes third among Danish newspapers in terms of both number of readers and circulated copies (free dailies excluded).[2]
Politiken has 369,000 readers on weekdays and 494,000 on Sundays (first half of 2010).[3] The number of circulated copies is 98,000 on weekdays and 126,000 on weekends (second half of 2010).[2]
The daily also runs an online newspaper politiken.dk. The site ranks as the eleventh most viewed page among the members of The Association of Danish Interactive Media.[4]
The newspaper also publishes an international edition named Politiken Weekly which compiles the most important stories of a week for Danes living abroad.
Internationally, Politiken is widely respected for its design for which it has won several awards. In 2012 Politiken was declared 'World's Best' along with four other newspapers in a competition carried out by Society for News Design.[5]
The paper's design, format and brand was given as the reason, when a jury made up of journalists, scientists and experts in 2010 awarded Politiken with the European Newspaper Award.[6]
Also, Politiken has been known for its photography. Jan Grarup, winner of several World Press Photo Awards and numerous other prizes, was a staff photographer from 2003 until 2009.[7]
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[edit] History
Dagbladet Politiken (The Daily Politiken) was founded on 1 October 1884 in Copenhagen by Viggo Hørup, Edvard Brandes and Hermann Bing.[8] The foundation came about after Hørup and Brandes had been fired as editors from the newspaper Morgenbladet over political differences. Politiken started with daily circulation of 2,000 copies.
In 1904 Ekstra Bladet was founded as a supplement to Politiken. As of 1 January 1905 Ekstra Bladet became an independent newspaper.
Politiken established its present location in central Copenhagen at The City Hall Square in 1912.
[edit] Wartime reporting
On 28 April 1940, three weeks after the German invasion of Denmark, Politiken ran an editorial in which Winston Churchill was called ‘a dangerous man’. The editorial was written by foreign affairs editor Einard Schou after a conversation in the editor-in-chief's office with chairman of the board and soon-to-be-again Danish foreign minister Erik Scavenius. The aim is thought to have been to please the German occupational force, though no other Danish newspaper took such steps at the time — usually it was enough to keep within the newly-introduced censorship. As an immediate result, thousands of readers cancelled their subscriptions in protest.
[edit] Editorial line
Historically Politiken was connected to the Danish Social Liberal Party (Det Radikale Venstre), but the newspaper declared its political independence in 1970. Interestingly the newspaper is older than the party, making this a rare case of a newspaper starting a party rather than a party starting a newspaper.
In February 2010 the editor in chief at the time Tøger Seidenfaden apologized to anyone who was offended by the newspaper's decision to reprint the Cartoon Drawing by Kurt Westergaard, depicting Muhammed with a bomb in his turban, which was originally published in Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten. Seidenfaden explained that "Politiken has never intended to reprint the Cartoon Drawing as a statement of editorial opinion or values but merely as part of the newspaper's news coverage".[9]
[edit] The Cavling Award
Cavlingprisen ("The Cavling Award") is a Danish honorary award for journalism. It was named after a former reporter and editor-in-chief at Politiken Henrik Cavling.
Cavling award winners at Politiken:
- 1945 Henrik V. Ringsted
- 1962 Jørgen Hartmann-Petersen (Habakuk)
- 1966 Herbert Pundik
- 1968 Erik Nørgaard
- 1974 Anne Wolden-Ræthinge (Ninka)
- 1982 J. B. Holmgaard
- 2006 Miriam Dalsgaard (photographer) and Olav Hergel
[edit] Editors in chief
In some periods there were more than one, which is why some overlap each other.
- 1884-1901: Viggo Hørup
- 1901-1904: Edvard Brandes
- 1905-1927: Henrik Cavling
- 1927-1937: Valdemar Koppel
- 1937-1933: Ove Rode
- 1931-1959: Niels Hasager
- 1941-1963: Poul Graae
- 1946-1959: Hakon Stephensen
- 1959-1963: Svend Tillge-Rasmussen
- 1963-1966: Bo Bramsen
- 1963-1970: Ernst Priemé
- 1963-1971: Harald Engberg
- 1966-1971: Arne Ejbye-Ernst
- 1970-1993: Herbert Pundik
- 1971-1982: Bent Thorndahl
- 1981-1993: Agner Ahm
- 1981-1992: Jørgen Grunnet[10]
- 1993-2011: Tøger Seidenfaden
- 2011-: Bo Lidegaard
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ (Danish) Dansk Oplagskontrol
- ^ a b http://danskedagblade.dk/sektion/branchefakta/oplagstal/oplagstal
- ^ www.gallup.dk/nyhedscenter/statistik/laesertal.aspx
- ^ http://www.fdim.dk/Statistik/internet/toplisten#simple=true;list=site;usertype=total;periodtype=month;year=2011;period=9;realtime=undefined;sorttype=users;dir=desc;s_nr=1;s_publishment=1;s_publishers=0;s_users=1;s_visits=1;s_pageviews=1;s_cookies=0;s_time=0;s_trends=0
- ^ [1]
- ^ http://www.editorial-design.com/10/award10e/
- ^ Af. "Pressefotografforbundet: Jan Grarup forlader Politiken". Pressefotografforbundet.dk. http://www.pressefotografforbundet.dk/index.php?id=11730. Retrieved 2010-02-27.
- ^ (Danish) Politiken
- ^ Politiken.dk
- ^ Politiken, Jørgen Grunnet død, 22 January 2009
- Bjørn Bredal, Politiken mod Politiken - Idékampe 1884-2009, Politikens Forlag, 2009. ISBN 9788756790802.
