Weekendavisen [SEP] country of origin
Weekendavisen
Weekendavisen (meaning "The Weekend Newspaper" in English) is a Danish weekly broadsheet newspaper published on Fridays in Denmark. Its circulation (as of 2007) is approximately 60,000 copies, about ten per cent of which cover subscriptions outside Denmark. According to opinion polls, however, the actual number of readers is much higher (290,000 in 2007). Perceived to be a continuation of the original "Berlingske Tidende", "Weekendavisen" regards itself as the world's oldest newspaper.
History.
Until 1971
the Danish postal service distributed mail twice daily, in the morning and in the afternoon. When afternoon mail delivery was discontinued, Berlingske Aftenavis ("Berlingske Evening Newspaper"), which was the evening edition of the daily newspaper "Berlingske Tidende", had to cease publication, and "Weekendavisen" came into existence as a replacement, known for the first several years as "Weekendavisen Berlingske Aften". The owner and publisher of the paper is the Berlingske Officin.
"Weekendavisen"'s logo contains the original coat of