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Tell us: Why do you read The Local?

We're asking for your feedback so that we can serve foreigners in Sweden to the best of our abilities.

Published: 14 June 2024 11:11 CEST
Updated: 25 June 2024 12:07 CEST
Tell us: Why do you read The Local?
The Local Sweden's editorial team. From left, Richard Orange, Emma Löfgren and Becky Waterton. Photo: Emma Pearson/The Local

It’s a challenging time for the media industry with volatile tech algorithms and advertising markets hitting even the biggest of newsrooms. That’s why I wrote a few weeks ago that it’s such a relief that our focus here at The Local isn’t the tech giants, but our readers.

But it’s also a challenging time for foreigners in Sweden, with tougher migration laws looming on the horizon.

We’re a small newsroom – but if you include our readers we’re in fact a huge team, and we want to take a moment to ensure that we’re continuing to meet your needs. Please fill out the survey below to suggest topics and stories we should cover in the year ahead.

Click this link if the survey doesn’t appear for you.

 

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PHOTO OF THE WEEK

Photo of the week: Can you guess which Swedish city this is?

Every week, The Local invites readers to submit their pictures to our photo competition, to bring our audience together from all parts of Sweden.

Published: 20 June 2024 16:09 CEST
Photo of the week: Can you guess which Swedish city this is?

This week’s winner is Anuj Grover, who sent the above picture of the city of Norrköping.

If you’ve spent much time around the south of Sweden, you’ll have seen the word köping pop up on a lot of city names, including the town of Köping, as well as Linköping, Nyköping, Norrköping and more.

Swedish learners might recognise the root of the verb köpa (to buy), and that’s where these towns get their names: köping was used to refer to market or trading towns.

In the mid-19th century, the Swedish government gave a few dozen of the country’s 2,500 municipalities the right to be a city (stad). A further eight places were defined as köpingar, which was a midway status between städer and municipalköpingar. The number of köpingar rose to reach 95 over the following century.

Many of the towns that incorporated köping into their name later became official städer, but their names often didn’t change. In the early 1970s, many of the distinctions between different municipalities were removed, so you won’t hear the word köping used much, but it lives on in multiple towns.

Norrköping, however, has had its name far longer than that. It received its city credentials in 1384.

It used to have a booming textile industry for centuries, and after the Second World War it was home to 54 factories employing more than 6,000 people.

Would you like to be featured in The Local’s photo of the week series?

You can submit your entries via email at news@thelocal.se with the subject “Photo of the week”, or by submitting your photo to X using the hashtag #TheLocalSwedenPOTW – or look out for our Facebook post every week on The Local Sweden where you can submit your photo.

Please tell us your name so we can credit you as the photographer, and tell us a little bit about the photo and where it was taken.

By submitting a photo, you’re giving us permission to republish it on The Local’s website, our social media and newsletters.

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