Expressen and DN Win Paper of the Year Prizes

Today industry association Tidningsutgivarna announced its winners of the Daily Newspaper of the Year awards. Several prizes went to Bonnier: Expressen, which won for editorial staff of the year, and Dagens Nyheter, which won for advertising department of the year. Dagens Nyheter's sales representative Anna Smidemark was also named sales rep of the year.

"I am incredibly proud of and happy for everyone working at DN, this is their win," says Henrik Stangel, advertising sales director at Dagens Nyheter. "And sales rep of the year, Anna Smidemark, makes an excellent standard bearer for our sales work. She's a brilliant example of how we want to be perceived in our daily work. One of the conditions for success in our work has been our great cooperation with above all the editorial staff, who have supported us with our customers. The result is increased customer satisfaction with greater market share and profits.

You can see all the winners here (in Swedish) and read blogs posts about the awards from Expressen Editor-in-Chief Thomas Mattsson  here and here (in Swedish).