{{Short description|Danish daily newspaper}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2015}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = Fyens Stiftstidende | logo = Fyens Stiftstidende 2010 wordmark.svg | image = Denmark-Odense-Fyens Stiftstidende.jpg | image_size = 200px | caption = Fyens Stiftstidende's publishing house, Odense | type = Daily newspaper | format = Broadsheet | founded = {{start date and age|df=y|1772|1|3}} | owners = Den Fynske Bladfond | publisher = Fyens Stiftstidende A/S | editor = Per Westergård | political_position = Independent conservative | headquarters = Odense, Denmark | website = [http://www.fyens.dk/ www.fyens.dk] }}
'''''Fyens Stiftstidende''''' is a daily newspaper in Denmark and has its headquarters in Odense. The paper serves for Funen.
==History and profile== thumb|right|Fyens Stiftstidende's logo, pre 2010 The newspaper was first published on 3 January 1772.<ref>[http://www.fyens.dk/koncernen Fyens Stiftstidende] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070813203220/http://www.fyens.dk/koncernen |date=13 August 2007 }} Om Fyens Stiftstidende-koncernen {{in lang|da}}</ref><ref name=rdmfa>{{cite web|title=Factsheet. Mass Media|url=http://naulibrary.org/dglibrary/admin/book_directory/Mass_communication/777.pdf|work=Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs|access-date=10 February 2015|date=December 2003}}</ref> It was part of the Stiftstidende dailies.<ref name=emb>{{cite web|title=Denmark media|url=http://www.iran-embassy.dk/dmedia.doc|work=Iran Embassy|access-date=9 May 2015}}</ref> The other two Stiftstidende newspapers were published in Aalborg, ''Aalborg Stiftstidende'', which was founded in 1767, and in Aarhus, namely ''Århus Stiftstidende'', which was started in 1794.<ref name=emb/> Until 1841 the newspaper was known as ''Kongelig Priviligerede Odense Adresse-Contoirs Efterretninger''. On 13 April 1993 it changed its 221-year-old tradition as a midday newspaper, to a morning paper. The paper serves for the island of Funen<ref>{{Cite journal | last = Haas | first = Tanni | title = Importing journalistic ideals and practices? | journal = The International Journal of Press/Politics | volume = 8 | issue = 2 | pages = 90–103 | doi = 10.1177/1081180X02251049 | date = April 2003 }}</ref> and has its headquarters in Odense.<ref name=rdmfa/><ref>{{cite book | last1 = Horky | first1 = Thomas | last2 = Nieland | first2 = Jörg-Uwe |title=International Sports Press Survey 2011|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BVpBAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA63|access-date=10 February 2015|date=8 October 2013|publisher=BoD – Books on Demand|isbn=978-3-7322-7886-2|page=63}}</ref> It is published in broadsheet format.<ref name=wpt/>
Since 1975 ''Fyens Stiftstidende'' has had no political affiliation.<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Mortensen | first1 = Peter B. | last2 = Serritzlew | first2 = Søren | title = Newspapers and budgeting: the effects of media coverage on local expenditure decisions | journal = Scandinavian Political Studies | volume = 29 | issue = 3 | pages = 236–260 | doi = 10.1111/j.1467-9477.2006.00151.x | date = September 2006 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.odense.dk/Topmenu/ByMilj%C3%B8/Stadsarkivet/Om%20Odense/Virksomheder/Om%20Fyens%20Stiftstidende.aspx Odense Kommune. Om Fyens Stiftstidende] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071208085634/http://www.odense.dk/Topmenu/ByMilj%C3%B8/Stadsarkivet/Om%20Odense/Virksomheder/Om%20Fyens%20Stiftstidende.aspx |date=8 December 2007 }} {{in lang|da}}</ref> Before that the paper was close to the Conservative People's Party. However, the paper continues to hold a conservative stance.<ref name=rdmfa/><ref>{{cite book | last = Rytter | first = Jens Elo |title=Phasing Out the Colonial Status of Greenland, 1945-54: A Historical Study|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gE8JTZHuHPcC&pg=PA132|access-date=10 February 2015|year=2010|publisher=Museum Tusculanum Press|isbn=978-87-635-2587-9|page=132}}</ref>
Since November 2007, "Stig's Stribe" (meaning ''Stig's Strip'' in English) has appeared in the newspaper from Monday through Friday all year round. The cartoon strip is of the gag strip variety and was created by Danish cartoonist/illustrator Stig Kristensen. Originally, it was placed above the other "regulars" Fyens Stiftstidende ran, ''Pearls Before Swine'' and ''Up and Running'', but starting from February 2009 they moved those inside the newspaper featuring only "Stig's Stribe" on the back page.
The editor in chief of the paper is Per Westergård and he chairs the board of the Centre for Journalism at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, one of the two university journalism departments in Denmark.
==Circulation== In 1910 ''Fyens Stiftstidende'' sold 8,400 copies.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Hans Henrik Hjermitslev|title=Danes commemorating Darwin: apes and evolution at the 1909 anniversary|journal=Annals of Science|date=October 2010|volume=67|issue=4|doi=10.1080/00033790.2010.495316|pmid=21466130|pages=485–525}}</ref> The circulation of the paper was 66,000 copies on weekdays and 89,000 copies on Sundays in the first quarter of 2000, making it one of the top 20 newspapers in the country.<ref>{{cite web|title=The 20 largest daily newspapers 2000|url=http://www.dst.dk/pukora/epub/upload/2179/headword/eng/108.pdf|work=Danmarks Statistik|access-date=15 February 2015}}</ref> The paper had a circulation of 62,000 copies both in 2002 and in 2003.<ref name=wpt>{{cite web|title=World Press Trends|url=http://www.wan-press.org/ecrire/upload/wpt2004.pdf|work=World Association of Newspapers|access-date=8 February 2015|location=Paris|date=2004|archive-date=8 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150208082604/http://www.wan-press.org/ecrire/upload/wpt2004.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=World Press Trends 2003|url=http://www.wan-press.org/IMG/pdf/2003wpt.pdf|work=World Association of Newspapers|access-date=15 February 2015|location=Paris|date=2003|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171108215853/http://www.wan-press.org/IMG/pdf/2003wpt.pdf|archive-date=8 November 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> Its 2004 circulation was 62,000 copies.<ref>{{cite web|title=Media pluralism in the Member States of the European Union|url=http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/media_taskforce/doc/pluralism/media_pluralism_swp_en.pdf|work=Commission of the European Communities|access-date=27 March 2015|location=Brussels|date=16 January 2007}}</ref>
''Fyens Stiftstidende'' had a circulation of 57,970 copies in 2006<ref>{{cite web|title=Top ten daily newspapers by circulation 2006|url=http://www.nordicom.gu.se/sites/default/files/medieforskning-statistik/1127_1060_topten_dailies_2006.xls|work=Nordicom|access-date=8 March 2015}}</ref> and 56,036 copies in 2007.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Nordic Media Market|url=http://www.nordicom.gu.se/sites/default/files/publikationer-hela-pdf/nmt09_001-194.pdf|work=Nordicom|access-date=7 March 2015|date=2009}}</ref> The paper sold 45,858 copies in 2013.<ref>{{cite web|author=Jonas Ohlsson|title=The Nordic Media Market 2015|page=67 |publisher=Nordicom|access-date=24 September 2023|url=https://www.nordicom.gu.se/en/publications/nordic-media-market-2015|date=2 March 2015}}</ref>
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==External links== * [http://www.fyens.dk/ Official website]
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