{{Short description|Swedish newspaper}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2026}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = {{Lang|sv|Göteborgs-Posten}} | logo = GP logotyp transparent.png | logo_caption = Logo | image = Göteborgs-Posten frontpage.jpg | image_border = yes | caption = Front page, 27 December 2006 | type = Daily newspaper | format = Compact | owners = Stampen AB | editor = Christofer Ahlqvist | founded = 1813 | political_position = Liberal | language = Swedish | headquarters = Polhemsplatsen 5,<br />Gothenburg | circulation = 173,700 (2013) | ISSN = 1103-9345 | website = {{URL|gp.se}} }}
'''{{Lang|sv|Göteborgs-Posten}}''' ({{literal|The Gothenburg Post}}), abbreviated '''GP''', is a major Swedish-language daily newspaper published in Gothenburg, Sweden.
==History and profile== {{Lang|sv|Göteborgs-Posten}} was first published in 1813,<ref name=Vox>{{cite web|title=Göteborgs-Posten|url=http://www.voxeurop.eu/en/content/source-information/30191-goeteborgs-posten|work=VoxEurop|access-date=18 January 2015}}</ref> but ceased publication in 1822. It re-appeared in 1850. Publication seven days a week began in 1939. The paper is owned and published by a family company, Stampen, a subsidiary of Hjörne group.<ref name=swi/><ref>{{cite web|author=Eva Harrie|title=The Nordic Media Market|url=http://www.nordicom.gu.se/sites/default/files/publikationer-hela-pdf/nmt09_001-194.pdf|publisher=Nordicom, University of Gothenburg|access-date=10 December 2014|location=Göteborg|date=2009}}</ref> It changed its format from the classic broadsheet to compact on 5 October 2004.<ref>{{cite news|title=The press in Sweden|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3553279.stm|access-date=18 November 2014|work=BBC News|date=2004}}</ref><ref name=srep>{{cite journal|title=Shaping the Future of the Newspaper|journal=Strategy Report|date=June 2005|volume=4|issue=5|url=http://www.wan-press.org/IMG/pdf/4.5v13.pdf|access-date=5 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051212172422/http://www.wan-press.org/IMG/pdf/4.5v13.pdf|archive-date=12 December 2005|url-status=dead}}</ref>
{{Lang|sv|Göteborgs-Posten}} is published in Gothenburg,<ref name=srep/> containing coverage of local, regional, national and international issues. It is chiefly distributed in western Götaland. The stated position of the editorial page is liberal (which in Sweden means center-right).<ref name=swi>{{cite web|title=Swedish mass media |url=http://www.swedenabroad.com/SelectImageX/178411/Swedish_mass_media%5B1%5D.pdf |work=Swedish Institute |access-date=18 November 2014 |date=2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121031064503/http://www.swedenabroad.com/SelectImageX/178411/Swedish_mass_media%5B1%5D.pdf |archive-date=31 October 2012 }}</ref>
==Circulation== According to its publisher, seven out of ten Gothenburgers read {{Lang|sv|Göteborgs-Posten}} daily in 2008.<ref>[http://www.stampen.com/sv/index.php?page=tidningar Stampen - Tidningar] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081221185735/http://www.stampen.com/sv/index.php?page=tidningar |date=21 December 2008 }}</ref> In 1998 the circulation of the paper was 258,000 copies on weekdays and 286,000 copies on Sundays.<ref>{{cite journal|author1=Stig Hadenius|author2=Lennart Weibull|title=The Swedish Newspaper System in the Late 1990s. Tradition and Transition|journal=Nordicom Review|date=1999|volume=1|issue=1|url=http://www.nordicom.gu.se/sites/default/files/kapitel-pdf/31_hadenius-weibull.pdf|access-date=31 December 2014}}</ref> The paper had a circulation of 245,900 copies on weekdays in 2005.<ref name=swi/> It reached about 600,000 people every day with a circulation of 245,700 in 2006.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20050314232031/http://www.gp.se/gp/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=721&a=204246 GP]</ref> Its 2010, the circulation was 227,200 copies.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Göteborgs-Posten|encyclopedia=Nationalencyklopedin|language=sv|url=http://www.ne.se/göteborgs-posten|access-date=25 March 2011}}</ref> The paper had a circulation of 189,400 copies in 2012 and 173,700 copies in 2013.<ref>{{cite web|author=Frank Eriksson Barman|title=In search of a profitability framework for the local daily newspaper industry. A case study at Göteborgs-Posten|url=http://publications.lib.chalmers.se/records/fulltext/203410/203410.pdf|publisher=Chalmers University of Technology|access-date=6 March 2015|location=Gothenburg|format=Report|date=2014}}</ref>
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==See also== *Göteborgs Handels- och Sjöfartstidning *List of Swedish newspapers
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==External links== {{Commons}} *[http://www.gp.se/ Official website] {{in lang|sv}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20050314232031/http://www.gp.se/gp/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=721&a=204246 Official website - information in English]
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Goteborgs-Posten}} Category:1813 establishments in Sweden Category:Publications established in 1813 Category:Daily newspapers published in Sweden Category:Swedish-language newspapers Category:Mass media in Gothenburg Category:Swedish news websites Category:19th-century establishments in Gothenburg and Bohus County