Press

The Swedish Press is self-regulated through the Public Press Ombudsman, or Allmänhetens Pressombudsman and the Swedish Press Council, or Pressens Opinionsnämnd. One example of this is that Swedish media follows a principle of not disclosing the identities of suspected criminals. There was some controversy when Dagens Nyheter on 27 September 2003 published the name and picture of Mijailo Mijailovic, who was the suspected assassin of Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh. â–¶(?) (DN) (Swedish: lit. ... September 27 is the 270th day of the year (271st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Surveillance photo of Mijailović at the crime scene Mihailo Mihailović (born 6. ... This does not cite its references or sources. ...

Press freedom in Sweden dates back to 1766 when it was enshrined in a law enacted by the Riksdag of the Estates. It is today a part of the Constitution of Sweden. 1766 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... The Riksdag of the Estates, or Ståndsriksdagen, was the name used for the Estates of the Swedish realm, or Rikets ständer, when they were assembled. ... The Swedish Constitution consists of four fundamental laws (Swedish: grundlagar): The Instrument of Government (Regeringsformen, 1974) The Act of Succession (1810) The Freedom of the Press Act (1766) The Fundamental Law on Freedom of Expression (1991) There is also a law on the working order of the Parliament with a...

The Swedish newspaper with the widest circulation is the evening newspaper Aftonbladet, controlled by the Norwegian media conglomerate Schibsted (majority holder) and the Swedish Trade Union Confederation. Its competitor, Expressen, is controlled by Bonnier AB and has sister editions in Gothenburg (GT) and Malmö (Kvällsposten). Bonnier AB also controls the major national morning newspaper, Dagens Nyheter. Its Stockholm competitor Svenska Dagbladet is owned by Schibsted. Göteborgs-Posten is the major regional newspaper in Gothenburg and the west of Sweden, while another Bonnier-owned newspaper, Sydsvenska Dagbladet, dominates in Malmö and the south. Bonnier AB also owns Sweden's major business newspaper, Dagens Industri. The Local is one of the few English language general news websites in the country. Aftonbladet (Swedish for the evening-sheet) is a Swedish newspaper, founded by Lars Johan Hierta in 1830, during the liberalization of Sweden. ... It has been suggested that Media Institution be merged into this article or section. ... Schibsted (OSE: SCH) is a Norwegian media conglomerate with operations in 18 countries, the most important being Norway and Sweden. ... LO logo The Swedish Trade Union Confederation (Landsorganisationen i Sverige or LO) is an umbrella organisation for sixteen Swedish trade unions that organise blue collar workers. ... Expressen is a Swedish right leaning newspaper founded in 1944. ... Bonnier is a Swedish media group owned by the Bonnier family. ... Gothenburg (Swedish:  ) ) is a city and municipality in the province Västergötland on the west-coast of Sweden. ... View over Malmö towards the old city, from the Kronprinsen skyscraper. ... Kvällsposten is an edition of the Expressen tabloid, distributed in southern Sweden. ... â–¶(?) (DN) (Swedish: lit. ... Svenska Dagbladet (SvD) is a daily newspaper in Sweden. ... Göteborgs-Posten (GP) is a major daily newspaper in Sweden. ... Gothenburg (Swedish:  ) ) is a city and municipality in the province Västergötland on the west-coast of Sweden. ... The main headquarters in Malmö. Sydsvenska Dagbladet Snällposten (also known as Sydsvenskan) is a daily newspaper in Sweden. ... View over Malmö towards the old city, from the Kronprinsen skyscraper. ... Dagens Industri (often referred to as DI) is a financial newspaper in tabloid format and the most profitable daily newspaper in Sweden. ... The Local is an English-language online newspaper published in Sweden. ...

Through its subsidiary Bonnier Tidskrifter AB, Bonnier AB also controls many of Sweden's most popular magazines, such as Amelia, Vecko-Revyn, Allt om Mat, Teknikens Värld and the business magazine Veckans Affärer. Other major magazine publishers in Sweden are Allers förlag, the Danish-controlled Egmont and the French Hachette Filipacchi Médias. This article is about the magazine as a published medium. ... Teknikens värld (In literal English translation: World of Technology) is a leading motor magazine in Sweden. ... Veckans Affärer (Weekly Business) is a Swedish business journal published weekly, dealing in all matters business related both in Sweden and international. ... Egmont is one of the leading media industry groups of Scandinavia. ... Hachette Filipacchi Médias, S.A. (HFM) is the largest magazine publisher in the world. ...

Sweden also has many large organizations which almost all produce membership magazines with a wide readership. The biggest ones, with readership figures above 300 000, include Vår Bostad (published by the Union of Tenants and HSB, a cooperative building society), PRO-pensionären (published by the Pensioners’ National Organisation) and the magazines of the largest trade unions: Kommunalarbetaren (published by the Municipal Workers' Union), Siftidningen (published by the Union of Clerical and Technical Employees in Industry) and Dagens Arbete (published jointly by the Metalworkers' Union, the Industrial Union, the Graphic Workers' Union, the Paper Workers' Union and the Forest and Wood Workers' Union). A union (labor union in American English; trade union, sometimes trades union, in British English; either labour union or trade union in Canadian English) is a legal entity consisting of employees or workers having a common interest, such as all the assembly workers for one employer, or all the workers... The Swedish Municipal Workers Union is the largest Union in Sweden with 570 000 members as of 2005, it was created 1910. ... The Swedish Union of Clerical and Technical Employees in Industry (Sif, formerly Svenska Industritjänstemannaförbundet) is the largest trade union for white-collar workers in Sweden. ... The Swedish Metalworkers Union (Metall) was a trade union in Sweden. ... The Swedish Industrial Union (Industrifacket) was a general trade union in Sweden. ... The Swedish Graphic Workers Union (GF) is a trade union in Sweden. ... The Swedish Paper Workers Union (Pappers) is a trade union in Sweden. ... The Swedish Forest and Wood Workers Union (Skogs- och Träfacket) is a trade union in Sweden. ...

Television

Main article: Television in Sweden

Television in Sweden was for a long time dominated by the public service company Sveriges Television and its two channels. In 1987 the first commercial channel, TV3 was started, broadcasting from London via satellite. In the early 1990s, TV4 became the first commercial channel to be allowed to join the national terrestrial broadcasting network, run by Teracom. Sveriges Television is funded by a fee -- fixed by Parliament and collected by the Kiruna-based Receiving Licence Agency, Radiotjänst i Kiruna AB -- and is regulated, together with TV4, by the Swedish Broadcasting Commission. Sveriges Television (SVT) is a national publicly-funded television broadcaster based in Sweden. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... TV3 is the largest commercial television channel of Viasat, which is part of the Swedish media company Modern Times Group. ... London (pronounced ) is the capital city of the United Kingdom and the largest city of England (strangely, England has no constitutional existence within the United Kingdom, and therefore cannot be said to have a capital). ... Germans dancing on the Berlin Wall in late 1989, the symbol of the cold war divide falls down as the world unites in the 1990s. ... TV4 AB (previously known as Nordisk Television AB) is a Swedish media company that owns the largest commercial television channel in Sweden, TV4. ... Teracom is a terrestrial broadcast service company owned by the Swedish government. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The parliament building from outside. ... Kiruna is a city in northernmost Sweden with 19,000 inhabitants; and 23,000 in the Kiruna Municipality. ... Radiotjänst i Kiruna is a Swedish PBS, funded by a license fee like BBC, Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR) etc. ... Granskningsnämnden för radio och TV (GRN, in English Swedish Broadcasting Commission) is a Swedish government agency formed in 1994 that enforces the official rules of broadcasting for radio and TV. If the agency concludes that a show has broken the rules it issues a fine. ...

There are 4 national and 26 local channels. Its subsidiary company, the leading TV company, Sveriges Television, has broadcasted TV since 1954 and has the analog channels SVT1 and SVT2 and the digital channels 24, Barnkanalen (the children's channel), Kunskapskanalen (the knowledge channel) and SVT Europa for Swedes abroad. Viasat has four Swedish channels: TV3, TV 6, ZTV and TV8, all digital. TV4 has, except the analog TV4, four digital channels: TV4+, TV4 Film, TV400, TV4 Fact, TV4 Gold and TV4 Comedy. A smaller channel is digital Channel 5. SVT24 or 24 is a Swedish language tv channel broadcasted by Sveriges Television (SVT). ...

Radio

National radio is dominated by public service company Sveriges Radio, which is funded through the same fee that is collected for television sets. The sale of commercial radio licenses began in the early 1990s, though commercial radio existed before this through local stations in the larger cities (närradio). Sveriges Radio (SR) - Swedish Radio Ltd - is Swedens national publicly-funded radio broadcaster. ...

Lists

• List of Swedish newspapers
• List of Swedish magazines
• List of Swedish television channels
• List of Swedish radio stations

• List of Swedish language writers
• List of Swedish companies

This is a list of Swedish newspapers with respective city of publication: Morning newspapers Göteborgs-Posten (Gothenburg) Dagens Nyheter. ... This is a list of Swedish magazines:. Super PLAY See also Media in Sweden List of Swedish newspapers Categories: Stub | Swedish media ... This is a list of television channels that broadcast for a Swedish language audience. ... This is a list of radio networks and stations in Sweden and elsewhere broadcasting exclusively or partly in the Swedish language. ... This is a list of Swedish language novelists, poets and other writers. ... This is a list of Swedish companies: Companies A&E design Asea Brown Boveri (Swedish-Swiss) Alfa Laval Akzo Nobel (Swedish-Dutch) Arla Foods (Swedish-Danish) Arla Plast Autoliv Assa Abloy AstraZeneca (Swedish-British) Atlas Copco Avanza Axel Johnson Group Axel Johnson AB Axfood Biacore Boliden Bonniers BRIO Bure Equity...

See also

• Communications in Sweden
• Culture of Sweden
• Ombudsman

Communications in Sweden // Telephones main lines in use: 6,579,200 (2002) mobile cellular: 7. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... An ombudsman is an official, usually (but not always) appointed by the government or by parliament, who is charged with representing the interests of the public by investigating and addressing complaints reported by individual citizens. ...

External links

• Swedish Press Council & Press Ombudsman