Ralf Pittelkow
Ralf Pittelkow is a Danish publisher of the extreme right online news site Den Korte Avis.
From 1973 to 1992, he was assistant professor and associate professor at the Department of Comparative Literature at University of Copenhagen. For 17 years, until the end of 2011, he was a political commentator at the newspaper Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten. Together with his wife, he founded the news site Den Korte Avis in 2012 where he maintains a position as editor-in-chief.
The credibility of Den Korte Avis is debated. In 2014, an article published by the Danish Union of Journalists said that Den Korte Avis damaged the reputation of journalists and argued that it, despite its name, was not a real newspaper, as it often copied from other sources and misrepresented news stories. In December 2016, numerous advertisers, such as McDonald's, IKEA, Nordea, Alm. Brand, Doctors Without Borders and others, pulled their ads from the site, due to claims that several of the news stories publicized on the site were "lies and fabrications".
From 1973 to 1992, he was assistant professor and associate professor at the Department of Comparative Literature at University of Copenhagen. For 17 years, until the end of 2011, he was a political commentator at the newspaper Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten. Together with his wife, he founded the news site Den Korte Avis in 2012 where he maintains a position as editor-in-chief.
The credibility of Den Korte Avis is debated. In 2014, an article published by the Danish Union of Journalists said that Den Korte Avis damaged the reputation of journalists and argued that it, despite its name, was not a real newspaper, as it often copied from other sources and misrepresented news stories. In December 2016, numerous advertisers, such as McDonald's, IKEA, Nordea, Alm. Brand, Doctors Without Borders and others, pulled their ads from the site, due to claims that several of the news stories publicized on the site were "lies and fabrications".
