The World in a Magazine

Before the summer we switched our daily newspaper subscription from Svenska dagbladet (SvD) to Dagens nyheter (DN).  Not for good but for a while, until we jump on an offer from the competitor again, as you do.  SvD is really too conservative-leaning for me but I like their (neutral) reporting and layout otherwise and think it's better than DN's.  At least until now because I really like DN's new look.  At first I though the layout and the font and everything looked really strange but after just two days I could see past that.  There's a new focus and style of reporting and I also really like the Stockholm edition.

But that's not what this post was going to be about.  Instead I was going to tell you about the monthly magazine DN Världen (DN World) that DN launched almost a year ago now.  It's has really good in-depth articles as well as shorter interviews with people and snapshots from around the world.  For non-subscriber it's for sale at newsagents or on the iPad (or equivalent). The edition below was a really good one featuring a long articles about Central and South American refugees trying to get to America, and an recent edition with a special about Thai berry pickers in Sweden was also great journalism.

Show & Tell: Favourite Magazines

I've missed the last two weeks of Show & Tell but this week I thought I'd take the time, even if it's technically one day late.

One of my first favourite magazines was Bamse.

Picture from Tidningskungen

I think the first issues I remember were from 1982 when I was 6 years old. I saved all editions for years but at some point in my late teens I threw them out. It's a pity because it would have been fun to have those 1982 ones still. I don't know if my grandmother gave me my very first subscription but it became a tradition that every year in December when it was my "name day" (9 December) she gave me a subscription for the coming year as a gift. I don't remember when I stopped getting them but presumably when I became a teenager. I still prefer Bamse over Donald Duck though. I think the stories in Donald are okay but I don't care much for the drawing.

At some point as a child and a teen I also subscribed to Kamratposten. It had interesting stories and took up all those subjects about your body and feelings that you didn't want to bring up with either friends or adults.

Image from Tidningsbutiken

I was never a horse fan so I never subscribed to (and hardly read) "stables" magazines. As a teen I read a lot of teen and music magazines such as Frida and Okej.

Picture taken from Vassa Eggen

Nowadays my favourite magazines are the Economist to feed my current affairs needs and Vanity Fair for a mix of everything including some interesting articles. I got a subscription for VF from Peter for Christmas and I have subscribed to the Economist in the past but at the moment I don't feel like I have the time to read it and they just grow into a big pile on the floor (at the moment I have a little pile of VFs that I haven't read...). So I buy it once in a while instead.

Image from China Daily

I also read King when Peter buys it (he stopped his subscription for a while), which is a men's magazine but I find it much better than the equivalent women's magazines. Maybe because it's a bit more "exotic" or the abundance of useless fashion ads in the women's magazines.

Picture from Dagens media

Lastly I enjoy reading design and interior decorating magazines - I like those much better than women's mags actually. I also like gossip magazines but I hardly ever buy them; I read them for free and cafés or the hairdresser's instead. And I also get my gossip from Just Jared :)