Det Bästa
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| Categories | General interest magazine |
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| Frequency | Monthly |
| Founded | 1943 |
| First issue | March 1943 |
| Country | Sweden |
| Based in | Stockholm |
| Language | Swedish |
| Website | www |
| ISSN | 1100-4843 |
| OCLC | 185269465 |
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| Conservatism in Sweden |
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Det Bästa (Swedish: The Best) is the Swedish edition of the American Reader's Digest magazine. It has been in circulation since 1943. Its susbtitle is världens mest lästa tidskrift (Swedish: the world's most read magazine).
History and profile
Det Bästa was first published in March 1943 and is affiliated with the American magazine Reader's Digest. Barclay Acheson, director of the international editions of Reader's Digest, involved in the establishment of the magazine in Sweden. Det Bästa comes out monthly and is headquartered in Stockholm. Its publisher was Reader's Digest AB between 1989 and 1998 when the company was renamed as Det Beste AB.
Det Bästa is a news and general interest digest. The magazine had covered materials from its parent publication, Reader's Digest, until 2008 when it was redesigned to expand its content. Its editor-in-chief was Anna-Karin Rabe during this period.
During the Cold War period the Finnish-Soviet Union Association claimed that both Det Bästa and Valitut Palat, Finnish edition of Reader's Digest, were two major anti-Soviet propaganda tools in Finland.
References
- ^ Lennart Nylund (8 September 2000). "Readers [sic] Digest uppvaktas". Svensk Bokhandel (in Swedish). Retrieved 28 December 2022.
- ^ a b c "Det bästa: världens mest lästa tidskrift= Reader's digest" (in Swedish). Libris. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "The Press: Digest's Digests". Time. 13 October 1947. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
- ^ Foreign Trade: Basic Information Sources. July 1946. 1946. p. 41.
- ^ Judith A. Wiles; Charles R. Wiles; Anders Tjernlund (1995). "A comparison of gender role portrayals in magazine advertising The Netherlands, Sweden and the USA". European Journal of Marketing. 29 (11): 41. doi:10.1108/03090569510100696.
- ^ a b Martin Schori (28 August 2008). "Reader's Digest till Sverige". Dagens Media (in Swedish). Retrieved 28 December 2022.
- ^ Marek Fields (2019). Defending Democracy in Cold War Finland. British and American Propaganda and Cultural Diplomacy in Finland, 1944–1970. Leiden: Brill. p. 117. doi:10.1163/9789004416420. ISBN 978-90-04-41642-0.