Dagen (Swedish newspaper)

Dagen
Founder(s)	Lewi Pethrus
Founded	11 November 1945
Language	Swedish
Country	Sweden
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Dagen or since the early 2000s Nya Dagen is a daily newspaper in Sweden with the expressed purpose of being a Christian voice in the media noise.

History and profile

The first issue of the newspaper was published on 1 November 1945.^[1]^[2] Lewi Pethrus, the leader of the pentecostal movement in Sweden was its founder^[2] and its chief editor until his death in 1974. During this period the paper was the organ of pentecostal movement in Sweden.^[1] This lasted until the 1990s when the paper expanded its profile and changed its management structure due to financial problems.^[1]

Nya Dagen

In the early 2000s the paper was relaunched under the name of Nya Dagen (meaning "The New Day" in English).^[1] The circulation of Nya Dagen was 18,400 copies in 2006.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Olof Brunninge (2007). "Identity Dynamics in a Christian Newspaper: The Case of Dagen". NordMedia. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
^ ^a ^b Karl Erik Gustafsson; Per Rydén (2010). A History of the Press in Sweden (PDF). Gothenburg: Nordicom. ISBN 978-91-86523-08-4. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 February 2015. Retrieved 2 March 2015.

External links

Dagen.se - with on-line content

[nmed-1] Olof Brunninge (2007). "Identity Dynamics in a Christian Newspaper: The Case of Dagen". NordMedia. Retrieved 6 February 2015.

[keg-2] Karl Erik Gustafsson; Per Rydén (2010). A History of the Press in Sweden (PDF). Gothenburg: Nordicom. ISBN 978-91-86523-08-4. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 February 2015. Retrieved 2 March 2015.

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