Det fri Aktuelt

Det fri Aktuelt was a Danish language daily newspaper published in Copenhagen, Denmark, between 1871 and 2001. It was the first socialist[1] and the earliest newspaper published by a labor union in the world.[2] In addition, it was the last leading social democrat newspaper in Denmark.[3]

Det fri Aktuelt
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatTabloid
Founder(s)Louis Pio
Founded1871
Political alignmentSocial democrat
LanguageDanish
Ceased publicationApril 2001
HeadquartersCopenhagen

History and profile

The newspaper was established under the name of Socialisten (meaning the Socialist in English)[4] by the cofounder of the Social Democratic party, Louis Pio, in 1871.[5][6] The paper was the organ of the Social Democratic party.[5][7] Its headquarters was in Copenhagen.[8] In the mid-1970s the owner of the paper was A/S FagbevægeIsens Presse, a limited liability company.[9] Then It became owned by the trade union movement until 1987 when it declared its independency and freedom.[6] The paper was published by the Labour Movement Press during its final years.[7]

The paper was published under different names.[5] The original name, Socialisten, was changed into Socialdemokraten in 1874.[4] It was used until 1959 when it began to be published under the name of Aktuelt.[5][10] In 1987 the paper was renamed as Det fri Aktuelt.[5]

Being an official media outlet of the Social Democratic party the paper had a social democrat political leaning.[9][11] In 1881 Emil Wiinblad was appointed editor-in-chief of the paper.[12] At the end of the 1880s it discouraged the immigration of Swede workers to Denmark.[4] However, its attitude towards them totally changed in the 1890s and it supported the right of poor Swede workers to obtain Danish citizenship.[4] 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.[4] It also supported the immigration of the Russian socialist refugees and Jews to the country from 1905 to the end of World War I.[4]

The Sunday edition of Aktuelt began to be published in tabloid format in 1966.[9] In 1973 the format of the paper was also changed to tabloid.[5] Carsten Jensen was among the contributors.[13][14] As of 1997 Lisbeth Knudsen was the editor-in-chief.[15]

Det fri Aktuelt ceased publication in April 2001.[2][4][16]

The photo archive of the paper is kept in Arbejdermuseet (meaning the Workers' Museum in English).[17][18]

Circulation

In 1901 the circulation of the paper was 42,000 copies.[1] From 1911 to the 1950s the paper had a fixed circulation of 55,000 copies.[5] During the last six months of 1957 its circulation was 39,445 copies on weekdays.[19] The circulation of the paper was 41,000 copies in 1963.[4] During the first half of 1966 the paper sold 39,400 copies.[20] Its circulation was 53,000 copies in 1973 and 54,600 copies in 1983.[4]

The circulation of Det fri Aktuelt was 47,000 copies in 1991 and 45,000 copies in 1992.[21] The paper sold 41,300 copies in 1993.[4] Its circulation was 40,000 copies in 1994, 39,000 copies in 1995 and 37,000 copies in 1996.[21] It further fell to 36,000 copies in 1997, to 30,000 copies in 1998 and to 28,000 copies in 1999.[21] 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.[21][22]

See also
  • List of Danish newspapers

References
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  2. Georgios Terzis, ed. (2007). European Media Governance: National and Regional Dimensions. Intellect Books. p. 84. ISBN 978-1-84150-192-5. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  3. Raymond Kuhn; Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, eds. (7 November 2013). Political Journalism in Transition: Western Europe in a Comparative Perspective. I.B.Tauris. p. 96. ISBN 978-0-85773-479-2. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  4. Bent Jensen (2001). "Foreigners in the Danish newspaper debate from the 1870s to the 1990s" (PDF). The Rockwool Foundation Research Unit. Copenhagen. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 January 2015. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  5. Bernard A. Cook, ed. (2001). Europe Since 1945: An Encyclopedia. Taylor & Francis. p. 302. ISBN 978-0-8153-4057-7. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  6. Alastair H. Thomas (10 May 2010). The A to Z of Denmark. Scarecrow Press. p. 33. ISBN 978-0-8108-7205-9. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  7. Jose L. Alvarez; Carmelo Mazza; Jordi Mur (October 1999). "The management publishing industry in Europe" (PDF). University of Navarra. Archived from the original (Occasional Paper No:99/4) on 30 June 2010. Retrieved 27 April 2015.
  8. Jan M. Olsen (6 November 1994). "Neo-Nazi Migration to Denmark From Germany Stirs Anger, Protests". Los Angeles Times. Kollund. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  9. Aage Erhardtsen (May 1978). "Evolution of concentration and competition in the Danish newspaper and magazine sector" (Report). Commission of the European Communities. Brussels. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  10. Bent Jensen (2008). The Unemployed in the Danish Newspaper Debate from the 1840s to the 1990s (PDF). Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 January 2015. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
  11. Hans Rask Jensen (2001). "Staging Political Consumption". Asia Pacific Advances in Consumer Research. 4. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  12. "Factsheet Denmark" (PDF). Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark. January 2007. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
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  14. "Jensen, Carsten". Baltic Sea Library. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  15. "Information Society: Final Report of the High Level Group of Experts". European Commission. Brussels. 1 July 1997. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  16. Henrik Søndergaard; Rasmus Helles (29 October 2010). "The case of Denmark" (PDF). Media policies and regulatory practices in a selected set of European countries, the EU and the Council of Europe. Athens: The Mediadem Consortium. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  17. "Arbejdermuseet Museum and the Labour Movement Library and Archives". Europeana. 21 December 2012. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  18. "The Workers' Museum: Home to History". Digital Meets Culture. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  19. Britt-Mari Persson Blegvad (1964). "Newspapers and Rock and Roll Riots in Copenhagen". Acta Sociologica. 7 (3): 151–178. JSTOR 4193580.
  20. "Daily Newspapers 1966" (PDF). Danmarks Statistik. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
  21. "Culture" (PDF). Danmarks Statistik. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 May 2015. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
  22. "The 20 largest daily newspapers 2000" (PDF). Danmarks Statistik. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
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