Östgöta Correspondenten

Östgöta Correspondenten was first published in Linköping in 1838.{{cite book|author1=Karl Erik Gustafsson|author2=Per Rydén|title=A History of the Press in Sweden|date=2010|publisher=Nordicom|location=Gothenburg|isbn=978-91-86523-08-4|url=http://presshistoria.se/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/A-history-of-the-Press-in-Sweden.pdf|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150213232250/http://presshistoria.se/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/A-history-of-the-Press-in-Sweden.pdf|archivedate=13 February 2015|df=dmy-all}}{{cite web|title=Sweden: historical and statistical handbook|url=https://runeberg.org/sweden14/1/0514.html|work=Runeberg|access-date=11 February 2015}} The founder of the paper was Henrik Bernhard Palmær. Corren was controlled by the Ridderstad family for 168 years, but was sold to Norrköpings Tidningar AB in 2008{{cite web|author=Mart Ots|title=Competition and collaboration between Swedish newspapers – an overview and case study of a restructuring market|url=http://english.unak.is/static/files/Ots_Mart.pdf|work=University of Akkureyri|accessdate=6 February 2015|format=Conference paper|date=2011}} for SEK 700 million.[http://www.corren.se/ekonomi/?articleId=4153722 Based on an article in Swedish] The publisher of the paper is Correspondenten i Linköping AB.{{cite web|author=David Ward|title=A Mapping Study of Media Concentration and Ownership in Ten European Countries|url=http://77.87.161.246/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/A-Mapping-Study-of-Media-Concentration-and-Ownership-in-Ten-European-Countries.pdf|work=Dutch Media Authority|accessdate=11 February 2015|year=2004}}

The paper was published in broadsheet format until 1 February 2005 when it switched to tabloid format.{{cite news|title=11 Swedish dailies become tabloids|url=http://www.kullin.net/2004/09/11-swedish-dailies-become-tabloids/|accessdate=8 April 2015|work=Media Culpa|date=11 September 2004}}{{cite web|title=Newspapers Next Generation|url=http://bdu.nu/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Newspaper-next-generation-2009.pdf|date=2009|work=Boström Design and Development|accessdate=12 February 2015}} The stated position of the editorial page is liberal.{{cite book|title=Western Europe 2003|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M9QYndAPmuQC&pg=PA628|date=30 November 2002|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-1-85743-152-0|page=628}}

In 1998 the circulation of Östgöta Correspondenten was 67,000 copies.{{cite journal|author1=Stig Hadenius|author2=Lennart Weibull|title=The Swedish Newspaper System in the Late 1990s. Tradition and Transition|journal=Nordicom Review|date=1999|volume=1|issue=1

|url=http://www.nordicom.gu.se/sites/default/files/kapitel-pdf/31_hadenius-weibull.pdf}} The paper had a circulation of 67,200 copies in 2000 and 63,000 copies in 2003{{cite web|title=World Press Trends|url=http://www.wan-press.org/ecrire/upload/wpt2004.pdf|work=World Association of Newspapers|accessdate=8 February 2015|location=Paris|date=2004}} and 62,000 copies in 2004.{{cite web|title=Media pluralism in the Member States of the European Union|url=http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/media_taskforce/doc/pluralism/media_pluralism_swp_en.pdf|work=Commission of the European Communities|accessdate=27 March 2015|location=Brussels|date=16 January 2007}} The circulation of the paper was 48,900 copies in 2012 and 39,900 copies in 2019.{{cite web|author=Frank Eriksson Barman|title=In search of a profitability framework for the local daily newspaper industry. A case study at Göteborgs-Posten|url=http://publications.lib.chalmers.se/records/fulltext/203410/203410.pdf|work=Chalmers University of Technology|accessdate=6 March 2015|location=Gothenburg|format=Report|date=2014}}

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