Aftonbladet
Aftonbladet is a Swedish tabloid-format newspaper based in Stockholm and one of the largest news outlets in the Nordic region. It has a social-democratic editorial profile on its opinion pages and covers news, politics, sport, and entertainment, with a strong presence as a digital news destination.
Aftonbladet at a glance
- Country
- Sweden
- Region
- Northern Europe · Europe
- Kind of outlet
- Tabloid
- Editorial leaning
- Left-leaning
- Founded
- 1830
- Owner
- Schibsted
- Published from
- Stockholm
- Website
- aftonbladet.se ↗
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How Crosswire groups Aftonbladet
Crosswire groups Aftonbladet as Left-leaning for comparisons within Sweden's directory. This is an approximate Crosswire label, not a verified rating of its individual articles or a claim that every journalist shares one position. In Sweden, Dagens Nyheter and Expressen are listed as Centrist, while Svenska Dagbladet is listed as Right-leaning — so you can open Aftonbladet beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where Aftonbladet sits in Sweden's press
Aftonbladet was founded in 1830, is published from Stockholm and is owned by Schibsted. It is one of 7 outlets tracked in Sweden, and one of 2 tabloids among them — the other being Expressen. By outlets tracked, Sweden ranks seventh of the 45 countries on Crosswire's Europe hub, which lists 264 outlets in all.
Across Europe, Crosswire tracks 19 of the 23 tabloids in the directory. The nearest counterparts to Aftonbladet outside Sweden, starting with Northern Europe, are Ekstra Bladet (Denmark), Ilta-Sanomat (Finland), Õhtuleht (Estonia) and BILD (Germany). Opening one of them beside Aftonbladet is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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