''Hallandsposten'' is a Swedish local morning

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printed in

Halmstad Halmstad () is a port, university, industrial and recreational urban areas of Sweden, city at the mouth of the Nissan (river), Nissan river, in the provinces of Sweden, province of Halland on the Sweden, Swedish west coast. Halmstad is the seat ...

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...

. It is the major

, Hylte and Laholm municipalities

History and profile

''Hallandsposten'' was established in 1850. The first issue appeared on 30 July 1850. The paper became daily in 1900, before that it was printed two times a week. One of the editors of the paper was Eric Hägge who served in the post in the early 1940s. ''Hallandsposten'' is part of the Mediebolaget Västkusten, MBVK, which also owns ''

Hallands Nyheter ''Hallands Nyheter'' is a Swedish newspaper, founded by Artur Lagerihn in 1905. The newspaper is published in Falkenberg. It has a daily circulation of 31,600 and is owned by Stampen AB. The editorial page supports Centerpartiet. It is printed ...

''. ''Hallandsposten'' was published in broadsheet format until 2007 when it switched to

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. The paper has an independent liberal leaning. Hallandsposten was the first newspaper in Sweden to make old prints available to the public. The newspaper has digitalised all print editions since 1931. They are scanned, OCR-processed and available to the public. Older prints were excluded because original quality was too low to OCR-process.

Circulation

The circulation of ''Hallandsposten'' was 32,200 copies in 1996. It was 30,900 copies in 2010. Next year the paper reached 120,000 readers. The paper had a circulation of 29,100 copies in 2012 and 29,000 copies in 2013.

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''Hallandsposten'' (Swedish)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hallandsposten 1850 establishments in Sweden Daily newspapers published in Sweden Halmstad Mass media in Halland County Newspapers established in 1850 Swedish-language newspapers Companies based in Halmstad 19th-century establishments in Halland County