Sundsvalls Tidning
{{Short description|Local morning newspaper published in Sweden}}
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| caption = Front page dated 3 January 1988
| type = Daily newspaper
| format = Tabloid
| owners = MittMedia
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| foundation = {{start date and age|1841}}
| political = Liberal
| language = Swedish
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| headquarters = Sundsvall
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| publishing_country = Sweden
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| ISSN = 1104-005X
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| website = [http://www.st.nu/ Sundsvalls Tidning]
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Sundsvalls Tidning is a local morning newspaper published in Sundsvall, Sweden. It has been in circulation since 1841.
History and profile
Sundsvalls Tidning was first published in January 1841 with eight pages.{{cite journal|author=Svenåke Boström|title=New designs, new formats|journal=Strategy Report|date=June 2004|volume=3|issue=3|url=http://ideas.typepad.com/WANreport.pdf|page=43}} The paper is based in Sundsvall and is a local morning publication.{{cite book|title=Electronic Services: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications|location=Hershey; New York|year=2010
|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AWO-AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA1445|publisher=IGI Global|isbn=978-1-61520-968-2|page=1445|author1=Carina I. Eriksson|author2=Jesper Svensson|chapter=A User Centered Innovation Approach Identifying Key User Values for the E-Newspaper}} The owner of the paper was a family company with the same name until 1985 when it was acquired by the Gefle Dagblad company{{cite thesis
|author=Jonas Ohlsson|title=The Practice of Newspaper Ownership: Fifty Years of Control and Influence in the Swedish Local Press|year=2012
|publisher=University of Gothenburg|url=http://hdl.handle.net/2077/29101|location=Bohus|isbn=978-91-88212-98-6|hdl=2077/29101|degree=PhD}} which has a liberal stance.{{cite web|author=Jonas Ohlsson|title=From Family Affair to Corporate Subsidiary. The Contradictory Fortune of Sundsvalls Tidning|year=2011|url=http://www.gu.se/english/research/publication?publicationId=144723|work=University of Gothenburg
|access-date=6 February 2015|format=Conference paper abstract}} In 1994 the Gefle Dagblad company became the sole owner of the paper.
The company evolved to MittMedia and owns seventeen newspapers, including Sundsvalls Tidning{{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}} which has a liberal leaning.{{cite web|title=Customers|url=http://shootitlive.com/customers/|work=Shootitlive|access-date=6 February 2015}}
In 2003, Sundsvalls Tidning acquired its local competitor, Dagbladet Nya Samhället.
Sundsvalls Tidning was printed in broadsheet format until Spring 2005 when it switched to tabloid.{{cite web|title=11 Swedish dailies become tabloids|url=http://www.kullin.net/page/251/|work=Media Culpa|access-date=6 February 2015|date=7 September 2004}} The paper has a website, which is updated twice daily, and a tablet e-paper.{{cite web|author1=Åsa Moberg|author2=Martin Johansson|author3=Göran Finnveden|author4=Alex Jonsson|title=Screening environmental life cycle assessment of printed, web based and tablet e-paper newspaper|location=Stockholm|year=2007
|url=http://www.se.twosides.info/includes/files/upload/files/Swedish%20Royal%20Institute%20for%20Technology%20Moberg%20et%20al%202007.pdf|work=KTH Centre for Sustainable Communications}} In May 2013, the paper began to use the duplex serif and sans typefaces designed by Berton Hasbe.{{cite news|title=Duplex for MittMedia, a newspaper group in Sweden|url=https://commercialtype.com/news/updates/duplex|access-date=6 February 2015|work=Commercial Type|date=9 May 2013}}
The paper sold 29,600 copies in 2010. The circulation of Sundsvalls Tidning was 27,300 copies in 2012 and 25,400 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|work=Chalmers University of Technology|access-date=6 March 2015|format=Report|location=Gothenburg|year=2014
|url=http://publications.lib.chalmers.se/records/fulltext/203410/203410.pdf}}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.st.nu/}}
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Category:1841 establishments in Sweden
Category:Mass media in Västernorrland County
Category:Newspapers established in 1841
Category:19th-century establishments in Västernorrland County