Vecko-Journalen
Former editorsBörge Bengtsson
FrequencyWeekly
PublisherÅhlén & Åkerlunds
FounderErik Åkerlund
Founded1910 (1910)
Final issue1963
CountrySweden
Based inStockholm
LanguageSwedish

Vecko-Journalen (Swedish: Weekly Record) was a weekly magazine published under various titles from 1910 to 2002.[1]

History and profile

Vecko-Journalen was founded by Erik Åkerlund in 1910. The same year he also established the publishing company Åhlén & Åkerlunds.[2] The company was acquired by the Bonnier Group in 1929.[3] The magazine was based in Stockholm and was published on a weekly basis.[4] Among many others, Börge Bengtsson served as the editor-in-chief of the magazine.[5]

Vecko-Journalen frequently featured life of Carl Emil Pettersson, a Swedish adventurer, in the 1930s.[6] It was one of the Swedish publications which contained news materials provided by the Swedish Intelligence Agency during World War II.[7]

It was published weekly from 1910 to 1963 when it merged with the magazine Idun and took the double-barrelled name Idun-Veckojournalen. The merged magazine continued to be published weekly until 1980, when falling circulation figures forced it to a monthly cycle, and it was renamed Månadsjournalen (Swedish: Monthly Record). It ceased publication in 2002.

References

  1. Lina Sturfelt (2008). "Eldens återsken. Första världskriget i svensk föreställningsvärld". Lund University. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
  2. Birgitta Steene (1998). "The Swedish Image of America". In Poul Houe; Sven Hakon Rossel (eds.). Images of America in Scandinavia. Amsterdam; Atlanta, GA: Rodopi. p. 175. ISBN 90-420-0611-0.
  3. "Historik". Bonnier Magazines & Brands (in Swedish). Retrieved 14 September 2023.
  4. Dirk Gindt (March 2013). "Transatlantic Translations and Transactions: Lars Schmidt and the Implementation of Postwar American Theatre in Europe". Theatre Journal. 65 (1): 19–37. doi:10.1353/tj.2013.0015. JSTOR 41819820. S2CID 162294032.
  5. "Tidningsmakaren Gunny Widell avliden". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). 23 May 2014. Retrieved 14 January 2017.
  6. Anette Nyqvist (2018). "The Travelling Story of Pettersson in the Pacific". In Stefan Helgesson; et al. (eds.). World Literatures. Exploring the Cosmopolitan-Vernacular Exchange. Stockholm: Stockholm University Press. p. 267. ISBN 978-91-7635-076-8.
  7. Emil Stjernholm (2023). "A Rain of Propaganda: The Media Production of the Office of War Information in Stockholm, 1942–1945". In Fredrik Norén; Emil Stjernholm; C. Claire Thomson (eds.). Nordic Media Histories of Propaganda and Persuasion. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 124. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-05171-5_6. ISBN 978-3-031-05171-5.
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