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{{Short description|Government gazette of Sweden}}
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| format               = [[Online newspaper|Digital]]
| owners               = [[Svenska Akademien]]
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| publisher            = [[Horace Engdahl]]
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| headquarters         = [[Stockholm]], Sweden
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'''''Post- och Inrikes Tidningar''''' ({{lit|Post and Domestic Times}}) or '''''PoIT''''' is the government newspaper and [[gazette]] of Sweden, and the country's official notification medium for announcements like bankruptcy declarations or [[auction]]s. The newspaper also carries advertising, the largest advertiser being the [[Government agencies in Sweden#Ministry of Industry, Employment and Communications|Swedish Patent and Registration Office]].

It is the oldest currently published newspaper in the world, although as of the 1 January 2007 edition, it has switched over to an internet-only format.<ref name=ne /><ref>[http://www.wan-press.org/article2823.html Oldest newspapers still in circulation] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040107070325/http://www.wan-press.org/article2823.html |date=7 January 2004 }} - [[World Association of Newspapers]]</ref> Four copies of each update to PoIT are still printed and archived at the [[National Library of Sweden]], [[Lund University#Library|Lund University library]] and the [[Swedish Companies Registration Office]].

==History and profile==
[[File:Poit.nr15.1645-04-09.jpg|thumb|left|''Post- och Inrikes Tidningar'' no. 15, 9 April 1645.]]
The newspaper was founded as the '''''Ordinari Post Tijdender''''' ({{lit|Regular Mail Times}}) in 1645<ref name=ne/><ref name=phd>{{cite web|author=Christoffer Rydland|title=Aspects of Cooperation and Corporate Governance in the Swedish Regional Newspaper Industry|url=http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:622231/FULLTEXT01.pdf|publisher=Stockholm School of Economics|accessdate=16 January 2015|format=PhD Thesis|year=2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150117020009/http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2%3A622231/FULLTEXT01.pdf|archivedate=17 January 2015}}</ref><ref name="Economist2010">{{cite news|title=From Valuable Brands and Games Directors Play to Bail-Outs and Bad Boys|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5E2KAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT7|date=23 July 2010|newspaper=The Economist|page=7|isbn = 9781847652683}}</ref> by [[Monarch of Sweden|Queen]] [[Christina of Sweden|Christina]] and [[Lord High Chancellor of Sweden|Chancellor]] [[Axel Oxenstierna]]. The paper was published weekly during early years.<ref name=phd/> Nine years earlier, the royal postal agency (''[[Kungliga Postverket]]'') had been established and now all [[postmaster]]s in the country were required to submit reports of information they heard, and the newspaper was then distributed to public notice boards throughout the country.<ref>[http://www.postmuseum.posten.se/historia/historia.html Swedish Mail Museum]</ref> In 1791, [[Gustav III of Sweden|Gustav III]] designated the [[Swedish Academy]] to distribute and publish the newspaper, a practice that continues today. In 1821 it merged with the '''''Inrikes Tidningar''''' ({{lit|Domestic Times}}) to form the '''''Post- och Inrikes Tidningar'''''.<ref>[http://www.btj.se/ikoner/arkiv/2000/pdf/00_6.pdf Arkiv] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070128232959/http://www.btj.se/ikoner/arkiv/2000/pdf/00_6.pdf |date=28 January 2007 }} Btj.se</ref>

In the 17th and 18th centuries, it was the leading news source in the country, but by 1922, under competition from commercial papers, it had been reduced to publishing government, corporate, and legal announcements.

As of 2000, ''Post- och Inrikes Tidningar'' is published online at PointLex, and all editions from 1771 to 1860 are available at [[Project Tiden]].<ref name="tiden">{{cite web|year=2001|url=http://tiden.kb.se/News_archive.htm|title=Tiden Nordic Digital Newspaper Archive|work=Project Tiden|accessdate=6 July 2007|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070609080942/http://tiden.kb.se/News_archive.htm|archivedate=9 June 2007}}</ref> The current director of the publication is [[Horace Engdahl]], previously the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy.

==See also==
* [[List of newspapers by date]]
* {{lang|sv|[[Swedish Code of Statutes|Svensk författningssamling]]}} (SFS)

==References==
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<ref name=ne>{{cite encyclopedia|last1=Oscarsson|first1=Ingemar|last2=Helmersson|first2=Dicte|encyclopedia=[[Nationalencyklopedin]]|title=Post- och Inrikes Tidningar |url=http://www.ne.se/post-och-inrikes-tidningar|accessdate=12 May 2011|language=Swedish }} {{subscription required}}</ref>

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==External links==
{{src|sv:Post- och Inrikes Tidningar|''Post- och Inrikes Tidningar''}}
* [https://poit.bolagsverket.se/poit-app/ Official site] {{in lang|sv}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140904194418/http://www.nbcnews.com/id/16993434/ World's oldest newspaper goes digital]
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