Bonnier News - sweden

Expressen Gives Out Culture Awards

By Bert Menninga on 2012-02-01
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On Monday, Swedish tabloid Expressen gave out its annual culture prizes. The Björn Nilsson Prize for the year's best culture journalist went to to reporter Johan Hakelius. The prize was first awarded to Björn Nilsson himself in 1994. The award includes SEk 30,000 and a statuette. A Bit of George's Hat, a theater prize, went to director Alexander Mörk-Eidem, the Heffaklumpen prize for culture for kids went to the children's theater Barnens Underjordiska Scen and the Spelmannen music prize went to Åke Holmquist.

Car News in Your Phone

By Bert Menninga on 2012-01-30
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Teknikens Värld app soon available at the Windows Phone Marketplace - and on Nokia's new Windows Phone.

Swedish car magazine Teknikens Värld is making news with its app that will be available for downloading with the launch of Nokia's Windows Phone in Sweden. The app is part of a bigger cooperation among Bonnier, Microsoft and Nokia.

The new app will feature the latest car news, taking advantage of touch technology with intuitive navigation.

"Users will be able to surf through news from the car world while also getting a good overview," says Daniel Frodin, editor-in-chief for Teknikens Värld.

Magazine Readers Travel to China

By Josefin Falk on 2012-01-24
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Special trips arranged by magazines for their readers is increasingly popular. At Sweden's Bonnier Tidskrifter, China is the destination of choice, says Oscar Sandberg from BT Experience.

Readers who travel with magazines - the trend for magazine readers to take group trips arranged by the magazine continues to be a hot trend. At Sweden's Bonnier Tidskrifter, the various magazines will have some 25-30 trips set up for their readers. And one of the biggest destinations is China.

Håkan Rudels on Books

By Bert Menninga on 2012-01-24
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Bonnierförlagens new publishing director talks about the future of the book industry.

Today, Bonnierförlagen announced that Håkan Rudels has been named publishing director for the Swedish publisher, which includes Albert Bonniers Förlag, Wahlström & Widstrand and a number of other publishing houses. We talked with Rudels about his position and the future.

What is your background and what have you been doing up until now?

I'm an economist from the beginning and before I started at Bonnierförlagen I was sales manager for a bookstore chain.

New Food App from Bonnier Fakta

By Bert Menninga on 2012-01-19
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LCHF-recept hits No. 1 in all categories at Sweden's App Store.

Swedish book publisher Bonnier Fakta has launched a new iPhone food app based on Anna Hallén's popular LCHF - low carb high fat - cookbooks, which have sold more than 60,000 copies.

"The app has been a storybook success," says Magnus Nytell, who's worked with the app at Bonnierförlagen, of which Bonnier Fakta is a part.

TV4 News Launches

By Bert Menninga on 2012-01-18
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TV4 News, Sweden's only 24-hour news channel, starts on Jan. 24.

Anchors Peter Lindgren and Anna Herdenstam

On January 24, watch when Sweden's only 24-hour news channel launches: TV4 News. Swedish TV viewers will get a complete news service with global, national and local sports, weather, business, entertainment and general news. A unique cooperation with BBC World News will give viewers a value-added international perspective and analysis.

Winning Stats for Advertisers

By Bert Menninga on 2011-12-01
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With Bink Tracking, advertisers get data they've never gotten before.

Martin Ahrend

With SEK 5.7 invested in digital advertising last year in Sweden, it's ever more important to know how ads are affecting consumers. So for over a year, Bink, the cross-Bonnier web sales company, has been working with research firm Nepa to develop a tool to accurately measure the scope of online advertising.

TV4 Play iPad App Launched

By Bert Menninga on 2011-11-22
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Yesterday Sweden's No. 1 commercial channel launched an iPad app for its play-on-demand service, TV4 Play. Most of TV4's most watched programs are available on TV4 Play for seven days after they've been broadcast. A pay service, TV4 Play Premium, gives access to extra content, exclusive previews and archived material with a very high sound and picture quality, as well as material without commercials. Many of TV4's programs are now available in tablets and cell phones, as well as on the net and in Samsung and LG smart TV products.

August Prize to The Boys

By Bert Menninga on 2011-11-22
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Sweden's top book prize goes to Jessica Schiefauer's children's book.

Jessica Schiefauer's Pojkarna (The boys) won Sweden's prestigious book award, the August Prize 2011 for the Swedish children's and young adult book of the year. The prize was announced yesterday at a ceremony in Stockholm. The jury wrote that "boy country is infiltrated with a sharp and revealing girl's point of view.

More From SF Bio Online

By Bert Menninga on 2011-11-21
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Cinema chain SF Bio launches biggest digital initiative ever.

For Swedish cinema chain SF Bio, the web has become one of the key points of contact with moviegoers. Traffic at the chain's site, sf.se, has grown 140 percent since 2005, with 1.5 million unique monthly visitors and nearly 20 million page views.