Politiken

Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner	Politiken Fonden (88.4%) Ellen Hørups Fond (4.4%) Others (7.3%)
Publisher	JP/Politikens Hus A/S
Editor	Tøger Seidenfaden
Founded	October 1, 1884
Political alignment	Social liberal
Language	Danish
Headquarters	Copenhagen, Denmark
Circulation	107,788 [1]
Official website	politiken.dk

Politiken building on The City Hall Square, Copenhagen. Photo by Henrik Reinholdson.

Politiken (Danish pronunciation: [pʰoliˈtˢiɡən]) is a Danish daily broadsheet newspaper, published by JP/Politikens Hus.

Politiken comes second among Danish newspapers in terms of circulated copies, 107,788 (second half of 2008).^[2] The daily edition of the newspaper has 450,000 readers, 585,000 on Sundays^[3], also putting it in second place (free dailies excluded).

Politiken Weekly is the international edition of Politiken, compiling the most important stories of a week for Danes living abroad.

Politiken relaunched itself on its birthday, October 1, 2006, keeping the broadsheet format but splitting most pages horizontally into "overview" (the upper 20-25 percent of a broadsheet page) and "depth" (rest of the page).

The depth part provides more analytical, investigative and feature-like articles that tend to be longer and more carefully presented than traditional newspaper articles. The overview part is partly produced by the papers online desk Politiken.dk and summarizes events of the latest 24 hours. The idea is to present a more distinctive and sharper selection of stories without losing the broad coverage of a traditional paper.

Internationally, Politiken has been known for its photography. Jan Grarup, winner of several World Press Photo Awards and numerous other prizes, was a staff photographer from 2003 until 2009^[4], and several other photographers of the paper have won international acclaim in the last ten years.

In 2007 Society for News Design declared that Politiken and three other newspapers were the World's best designed newspapers.^[5] "There is nothing timid about this paper", the judges said.^[6]

History

Dagbladet Politiken (The Daily Politiken) was founded October 1, 1884 in Copenhagen by Viggo Hørup, Edvard Brandes and Hermann Bing^[7]. It had an original daily circulation of 2,000 copies. The paper established its present location in central Copenhagen at The City Hall Square in 1912.

Politiken, and especially its editor-in-chief Tøger Seidenfaden, are determined supporters of a closer European Union.

Originally Politiken was connected to the Danish Social Liberal Party (Det Radikale Venstre) but the newspaper declared its political independence in 1970.

The Cavling Award

Cavlingprisen ("The Cavling Award") is a Danish honorary award for journalism. It was named after a former reporter and editor-in-chief at Politiken Henrik Cavling.

Cavling award winners at Politiken:

• 1945 Henrik V. Ringsted
• 1962 Jørgen Hartmann-Petersen (Habakuk)
• 1966 Herbert Pundik
• 1968 Erik Nørgaard
• 1974 Anne Wolden-Ræthinge (Ninka)
• 1982 J. B. Holmgaard
• 2006 Miriam Dalsgaard (photographer) and Olav Hergel

Editors in chief

In some periods there were more than one, which is why some overlap each other.

• 1884-1901: Viggo Hørup
• 1901-1904: Edvard Brandes
• 1905-1927: Henrik Cavling
• 1927-1937: Valdemar Koppel
• 1937-1933: Ove Rode
• 1931-1959: Niels Hasager
• 1941-1963: Poul Graae
• 1946-1959: Hakon Stephensen
• 1959-1963: Svend Tillge-Rasmussen
• 1963-1966: Bo Bramsen
• 1963-1970: Ernst Priemé
• 1963-1971: Harald Engberg
• 1966-1971: Arne Ejbye-Ernst
• 1970-1993: Herbert Pundik
• 1971-1982: Bent Thorndahl
• 1981-1993: Agner Ahm
• 1981-1992: Jørgen Grunnet^[8]
• 1993-?  : Tøger Seidenfaden

See also

• List of non-English newspapers with English language subsections

References

External links

• Dagbladet Politiken (Danish)
• News in English. From Politiken