Politiken
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Politiken Fonden (88.4%) Ellen Hørups Fond (4.4%) Others (7.3%) |
| Publisher | JP/Politikens Hus A/S |
| Editor | Tøger Seidenfaden |
| Founded | October 1, 1884 |
| Political alignment | Social liberal |
| Language | Danish |
| Headquarters | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Circulation | 107,788 [1] |
| Website | politiken.dk |
Politiken (Danish pronunciation: [pʰoliˈtˢiɡən]) is a Danish daily broadsheet newspaper, published by JP/Politikens Hus.
Politiken comes second among Danish newspapers in terms of circulated copies, 107,788 (second half of 2008).[3] The daily edition of the newspaper has 450,000 readers, 585,000 on Sundays[4], also putting it in second place (free dailies excluded). Politiken Weekly is the international edition of Politiken, compiling the most important stories of a week for Danes living abroad.
Politiken relaunched itself on its birthday, October 1, 2006, keeping the broadsheet format but splitting most pages horizontally into "overview" (the upper 20-25 percent of a broadsheet page) and "depth" (rest of the page). The depth part provides more analytical, investigative and feature-like articles that tend to be longer and more carefully presented than traditional newspaper articles. The overview part is produced by the papers online desk and summarizes events of the latest 24 hours. The idea is to present a more distinctive and sharper selection of stories without losing the broad coverage of a traditional paper.
Internationally, Politiken is mostly renowned for its photography. Jan Grarup, winner of several World Press Photo Awards and numerous other prizes, is a staff photographer, and several other photographers of the paper have won international acclaim in the last ten years.
History
Dagbladet Politiken (The Daily Politiken) was founded October 1, 1884 in Copenhagen by Viggo Hørup, Edvard Brandes and Hermann Bing[5]. It had an original daily circulation of 2,000 copies. The paper established its present location in central Copenhagen at Rådhuspladsen (City Hall Square) in 1912.
Politiken, and especially its editor-in-chief Tøger Seidenfaden ,a member of The Trilateral Commission [1] and Bilderberg-atendee since 1995, are determined supporters of a closer European Union.