Blekinge Läns Tidning

Blekinge Läns Tidning, known as BLT, is a local newspaper in Karlskrona, Sweden, which has been in circulation since 1869.

Blekinge Läns Tidning
BLT's office
TypeLocal newspaper
Founder(s)
  • Frans August Blomquist
  • Palle Nilsson
PublisherAB Blekinge Läns Tidning
Founded1869 (1869)
Political alignmentLiberal
LanguageSwedish
CountrySweden
Websitehttps://www.blt.se/

History and profile

Blekinge Läns Tidning was established by Frans August Blomquist and Palle Nilsson in Karlskrona in 1869, and its first issue appeared in December that year.[1] The paper was published twice a week by Bolagstryckeriet, a company owned by Blomquist and Nilsson, who sold Blekinge Läns Tidning in 1873. It was published under different title until 1878 when Göte Bjurman acquired the paper. Then its original title, Blekinge Läns Tidning, began to be used, and it was published by Länsboktryckeriet. Bjurman edited and published the paper until 1904 and N. S. Lundström succeeded him in both posts.[1]

Its owners changed again twice until 1911. Its publishing company, AB Blekinge Läns Tidning, was founded the same year.[1] The frequency of the paper increased to six per week in the 1920s.[2]

Blekinge Läns Tidning was a social democratic publication in the early period.[2] However, later it adopted a liberal political stance.[2][3] It is one of the Swedish media outlets which publish interviews with far-right political figures one of which was with Richard Jomshof in August 2021.[4]

Tidningen Barometerns AB bought the stock majority in Blekinge Läns Tidning in 1975.[3] During this period the paper was the best-selling newspaper with a circulation of 30,000 copies.[3] Another local newspaper based in Karlskrona, Karlshamns Allehanda, was acquired by Blekinge Läns Tidning in 1976.[2] Blekinge Läns Tidning merged with Barometern and Smålandsposten, to create the Sydostpress Newspaper Group in 1990.[3] It created the joint holding company Gota Media with three newspapers, namely Barometern, Borås Tidning and Smålandsposten in 2003.[3][5]

Blekinge Läns Tidning sold 34,500 copies in 2010.[5]

References

  1. "Blekinge Läns Tidning" (in Swedish). Blekinge Riksarkivet. Retrieved 30 August 2023.
  2. Karl Erik Gustafsson; Per Rydén (2010). A History of the Press in Sweden. Gothenburg: Nordicom. pp. 184, 336. ISBN 978-91-86523-08-4.
  3. Jonas Ohlsson (2012). The Practice of Newspaper Ownership (PhD thesis). University of Gothenburg. pp. 183, 190, 260–261, 316–317. hdl:2077/29101.
  4. Pasko Kisic Merino; Catarina Kinnvall (November 2022). "Governing Emotions: Hybrid media, Ontological Insecurity and the Normalisation of Far-Right Fantasies". Alternatives: Global, Local, Political. 48 (1): 54–55. doi:10.1177/03043754221123467.
  5. Mart Ots (2012). "Competition, Collaboration and Cooperation: Swedish Provincial Newspaper Markets In Transition". Journal of Media Business Studies. 9 (2): 48. doi:10.1080/16522354.2012.11073543.
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