Västerbottens-Kuriren
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | Stiftelsen VK-press |
| Editor-in-chief | Ingvar Näslund |
| Staff writers | 199 (December 2012) |
| Founded | 17 May 1900 |
| Political alignment | liberal |
| Language | Swedish |
| Headquarters | Umeå, Sweden |
| Circulation | 30,800 (2013) |
| ISSN | 1104-0246 |
| Website | www.vk.se (Swedish) |
Västerbottens-Kuriren (also known as VK) is a Swedish newspaper founded in 1900. It is published in Umeå, Västerbotten, Sweden. The newspaper covers regional news from the region Västerbotten (with the exception of the municipalities Mala, Norsjö and Skellefteå), with a special interest in the home town Umeå, in combination with national news and international news.
VK published its first issue on 17 May 1900. The paper grew rapidly, and became the largest newspaper in the Västerbotten County in 1903 - a position it has held since. Among the early journalists involved with the newspaper was the author Astrid Väring.
Gustav Rosén, who played an important role in the history of Sweden's Folkpartiet (Liberal People's Party) was the executive director until 1926, when he was appointed as Minister of Defence in the first cabinet of Carl Gustav Ekman. His successor Ernst Gafvelin died already after six months, after which Gustav Rosén's only son, Stellan Rosen, took over as editor and publisher at the age of 23. When the Cabinet-Ekman I resigned in September 1928, Gustav Rosén returned to Umeå - first as political editor of VK and from 1931 until his death in 1942 as County Governor of Västerbotten County.
In 1929 Rosén sold the majority of his shares to master builder J.M. Bäckström, who began building a new publishing house the following year at the block Rind, at Rådhusesplanaden 10 in central Umeå. The VK building was completed by the end of 1930/1931 and housed VK until 1988. In 1949 VK was the first news paper in Norrland to hire its own press photographer, Harry Lindwall, who would remain in service until his retirement in 1985.
VK was owned by the Bäckström family until 1971, 15 years after the death of JM Bäckström. After a disagreement between the Sundsvall branch of the heirs (who wanted to sell) and the Umeå branch (who wanted to keep the VK as a liberal and freethinking news paper) the paper was first sold to the small printing company Folk och Samhälle (People and Society) and later around 1978 to the Stiftelsen VK-Press (VK-Press Foundation).
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