''Folkbladet'' (
Swedish: ''The People's Paper'') was a Swedish-language newspaper published in
Norrköping
Norrköping ( , ) is a city in the province of Östergötland in eastern Sweden and the seat of Norrköping Municipality, Östergötland County, about 160 km southwest of the national capital Stockholm, 40 km east of county seat Lin ...
, Sweden. The paper was in circulation from 1905 to 2024.
History and profile
The paper was founded by workers with the name ''Östergötlands Folkblad'' in 1905.
In 1998 it was renamed ''Folkbladet''.
The paper was headquartered in Norrköping and owned by the Norrköping Tidningar AB (NTM Group). The company acquired the paper in 2000.
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Norrköpings Tidningar
''Norrköpings Tidningar'' (English language, English: ''Norrköping Times''), also known as ''NT'', is a Swedish language daily newspaper with its main distribution in northern and eastern Östergötland, Sweden.
History and profile
The newspap ...
'' became its sister paper of following this acquisition.
Before this transaction ''Folkbladet'' had a social democratic political stance. When it was a social democratic publication one of its contributors was
Lars Stjernkvist, a social democrat politician and future secretary general of the Swedish Social Democratic Party.
In 2010 ''Folkbladet'' sold 6,500 copies.
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See also
*List of Swedish newspapers
The number of newspapers in Sweden was 235 in 1919. It decreased to 125 papers in the mid-1960s. In 2009 the number of the newspapers in the country was 90.
This is a list of Swedish-language newspapers with their respective cities of publicatio ...
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1905 establishments in Sweden
Mass media in Norrköping
Daily newspapers published in Sweden
Newspapers established in 1905
Swedish-language newspapers
20th-century establishments in Östergötland County
21st-century disestablishments in Östergötland County