''DAGEN'' (commonly written ''Dagen'') was a
Danish newspaper
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which published for only 41 issues, from 22 October 2002 to 6 December 2002. ''DAGEN'' was the first new newspaper in almost 50 years in Denmark.
History and profile
On 6 December 2002, ''Dagen'' had a debt of 34.9
million
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DKK, and
bankrupt
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cy was declared on 13 December 2002.
Peter Linck was the creator of the newspaper, and the
editor
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was
Kresten Schultz Jørgensen.
The newspaper had more media coverage than it itself was able to cover about its bankruptcy. The coverage from other
media
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** Advertising media, various media, content, buying and placement for advertising
** Interactive media, media that is inter ...
was intense. Many used the newspaper's own
motto
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s for jokes about its bankruptcy, a famous one was "''til folk som kan læse, fra folk som ikke kan regne''"
(
Danish: "''for people who can read, from people who can't count''") as a reference to the overwhelming bankruptcy it suffered.
Mottos
''DAGEN'' had a few mottos, in order to draw distance from other current newspapers.
* ''Til folk som kan læse, fra folk der kan skrive'' (Danish: ''to people who can read, from people who can write'').
* ''Hverken venstreorienteret eller højreorienteret, men velorienteret'' (Danish: ''not
left-wing
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nor
right-wing
Right-wing politics is the range of political ideologies that view certain social orders and hierarchies as inevitable, natural, normal, or desirable, typically supporting this position based on natural law, economics, authority, property ...
, but well present'')
See also
*
List of newspapers in Denmark
The number of national daily newspapers in Denmark was 127 in 1950, whereas it was 37 in 1965. In 2009 the number of newspapers was 36.
The European Journalism Centre (EJC) categorizes Danish newspapers into five groups: National newspapers with l ...
References
External links
*
DAGEN's own website*
Peter Linck-effekten*
"Ingen kender DAGEN" - en håndsyet italiensk sandals turbulente liv*
En moderne Avis-mission* {{cvr, cvr=26335906, name=Dagbladet DAGEN A/S
Danish companies established in 2002
2002 disestablishments in Denmark
Newspapers established in 2002
Newspapers disestablished in 2002
Defunct newspapers published in Denmark
Daily newspapers published in Denmark
Danish-language newspapers
Newspapers published in Copenhagen