Expressen

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| name = {{Lang|sv|Expressen}}

| logo = Expressen wordmark.svg

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| caption = {{Lang|sv|Expressen}} cover (16 December 2011)

| type = Daily newspaper

| format = Tabloid

| owners = Bonnier AB

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| chiefeditor = Klas Granström

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| foundation = {{start date and age|1944|11|16|df=y}}

| political = Independent liberal

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| headquarters = Stockholm

| circulation = 270,900 (2010)

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| ISSN = 1103-923X

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| website = {{URL|https://www.expressen.se/}}

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{{Lang|sv|Expressen}} (The Express) is one of two nationwide evening newspapers in Sweden. Describing itself as independent liberal, {{Lang|sv|Expressen}} was founded in 1944;{{cite book|author=Lennart Weibull|editor1=Henrik Oscarsson|editor2=Stefan Dahlberg|editor3=Lena Wängnerud|title=Stepping Stones|date=2013|publisher=University of Gothenburg|location=Gothenburg|url=http://www.valforskning.pol.gu.se/digitalAssets/1460/1460559_stepping-stones---dahlberg-oscarsson--w--ngnerud--2013----compromised-version.pdf#page=97|access-date=8 January 2015|chapter=What has Happened with the Political Press? Perspectives on the Erosion in Swedish Newspaper Readership|archive-date=8 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150108213639/http://www.valforskning.pol.gu.se/digitalAssets/1460/1460559_stepping-stones---dahlberg-oscarsson--w--ngnerud--2013----compromised-version.pdf#page=97|url-status=dead}} its symbol is a wasp and its slogans are "it stings" or "{{Lang|sv|Expressen}} to your rescue".{{citation needed|date=August 2019}}

The newspaper awards the culture prize Expressens Heffaklump for children's and youth culture.

Overview

The first edition of {{Lang|sv|Expressen}} was published on 16 November 1944.{{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|access-date=31 December 2014}}{{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|access-date=2 March 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150213232250/http://presshistoria.se/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/A-history-of-the-Press-in-Sweden.pdf|archive-date=13 February 2015|df=dmy-all}} A main feature that day was an interview with the crew members of a British bomber who were successful in sinking the German ship Tirpitz. A project of Albert Bonnier Jr., Carl-Adam Nycop, and Ivar Harrie – who was to become the first editor-in-chief – {{Lang|sv|Expressen}} was created in part to push back against "national socialism and related violent ideologies."{{cite web |title=Expressens historia |url=https://www.expressen.se/om-expressen/expressens-historia/ |website=Expressen |date=9 January 2018 |access-date=6 October 2019}}

The paper is owned by the Bonnier Group.{{cite web|author=Robert G. Picard|title=Media Ownership and Concentration in the Nordic Nations|url=http://www.cem.ulaval.ca/pdf/Paysnordiques.pdf|publisher=Le Centre d'études sur les médias|access-date=13 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923201640/http://www.cem.ulaval.ca/pdf/Paysnordiques.pdf|archive-date=23 September 2015|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|title=The press in Sweden|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3553279.stm|access-date=18 November 2014|work=BBC News|date=2004}} As of 2005, the paper had a liberal stance, but it declared its independent leaning in 1995.

Through mergers, the Gothenburg edition of {{Lang|sv|Expressen}} is titled GT (originally Göteborgs-Tidningen) and the Malmö edition is titled Kvällsposten, but the three share half of the content. {{Lang|sv|Expressen}} (with GT and Kvällsposten) maintains a centre-right political profile, describing its editorial position as "independent liberal", while the competitor Aftonbladet is independent social-democratic. Ownership of {{Lang|sv|Expressen}} (and Sweden's largest morning newspaper, {{Lang|sv|Dagens Nyheter}}) is controlled by the Bonnier family, while Aftonbladet is owned jointly by Swedish trade unions and the Norwegian publishing family Schibsted.

= List of editors in chief=

2020– Klas Granström
2019– Klas Granström (acting)
2009–2019 Thomas Mattsson
2002–2008 – Otto Sjöberg
2001–2002 – Joachim Berner
1997–2001 – Staffan Thorsell
1995–1996 – Christina Jutterström
1994–1995 – Olle Wästberg
1991–1993 – Erik Månsson
1977–1991 – Bo Strömstedt
1960–1977 – Per Wrigstad
1944–1960 – Ivar Harrie{{cite web |title=Expressens historia |url=https://www.expressen.se/om-expressen/expressens-historia/ |website=Expressen |date=9 January 2018 |access-date=6 October 2019}}

Circulation

In 1998, the circulation of {{Lang|sv|Expressen}} was 316,000 copies on weekdays and 396,000 copies on Sundays. The paper had a circulation of 334,000 copies in 2001.{{cite news|author=Adam Smith|title=Europe's Top Papers|url=http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/news/164161/|access-date=7 February 2015|work=campaign|date=15 November 2002}} The 2004 circulation of the paper was 335,000 copies. It was 339,400 copies on weekdays in 2005.{{cite web|title=Swedish mass media |url=http://www.swedenabroad.com/SelectImageX/178411/Swedish_mass_media%5B1%5D.pdf |work=Swedish Institute |access-date=18 November 2014 |date=2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130925104744/http://www.swedenabroad.com/SelectImageX/178411/Swedish_mass_media%5B1%5D.pdf |archive-date=25 September 2013}} In 2010, the circulation of the paper had declined to 270,900 copies.{{cite encyclopedia|title=Expressen |encyclopedia= Nationalencyklopedin |language= sv |url= http://www.ne.se/expressen |access-date= 25 March 2011}}

''Kvällsposten''

Kvällsposten, founded in 1948, is – since 1998 – an edition of {{Lang|sv|Expressen}} distributed in the south of Sweden, including Skåne and Blekinge counties. Its editorial offices are in Malmö and the editor in chief is Magnus Ringman.

''GT''

Göteborgs-Tidningen or GT was a tabloid newspaper founded in Gothenburg in 1902. GT was owned by Göteborgs Handels- och Sjöfartstidning, but in 1973 it was acquired by Göteborgs-Posten. In 1998, Bonnier AB bought the newspaper and since then it has become a regional edition of {{Lang|sv|Expressen}} – distributed in the southwest of Sweden, including Västra Götaland County.

GT{{'}}s headquarters are in Gothenburg{{cite web|url=http://www.gt.se/nyheter/1.724124/sa-kontaktar-du-gt|language=sv|title=Så kontaktar du GT|access-date=25 October 2009|work=Göteborgs-Tidningen|archive-date=18 March 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090318150010/http://www.gt.se/nyheter/1.724124/sa-kontaktar-du-gt|url-status=dead}} and its editor in chief is Christer El-Mochantaf.[https://www.expressen.se/gt/christer-el-mochantaf-nychefredaktor-pa-gt/ Expressen-GT] 5 April 2019