The Copenhagen Post is a weekly newspaper providing Danish

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 news in English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 both nationally and internationally; it is the only English-language newspaper published in Denmark. Founded in November 1997 by San Shepherd, The Copenhagen Post has a weekly circulation of between 12,000 and 15,000. The current editor-in-chief is Kevin McGwin.

History

Although founded in 1997, the first printed edition of The Copenhagen Post shipped in February 1998. Since the year 2000, The Copenhagen Post has been published by Ejvind Sandal. In 2002, Jesper Nymark stepped in as CEO.

Content

The Copenhagen Post has been engaged in editorial cooperations with national news service Ritzaus Bureau

Ritzau

Ritzaus Bureau I/S, or Ritzau for short, is a Danish news agency founded in 1866 by Erik Nicolai Ritzau. It is the largest independent Danish news agency, and also collaborates with three other Scandinavian news agencies to provide Nordic News, an English-language Scandinavian news service...

 and daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten

Jyllands-Posten

Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten , commonly shortened to Jyllands-Posten or JP, is a Danish daily broadsheet newspaper. It is based in Viby, a suburb of Århus, and with a weekday circulation of approximately 120,000 copies, it is among the largest-selling newspaper in Denmark...

, as well as supplying daily news in English to the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the European Commission

European Commission

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, and Jyllands-Posten.

Content typically includes politics, business, education, finance, and general news. Each week the paper includes a comprehensive In & Out entertainment guide http://www.inout.dk, founded in May 1998 by Thomas Dalvang Fleurquin (Guide Editor 1998-2008).

In addition to the weekly newspaper that can be subscribed to, The Copenhagen Post can be bought at newsstands and found for free at certain locations such as the Copenhagen Airport

Copenhagen Airport

Copenhagen Airport is the main international airport serving Copenhagen, Denmark and the Oresund Region. It is located on the island of Amager, south of Copenhagen city centre, and west of Malmö city centre on the other side of the Oresund Bridge. The airport lies mainly in the municipality...

. Hardcopy subscribers can also download a password secured PDF copy of the newspaper from the website.

Online news archive

The Copenhagen Post website was established in the spring of 1998 during a short national strike that made printing a hardcopy of the newspaper impossible. The Copenhagen Post website contains a searchable history of all articles ever written for the newspaper - regardless of whether they were published in the printed edition. This makes www.cphpost.dk the largest English-language database in the world for recent Danish news and events (since Spring 1998).

External links

• The Copenhagen Post