It is published in Stockholm and aspires to full national and international coverage, and is widely considered Sweden's newspaper of record.

[2] In the 1890s, Wall left Dagens Nyheter and soon after, the paper became the organ of the Liberal Party.

In 1996, the entire enterprise moved to its current location on Gjörwellsgatan, which is adjacent to the old tower.

[16] In 2013, the print edition of Dagens Nyheter had a circulation of 282,800 copies, reaching an approximate 758,000 persons every day.

The web edition had on average roughly 1.5 million unique visitors per week during 2013.