Bonnier News - newspapers

SDS Group Strengthens Its Digital Media

By Bert Menninga on 2010-08-26
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SDS Group's business area Digital Media will be broadened. Camilla Jonsson will be the new manager.

The mandate for the SDS Group's business area Digital Media has become broader - and deeper - with a comprensive approach for all digital development and sales.

Sydsvenskan Best Again

By Niklas Sessler on 2009-10-15
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Awards for journalistic excellence, Photograph of the Year, Editor of the Year, Newspaper of the Year… The flow of prizes awarded to Sydsvenskan is seemingly endless. Which begs the question: How do they do it?

Photo: Lars Dareberg

Sydsvenskan and its staff have been literally inundated with awards and accolades throughout the past twelve months. Here are some examples:

The new face of Bakom Rubrikerna

By Niklas Sessler on 2009-10-13
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Every year thousands of middle and high school, adult education and media students visit Bakom Rubrikerna, a joint media center run by Dagens Nyheter and Expressen. Bakom Rubrikerna, which is Swedish for “behind the headlines,” has now undergone a thorough update with a heavy focus on digital media – just in time for its tenth anniversary

Photo: Elin Eriksson

The center, which modestly calls itself "probably the best media center in the world," is located in Marieberg, in the heart of Stockholm's publishing district. At its founding in the fall of 1999, Bakom Rubrikerna had the stated goal of building closer contacts with future newspaper readers. Ten years later, despite a total renovation in form and content, the ambition remains the same.

Record Site Traffic for Expressen.se

By Niklas Sessler on 2009-08-20
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2.2 million unique visitors came to Expressen.se during the week of August 9-15, breaking Expressen.se's previous record  

Expressen.se had 2,176,291 unique visits in week 33, August 9-15. This is 26 percent higher than the same period last year and a record for the site. It is most likely the best figure ever for a Swedish Bonnier site.

Äripäev: In the Black and Gaining Market Share

By Ganda Suthivarakom on 2009-07-01
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How the dominant Estonian daily business newspaper is staying profitable through the harshest economic conditions in its history

In 2007, Äripäev enjoyed their most successful year ever, with a turnover of 14.5MM EUR and a profit margin of 20%. So what did they do next? They started laying people off.

"The outlook was very dark, and we were one of the first companies to start to fire people, thank God," says Äripäev Editor-in-Chief Meelis Mandel.

It may have seemed untoward at the time, but as everyone now knows, their preemptive measures proved prescient.

Making Headlines

By Niklas Sessler on 2009-05-12
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Dagens Nyheter wins accolades for its innovative campaigns

På Stan, the weekend section of the biggest Swedish morning paper Dagens Nyheter, won the award for Campaign of the Year—the most prestigious prize available at the Stockholm Media Awards. The winning campaign must be pioneering, innovative and challenge traditional media solutions.