Hallandsposten
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Hallandsposten is a Swedish local morning newspaper printed in Halmstad, Sweden. It is the major newspaper of Halmstad, Hylte and Laholm municipalities
History and profile
Hallandsposten was established in 1850.<ref name="wes">Template:Cite book</ref> The first issue appeared on 30 July 1850.<ref name=ade>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The paper became daily in 1900, before that it was printed two times a week. One of the editors of the paper was Eric Hägge who served in the post in the early 1940s.<ref>Template:Cite thesis</ref>
Hallandsposten is part of the Mediebolaget Västkusten, MBVK, which also owns Hallands Nyheter.<ref name=ade/> Hallandsposten was published in broadsheet format until 2007 when it switched to tabloid format.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> The paper has an independent liberal leaning.<ref name=ade/>
Hallandsposten was the first newspaper in Sweden to make old prints available to the public.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The newspaper has digitalised all print editions since 1931.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> They are scanned, OCR-processed and available to the public.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Older prints were excluded because original quality was too low to OCR-process.
Circulation
The circulation of Hallandsposten was 32,200 copies in 1996.<ref name="wes"/> It was 30,900 copies in 2010.<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref> Next year the paper reached 120,000 readers.<ref name=ade/> The paper had a circulation of 29,100 copies in 2012 and 29,000 copies in 2013.<ref name=feb>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>