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A slow newspaper in a fast world

There's something reassuring about an editor who starts his tenure by identifying what the newspaper he is to edit needs to improve on. The biggest problem Dagens Nyheter (DN), Sweden's largest subscription based newspaper, has to face up to is that it is "too slow" according to its new editor-in-chief, Thorbjörn Larsson. Others, who know the paper better than me - I just skim through its headlines every now and then - might find other things to fault it on, but I still think his attitude is encouraging. DN's editorial staff are worried about what Larsson will change: will the former evening newspaper editor turn DN into just that, and evening newspaper? Will he downsize, replace old hacks with his own appointments, bring in a new regime? In other words DN's staff share the usual concerns of journalists in a fast-moving, ever changing industry.

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