title: Weekendavisen
text: 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).
  
  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 arms of Berlingske Tidende, including the words "ANNO 1749", and its volume count begins in that year rather than in 1971 because its publishers and editors regard it as a continuation of the original Berlingske Tidende.
  
  CharacteristicsWeekendavisen is a highbrow newspaper containing in-depth analyses of society and politics as well as extensive coverage of literature and fine arts. The weekly covers matters of national and international rather than local interest.Weekendavisen is split into four sections each week: Society, Culture, Books and Ideas, which covers science-related news and articles.
  
  AwardsWeekendavisen presents the annual Weekendavisen Book Award. The nominees are selected by the newspaper's corps of literary critics and the final winner is selected by the readers.
  
  Editors-in-chief
   1950-1973: Otto Fog-Petersen
   1973-1978: Henning Fonsmark
   1978-1984: Frank Esmann
   1984-1987 Jørgen Schleimann
   1987-1992 Tøger Seidenfaden
   1992-1998 Peter Wivel
   1998-2017 Anne Knudsen
   2017- Martin Krasnik
  
  See also
   Eks Libris
  
  References
  
  External links
    Official website
    Information on Weekendavisen at the website of the paper's owner, the Berlingske Officin  Information on Weekendavisen at the paper's own website
   Denmark - Culture - Mass Media – an overview of the history of the Danish press at the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark. Weekendavisen'' is mentioned in the last paragraph of section 4.13.4.
  
   
  Berlingske Media
  1971 establishments in Denmark
  Danish-language newspapers
  Newspapers established in 1971
  Newspapers published in Copenhagen
  Weekly newspapers published in Denmark