Vecko-Journalen

Vecko-Journalen was a weekly magazine published under various titles from 1910 to 2002.

History and profile

Vecko-Journalen was founded by Erik Åkerlund in 1910. The same year he also established the publishing company Åhlén & Åkerlunds. The company was acquired by the Bonnier Group in 1929. The magazine was based in Stockholm and was published on a weekly basis. Among many others, Börge Bengtsson served as the editor-in-chief of the magazine.
Vecko-Journalen frequently featured life of Carl Emil Pettersson, a Swedish adventurer, in the 1930s. It was one of the Swedish publications which contained news materials provided by the Swedish [Security Service|Swedish Intelligence Agency] during World War II.
It was published weekly from 1910 to 1963 when it merged with the magazine Idun and took the double-barrelled name Idun-Veckojournalen. The merged magazine continued to be published weekly until 1980, when falling circulation figures forced it to a monthly cycle, and it was renamed Månadsjournalen. It ceased publication in 2002.