Göteborgs-Posten

Göteborgs-Posten (lit. "The Gothenburg Post"), abbreviated GP, is a major Swedish language daily newspaper published in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Göteborgs-Posten
Göteborgs-Posten
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatCompact
Owner(s)Stampen AB
EditorChristofer Ahlqvist
Founded1813
Political alignmentLiberal
LanguageSwedish
HeadquartersPolhemsplatsen 5,
Gothenburg
Circulation173,700 (2013)
ISSN1103-9345
Websitewww.gp.se

History and profile

Göteborgs-Posten was first published in 1813,[1] but ceased publication in 1822. It re-appeared in 1850. Publication seven days a week began in 1939. The paper is owned and published by a family company, Stampen, a subsidiary of Hjörne group.[2][3] It changed its format from the classic broadsheet to compact on 5 October 2004.[4][5]

Göteborgs-Posten is published in Gothenburg,[5] with containing coverage of local, regional, national and international issues. It is chiefly distributed in western Götaland. The stated position of the editorial page is liberal (which in Sweden means center-right).[2]

Circulation

According to its publisher, seven out of ten Gothenburgers read Göteborgs-Posten every day.[6] In 1998 the circulation of the paper was 258,000 copies on weekdays and 286,000 copies on Sundays.[7] The paper had a circulation of 245,900 copies on weekdays in 2005.[2] It reached about 600,000 people every day with a circulation of 245,700 in 2006.[8] Its 2010 circulation was 227,200 copies.[9] The paper had a circulation of 189,400 copies in 2012 and 173,700 copies in 2013.[10]

GP-building
GP-building

See also

References
  1. "Göteborgs-Posten". VoxEurop. Retrieved 18 January 2015.
  2. "Swedish mass media" (PDF). Swedish Institute. 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 October 2012. Retrieved 18 November 2014.
  3. Eva Harrie (2009). "The Nordic Media Market" (PDF). Göteborg: Nordicom, University of Gothenburg. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
  4. "The press in Sweden". BBC News. 2004. Retrieved 18 November 2014.
  5. "Shaping the Future of the Newspaper" (PDF). Strategy Report. 4 (5). June 2005. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 December 2005. Retrieved 5 February 2015.
  6. Stampen - Tidningar Archived 21 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  7. Stig Hadenius; Lennart Weibull (1999). "The Swedish Newspaper System in the Late 1990s. Tradition and Transition" (PDF). Nordicom Review. 1 (1). Retrieved 31 December 2014.
  8. GP
  9. "Göteborgs-Posten". Nationalencyklopedin (in Swedish). Retrieved 25 March 2011.
  10. 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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