Det fri Aktuelt

The newspaper was established under the name of Socialisten (Danish: the Socialist) by the cofounder of the Social Democratic party, Louis Pio, in 1871.{{cite book|editor=Bernard A. Cook|title=Europe Since 1945: An Encyclopedia|volume=1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ox_gXq2jpdYC&pg=PA302|year=2001|publisher=Garland Publishing, Inc.|isbn=978-0-8153-4057-7|page=302|location=New York; London}}{{cite book|author=Alastair H. Thomas|title=The A to Z of Denmark|year=2010

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MKH4JuPT6boC&pg=PA33|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-7205-9|page=33|location=Lanham, MD}} Its first issue appeared on 22 July that year.{{cite web|title=Mediestream AvisID oversigt - København|publisher=Det KGL Bibliotek

|url=https://www.kb.dk/find-materiale/tjenester/mediestream/avisid-oversigt|access-date=8 July 2023|language=da}} The paper was the organ of the Social Democratic party.{{cite web|author1=Jose L. Alvarez|author2=Carmelo Mazza|author3=Jordi Mur|title=The management publishing industry in Europe|url=http://www.iese.edu/research/pdfs/OP-99-04-E.pdf|work=University of Navarra|access-date=27 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100630042406/http://www.iese.edu/research/pdfs/OP-99-04-E.pdf|format=Occasional Paper No:99/4

|date=October 1999|archive-date=30 June 2010}} Its headquarters was in Copenhagen.{{cite news|author=Jan M. Olsen|title=Neo-Nazi Migration to Denmark From Germany Stirs Anger, Protests|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-11-06-mn-59147-story.html|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=2 January 2015|location=Kollund|date=6 November 1994}} In the mid-1970s, the owner of the paper was A/S FagbevægeIsens Presse, a limited liability company. Then It became owned by the trade union movement until 1987, when it declared its independence and freedom. The paper was published by the Labour Movement Press during its final years.

The paper was published under different names. The original name, Socialisten, was changed into Socialdemokraten in 1874. It was used until 1959, when it began to be published under the name of Aktuelt.{{cite book|author=Bent Jensen|title=The Unemployed in the Danish Newspaper Debate from the 1840s to the 1990s|year=2008|publisher=University Press of Southern Denmark

|location=Odense|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dP1wPgAACAAJ|isbn=978-87-7674-374-1}} In 1987, the paper was renamed as Det fri Aktuelt.

Aktuelt had a Sunday edition which was published in tabloid format from 1966.{{cite book|author=Å. Erhardtsen|year=1978

|title=Evolution of Concentration and Competition in the Danish Newspaper and Magazine Sector|publisher=Commission of the European Communities

|isbn=978-92-825-0463-5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rCc-AAAAMAAJ}} In 1973, the format of the paper was also changed to tabloid.

Det fri Aktuelt ceased publication in April 2001.{{cite book|editor=Georgios Terzis|title=European Media Governance: National and Regional Dimensions|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=68nbtqst-CsC&pg=PA84|year=2007|publisher=Intellect Books|isbn=978-1-84150-192-5|page=84|chapter=The Danish Media Landscape|author1=Per Jauert|author2=Henrik Søndergaard|location=Bristol; Chicago}}{{cite book|author1=Henrik Søndergaard|author2=Rasmus Helles|title=Media policies and regulatory practices in a selected set of European countries, the EU and the Council of Europe|year=2010|publisher=The Mediadem Consortium|location=Athens|editor=Federica Casarosa|chapter-url=https://cadmus.eui.eu/handle/1814/40076|chapter=The case of Denmark|page=378}}

Being an official media outlet of the Social Democratic party the paper had a social democrat political leaning.{{cite journal|author=Hans Rask Jensen|title=Staging Political Consumption|journal=Asia Pacific Advances in Consumer Research|year=2001|volume=4

|url=http://www.acrwebsite.org/search/view-conference-proceedings.aspx?Id=11363}} At the end of the 1880s it discouraged the immigration of Swede workers to Denmark.{{cite CiteSeerX|author=Bent Jensen|title=Foreigners in the Danish newspaper debate from the 1870s to the 1990s|year=2001|citeseerx=10.1.1.694.9410}} However, its attitude towards them totally changed in the 1890s, and it supported the right of poor Swede workers to obtain Danish citizenship. The paper followed the decisions taken in the Second International and adopted a positive approach towards labor immigration to the country until World War I. It also supported the immigration of the Russian socialist refugees and Jews to the country from 1905 to the end of World War I. The paper suggested in 1975 that East Germany was one of the places for Danish families to visit during the summer holidays.{{cite book|author=Thomas Wegener Friis|display-authors=et. al.|editor1=Michael Scholz|editor2=Robert Bohn|year=2012

|editor3=Carina Johansson|title=The image of the Baltic: a Festschrift for Nils Blomkvist|publisher=Gotland University Press|location=Visby |isbn=978-91-86343-06-4|page=128|chapter=The Face of the Enemy? The Image of the GDR in the Danish Media|volume=10|chapter-url=http://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?aq=%5B%5B%5D%5D&aq2=%5B%5B%5D%5D&sf=all&aqe=%5B%5D&af=%5B%5D&searchType=SIMPLE&sortOrder=author_sort_asc&onlyFullText=false&noOfRows=50&language=sv&pid=diva2%3A507221&dswid=5243}}

Emil Wiinblad was appointed editor-in-chief of the paper in 1881.{{cite web|title=Factsheet Denmark|url=http://dipd.dk/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/factsheet_Mass_Media.pdf|work=Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark|access-date=9 May 2015|date=January 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004214227/https://dipd.dk/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/factsheet_Mass_Media.pdf|archive-date=4 October 2013

|url-status=dead}} At the beginning of the 1930s the editor of the paper was H. P. Sørensen.{{cite book|author=Kasper Braskén

|editor1=Kasper Braskén|year=2021|editor2=Nigel Copsey|editor3=David Featherstone|title=Anti-Fascism in a Global Perspective|page=98

|publisher=Routledge|location=London|isbn=978-1-138-35218-6|doi=10.4324/9780429058356|chapter-url=https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429058356

|chapter='Make Scandinavia a bulwark against fascism!': Hitler's seizure of power and the transnational anti-fascist movement in the Nordic countries|s2cid=225309963}} Carsten Jensen was among its contributors.{{cite news|title=The World Today|access-date=2 January 2015

|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/twt_euro/euro_jensen.shtml|work=BBC}}{{cite web|title=Jensen, Carsten|work=Baltic Sea Library|url=http://www.balticsealibrary.de/index.php?option=com_flexicontent&view=items&cid=96:danish&id=190:jensen-carsten|url-status=dead

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150102105523/http://www.balticsealibrary.de/index.php?option=com_flexicontent&view=items&cid=96:danish&id=190:jensen-carsten|access-date=2 January 2015|archive-date=2 January 2015}} As of 1997 Lisbeth Knudsen was the editor-in-chief.{{cite web|title=Information Society: Final Report of the High Level Group of Experts

|url=http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-97-588_en.htm?locale=FR|work=European Commission|access-date=2 January 2015|location=Brussels|date=1 July 1997}}

In 1901 the circulation of the paper was 42,000 copies. From 1911 to the 1950s the paper had a fixed circulation of 55,000 copies. During the last six months of 1957 its circulation was 39,445 copies on weekdays.{{cite journal|author=Britt-Mari Persson Blegvad|title=Newspapers and Rock and Roll Riots in Copenhagen|journal=Acta Sociologica|year=1964|volume=7|issue=3|pages=151–178

|doi=10.1177/000169936400700302|jstor=4193580|s2cid=144443862 }} The paper sold 41,000 copies in 1963. Its circulation was 39,400 copies during the first half of 1966.{{cite web|title=Daily Newspapers 1966|work=Danmarks Statistik|access-date=12 April 2015

|url=http://www.dst.dk/pukora/epub/upload/15823/underv2.pdf}} The paper sold 53,000 copies in 1973 and 54,600 copies in 1983.

The circulation of Det fri Aktuelt was 47,000 copies in 1991 and 45,000 copies in 1992.{{cite web|title=Culture

|url=http://www.dst.dk/pukora/epub/upload/3149/cult.pdf|work=Danmarks Statistik|access-date=9 May 2015|archive-date=9 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150509120926/http://www.dst.dk/pukora/epub/upload/3149/cult.pdf}} The paper sold 41,300 copies in 1993. Its circulation was 40,000 copies in 1994, 39,000 copies in 1995 and 37,000 copies in 1996. It further fell to 36,000 copies in 1997, to 30,000 copies in 1998 and to 28,000 copies in 1999. 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.{{cite web|title=The 20 largest daily newspapers 2000|url=http://www.dst.dk/pukora/epub/upload/2179/headword/eng/108.pdf|work=Danmarks Statistik|access-date=15 February 2015}}

The photo archive of the paper is kept in Arbejdermuseet (Danish: the Workers' Museum).{{cite web|title=Arbejdermuseet Museum and the Labour Movement Library and Archives|url=http://www.europeana-photography.eu/index.php?en/74/arbejdermuseet-museum-and-the-labour-movement-library-and-archives|work=Europeana|access-date=2 January 2015|date=21 December 2012}}{{cite web|title=The Workers' Museum: Home to History|url=http://www.digitalmeetsculture.net/article/the-workers-museum-home-to-history/|work=Digital Meets Culture|access-date=2 January 2015}}

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