Aurora, until December 1927 known as Ystads-Bladet Aurora, was a daily Social Democratic newspaper published from Ystad in southern Sweden. As of 1957, the newspaper had a daily circulation of around 4,730.[1][2]

Editors of the newspaper included J. Pihlman, Elias Nilsson, Ludvig Törnqvist and Henry Hallgren.[1]

The first issue of Aurora was published on August 5, 1899. Then it was a weekly paper, published on Saturdays. It labelled itself as a 'left-leaning' newspaper. 1900-1902 it was published twice a week, 1902-1907 thrice a week. From October 1907 onwards it was published six times per week.[1]

In 1910 the newspaper was titled as 'radical' and in 1933 as 'Social Democratic, pro-Temperance and religious'. Other the political label was simply 'Social Democratic'.[1]

The last issue of the paper was published on December 31, 1957. In 1984, the Ystad arbetarkommun ('Labour Commune', i.e. Social Democratic municipal unit) began publishing a quarterly newsletter with the same name.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Nya Lundstedt - dagstidningar / Kungl. Biblioteket". Archived from the original on 2011-07-25. Retrieved 2009-07-01.
  2. ↑ Braunthal, Julius (ed). Yearbook of the International Socialist Labour Movement. Vol. I. London: Lincolns-Prager International Yearbook Pub. Co, 1957. p. 435
  3. ↑ "Ystads media förr och nu". Archived from the original on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2009-07-01.


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