Svenska Dagbladet
Svenska Dagbladet is a daily newspaper published in Stockholm and one of Sweden's leading quality titles. It is known for a conservative, centre-right editorial outlook and provides extensive coverage of politics, business, and culture for an informed readership.
Svenska Dagbladet at a glance
- Country
- Sweden
- Region
- Northern Europe · Europe
- Kind of outlet
- Daily newspaper
- Editorial leaning
- Right-leaning
- Founded
- 1884
- Owner
- Schibsted
- Published from
- Stockholm
- Website
- svd.se ↗
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How Crosswire groups Svenska Dagbladet
Crosswire groups Svenska Dagbladet as Right-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, Aftonbladet is listed as Left-leaning, while Dagens Nyheter and Expressen are listed as Centrist — so you can open Svenska Dagbladet beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where Svenska Dagbladet sits in Sweden's press
Svenska Dagbladet was founded in 1884, is published from Stockholm and is owned by Schibsted. It is one of 7 outlets tracked in Sweden, and one of 4 daily newspapers among them — the others being Dagens Nyheter, Göteborgs-Posten and Sydsvenskan. 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 109 of the 396 daily newspapers in the directory. The nearest counterparts to Svenska Dagbladet outside Sweden, starting with Northern Europe, are The Irish Times (Ireland), Morgunblaðið (Iceland), Aftenposten (Norway) and Politiken (Denmark). Opening one of them beside Svenska Dagbladet is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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