Vecko-Journalen

Vecko-Journalen
Former editorsBörge Bengtsson
FrequencyWeekly
PublisherÅhlén & Åkerlunds
FounderErik Åkerlund
Founded1910 (1910)
Final issue1963
CountrySweden
Based inStockholm
LanguageSwedish

Vecko-Journalen (Swedish: Weekly Record) was a weekly magazine published under various titles from 1910 to 2002.[1]

History and profile

Vecko-Journalen was founded by Erik Åkerlund in 1910. The same year he also established the publishing company Åhlén & Åkerlunds.[2] The company was acquired by the Bonnier Group in 1929.[3] The magazine was based in Stockholm and was published on a weekly basis.[4] Among many others, Börge Bengtsson served as the editor-in-chief of the magazine.[5]

Vecko-Journalen frequently featured life of Carl Emil Pettersson, a Swedish adventurer, in the 1930s.[6] It was one of the Swedish publications which contained news materials provided by the Swedish Intelligence Agency during World War II.[7]

It was published weekly from 1910 to 1963 when it merged with the magazine Idun and took the double-barrelled name Idun-Veckojournalen. The merged magazine continued to be published weekly until 1980, when falling circulation figures forced it to a monthly cycle, and it was renamed Månadsjournalen (Swedish: Monthly Record). It ceased publication in 2002.

References

  1. ^ Lina Sturfelt (2008). "Eldens återsken. Första världskriget i svensk föreställningsvärld". Lund University. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
  2. ^ Birgitta Steene (1998). "The Swedish Image of America". In Poul Houe; Sven Hakon Rossel (eds.). Images of America in Scandinavia. Amsterdam; Atlanta, GA: Rodopi. p. 175. ISBN 90-420-0611-0.
  3. ^ "Historik". Bonnier Magazines & Brands (in Swedish). Retrieved 14 September 2023.
  4. ^ Dirk Gindt (March 2013). "Transatlantic Translations and Transactions: Lars Schmidt and the Implementation of Postwar American Theatre in Europe". Theatre Journal. 65 (1): 19–37. doi:10.1353/tj.2013.0015. JSTOR 41819820. S2CID 162294032.
  5. ^ "Tidningsmakaren Gunny Widell avliden". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). 23 May 2014. Retrieved 14 January 2017.
  6. ^ Anette Nyqvist (2018). "The Travelling Story of Pettersson in the Pacific". In Stefan Helgesson; et al. (eds.). World Literatures. Exploring the Cosmopolitan-Vernacular Exchange. Stockholm: Stockholm University Press. p. 267. ISBN 978-91-7635-076-8.
  7. ^ Emil Stjernholm (2023). "A Rain of Propaganda: The Media Production of the Office of War Information in Stockholm, 1942–1945". In Fredrik Norén; Emil Stjernholm; C. Claire Thomson (eds.). Nordic Media Histories of Propaganda and Persuasion. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 124. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-05171-5_6. ISBN 978-3-031-05171-5.