On Thursday, Dagens Nyheter's management announced that journalists who have lost working time for two months will return to full-time work on May 25. The same goes for journalists at Dagens Industri. The state severance aid presupposes suffering from the corona crisis and both companies go too well to avail the aid.
- We will not seek support. We went down during working hours as a precautionary measure, says DN's editor-in-chief Peter Wolodarski to Dagens Media.
Since DN unlocked its site, 150,000 new readers have registered and about 20,000 of these have been recruited as new digital subscribers, writes Dagens Media, and Dagens Industri has set a record with 111,000 subscribers.
Other Bonnier News-owned newspapers such as Expressen and Sydsvenskan have reportedly submitted an application for support to Dagens Media.