Berlingske Tidende: Information from Answers.com

Front page of the first edition (1749)
Type	Daily newspaper (since 1841)
Format	Compact
Owner	Berlingske Media
Publisher	Berlingske Tidende A/S
Editor	Lisbeth Knudsen
Founded	January 3, 1749
Political alignment	Conservative
Language	Danish
Headquarters	Copenhagen, Denmark
Circulation	103,685^[1]
Official website	www.berlingske.dk

Berlingske Tidende is a Danish daily newspaper. Founded in 1749 by Ernst Henrich Berling, it is the oldest Danish newspaper still in existence, and in the World only eight other newspapers (Post- och Inrikes Tidningar 1645, London Gazette 1665, Wiener Zeitung 1703, Hildesheimer Allgemeine 1705, Hanauer Anzeiger 1725, Sankt-Peterburgskie Vedomosti 1727, News Letter 1737, and Scots Magazine 1739) are older.^[2]

With a circulation of about 103,685 copies on weekdays, it is also one of the "big three" broadsheet-quality newspapers in Denmark along with Jyllands-Posten and Politiken. Traditionally itself a broadsheet, Berlingske Tidende has been also published in the tabloid/compact format since August 28, 2006.^[3]

Berlingske Tidende has won many awards in recent years. It is the only newspaper in the world to have won the World Press Photo Award four times. It has also won the most prestigious journalistic award in Denmark, the Cavling price, in 2009.

Following a long period of ownership by the Berling family, the whole Berlingske-group was acquired in 1982 by a group of investors from the Danish corporate establishment including Danske Bank and A.P. Møller Mærsk. This takeover saved the group from an impending bankruptcy caused by a long strike period as well as dwindling circulation and advertising revenues.

In 2000, Det Berlingske Officin was acquired by the Norwegian industrial conglomerate Orkla Group; the Danish organization was integrated within a multinational Orkla Media group. In 2006 Orkla Media, was sold to the British Mecom Group.^[4]