Barometern
{{Short description|Swedish local newspaper}}
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| image = Barometern Kalmar.jpg
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| format = Tabloid
| owners = Gota Media
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| foundation = {{start date and age|1841}}
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| language = Swedish
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| headquarters = Kalmar
| publishing_country = Sweden
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| website = [http://www.barometern.se/ Barometern OT]
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{{Conservatism in Sweden|Media}}
Barometern OT is a local newspaper published in Kalmar, Sweden. It is the leading paper in its circulation area.{{cite thesis|author=Anna Timchenko|title=The Image of Ethnic Conationals abroad|url=https://trepo.tuni.fi/handle/10024/83044|location=University of Tampere|date=November 2011|degree=MA|hdl=10024/83044}}
History and profile
Barometern was established in 1841.{{cite journal|author=Eric C. Bellquist|title=Emergency Regulations and the Press in Sweden|journal=Journalism Quarterly|year=1941|volume=18|issue=4|page=356|doi=10.1177/107769904101800402|s2cid=151984104 }} The paper was published by the Tidningen Barometerns AB from 1903 to 1989. Then it was published by a stock corporation, Barometern-OT AB, between 1990 and 2002.{{cite book|author=Jonas Ohlsson|title=The Practice of Newspaper Ownership|date=2012|publisher=University of Gothenburg|location=Bohus|isbn=978-91-88212-98-6|url=http://www.som.gu.se/digitalAssets/1503/1503041_the-practice-of-newspaper-ownership---jonas-ohlsson.pdf|archive-date=11 February 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150211194607/http://www.som.gu.se/digitalAssets/1503/1503041_the-practice-of-newspaper-ownership---jonas-ohlsson.pdf}} In 2003 the paper merged with three newspapers, namely Blekinge Läns Tidning, Borås Tidning and Smålandsposten, to create the joint holding company Gota Media.{{cite journal|author=Mart Ots|title=Competition, Collaboration and Cooperation: Swedish Provincial Newspaper Markets In Transition|journal=Journal of Media Business Studies|volume=9|issue=2|year=2012|doi=10.1080/16522354.2012.11073543|page=48}} The company is the owner of Barometern OT{{cite web|title=Gota Media AB|url=http://www.g2mi.com/company_description.php?id=2350&name=Gota-Media-AB|work=G2Mi|access-date=11 February 2015|archive-date=11 February 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150211214618/http://www.g2mi.com/company_description.php?id=2350&name=Gota-Media-AB}} which is based in Kalmar.{{cite book|title=The Rotarian|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mjUEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA23|date=July 1971|publisher=Rotary International|page=23|issn=0035-838X}} Since 1963 another local paper, Oskarshamns-Tidningen, has been published as an edition of the paper.
Barometern OT has been published in tabloid format since 24 April 2001.{{cite journal|author=Ole Munk|title=Redefining the whole process|journal=Design Journal|date=Spring 2002|issue=82|url=http://www.ribmunk.dk/downloads/design.pdf}} Toge Forsberg served as the editor-in-chief of the paper which is published six times per week.
Circulation
In 2010 Barometern OT sold 42,300 copies. The circulation of the paper was 41,000 copies in 2012 and 40,300 copies in 2013.{{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|publisher=Chalmers University of Technology
|access-date=7 March 2015|location=Gothenburg|format=Report|year=2014}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.barometern.se/ Official website]
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Category:1841 establishments in Sweden
Category:Daily newspapers published in Sweden
Category:Newspapers established in 1841