Hallandsposten
Headquarters in Halmstad
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatTabloid
Owner(s)Mediebolaget Västkusten, MBVK
Editor-in-chiefHerman Nikolic
Founded1850 (1850)
Political alignmentIndependent liberal
LanguageSwedish
HeadquartersHalmstad, Sweden
Circulation29,900 (2013)
Sister newspapersHallands Nyheter
ISSN1103-9361
WebsiteHallandsposten

Hallandsposten is a Swedish local morning newspaper printed in Halmstad, Sweden. It is the major newspaper of Halmstad, Hylte and Laholm municipalities

History and profile

Hallandsposten was established in 1850.[1] The first issue appeared on 30 July 1850.[2] The paper became daily in 1900, before that it was printed two times a week. One of the editors of the paper was Eric Hägge who served in the post in the early 1940s.[3]

Hallandsposten is part of the Mediebolaget Västkusten, MBVK, which also owns Hallands Nyheter.[2] Hallandsposten was published in broadsheet format until 2007 when it switched to tabloid format.[4] The paper has an independent liberal leaning.[2]

Hallandsposten was the first newspaper in Sweden to make old prints available to the public.[5] The newspaper has digitalised all print editions since 1931.[6] They are scanned, OCR-processed and available to the public.[7][8] Older prints were excluded because original quality was too low to OCR-process.

Circulation

The circulation of Hallandsposten was 32,200 copies in 1996.[1] It was 30,900 copies in 2010.[9] Next year the paper reached 120,000 readers.[2] The paper had a circulation of 29,100 copies in 2012 and 29,000 copies in 2013.[10]

References

  1. 1 2 Western Europe 2003. London; New York: Europa Publications. 2002. p. 628. ISBN 978-1-85743-152-0.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "The art of charging for content". adeprimo. 2013. Archived from the original on 6 February 2015. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  3. ↑ Rikard Westerberg (2020). Socialists at the Gate. Swedish Business and the Defense of Free Enterprise, 1940–1985 (PDF) (PhD thesis). Stockholm School of Economics. p. 72. ISBN 978-91-7731-180-5.
  4. ↑ Ulrika Andersson (2013). "From Broadsheet to Tabloid: Content changes in Swedish newspapers in the light of a shrunken size". Observatorio (OBS) Journal. 7 (4).
  5. ↑ "Hallandsposten är först i Sverige med att erbjuda läsarna ett 80 års digitalt tidningsarkiv". Newsdesk (in Swedish). 3 December 2013. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
  6. ↑ Ahlberg, Ulrika (30 November 2013). "Allt i HP från 1931 fram till i går finns nu i arkivet". hallandsposten.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 23 December 2023.
  7. ↑ Nesser, Johannes (4 December 2013). "Hallandsposten öppnar digitalt arkiv". Journalisten (in Swedish). Retrieved 23 December 2023.
  8. ↑ "Äldre årgångar av Hallandsposten i digitalt arkiv". Föreningen Gamla Halmstad (in Swedish). 22 March 2012. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
  9. ↑ "Hallandsposten". 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 7 March 2015.
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