Det fri Aktuelt

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Det fri Aktuelt
TypeDaily newspaper
Format
Media of Denmark
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    • Det fri Aktuelt was a daily newspaper published in

    social democrat newspaper in Denmark.[3]

    History and profile

    The newspaper was established under the name of Socialisten (Danish: the Socialist)[4] by the cofounder of the Social Democratic party, Louis Pio, in 1871.[5][6] Its first issue appeared on 22 July that year.[7] The paper was the organ of the Social Democratic party.[5][8] Its headquarters was in Copenhagen.[9] In the mid-1970s, the owner of the paper was A/S FagbevægeIsens Presse, a limited liability company.[10] Then It became owned by the trade union movement until 1987, when it declared its independence and freedom.[6] The paper was published by the Labour Movement Press during its final years.[8]

    The paper was published under different names.[5] The original name, Socialisten, was changed into Socialdemokraten in 1874.[4] It was used until 1959, when it began to be published under the name of Aktuelt.[5][11] In 1987, the paper was renamed as Det fri Aktuelt.[5]

    Aktuelt had a Sunday edition which was published in

    tabloid format from 1966.[10] In 1973, the format of the paper was also changed to tabloid.[5]

    Det fri Aktuelt ceased publication in April 2001.[2][4][12]

    Political stance and contributors

    Being an official media outlet of the Social Democratic party the paper had a social democrat political leaning.

    refugees and Jews to the country from 1905 to the end of World War I.[4] The paper suggested in 1975 that East Germany was one of the places for Danish families to visit during the summer holidays.[14]

    Emil Wiinblad was appointed editor-in-chief of the paper in 1881.[15] At the beginning of the 1930s the editor of the paper was H. P. Sørensen.[16] Carsten Jensen was among its contributors.[17][18] As of 1997 Lisbeth Knudsen was the editor-in-chief.[19]

    Circulation

    In 1901 the circulation of the paper was 42,000 copies.[1] From 1911 to the 1950s the paper had a fixed circulation of 55,000 copies.[5] During the last six months of 1957 its circulation was 39,445 copies on weekdays.[20] The paper sold 41,000 copies in 1963.[4] Its circulation was 39,400 copies during the first half of 1966.[21] The paper sold 53,000 copies in 1973 and 54,600 copies in 1983.[4]

    The circulation of Det fri Aktuelt was 47,000 copies in 1991 and 45,000 copies in 1992.[22] The paper sold 41,300 copies in 1993.[4] Its circulation was 40,000 copies in 1994, 39,000 copies in 1995 and 37,000 copies in 1996.[22] It further fell to 36,000 copies in 1997, to 30,000 copies in 1998 and to 28,000 copies in 1999.[22] Its circulation was 26,000 copies both in the first quarter of 2000 and in 2000 as a whole, making it one of the top 20 newspapers in the country.[22][23]

    Legacy

    The photo archive of the paper is kept in

    Arbejdermuseet (Danish: the Workers' Museum).[24][25]

    References

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    7. ^ "Mediestream AvisID oversigt - København" (in Danish). Det KGL Bibliotek. Retrieved 8 July 2023.
    8. ^ a b Jose L. Alvarez; Carmelo Mazza; Jordi Mur (October 1999). "The management publishing industry in Europe" (PDF). University of Navarra. Archived from the original (Occasional Paper No:99/4) on 30 June 2010. Retrieved 27 April 2015.
    9. ^ Jan M. Olsen (6 November 1994). "Neo-Nazi Migration to Denmark From Germany Stirs Anger, Protests". Los Angeles Times. Kollund. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
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    12. ^ Henrik Søndergaard; Rasmus Helles (2010). "The case of Denmark". In Federica Casarosa (ed.). Media policies and regulatory practices in a selected set of European countries, the EU and the Council of Europe. Athens: The Mediadem Consortium. p. 378.
    13. ^ Hans Rask Jensen (2001). "Staging Political Consumption". Asia Pacific Advances in Consumer Research. 4.
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    15. ^ "Factsheet Denmark" (PDF). Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark. January 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 October 2013. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
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    17. ^ "The World Today". BBC. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
    18. ^ "Jensen, Carsten". Baltic Sea Library. Archived from the original on 2 January 2015. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
    19. ^ "Information Society: Final Report of the High Level Group of Experts". European Commission. Brussels. 1 July 1997. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
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    21. ^ "Daily Newspapers 1966" (PDF). Danmarks Statistik. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
    22. ^ a b c d "Culture" (PDF). Danmarks Statistik. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 May 2015. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
    23. ^ "The 20 largest daily newspapers 2000" (PDF). Danmarks Statistik. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
    24. ^ "Arbejdermuseet Museum and the Labour Movement Library and Archives". Europeana. 21 December 2012. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
    25. ^ "The Workers' Museum: Home to History". Digital Meets Culture. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
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