Itä-Savo
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Berliner |
| Founded | 1907 |
| Language | Finnish |
| Headquarters | Savonlinna |
| OCLC number | 751757703 |
| Website | Itä-Savo |
Itä-Savo is a Finnish language daily newspaper published in Savonlinna, Finland. It has been in circulation since 1907.
History and profile[edit]
The paper was established in 1907 under the title of Savolainen and was a media outlet of the Old Finns Party.[1] It was renamed as Itä-Savo following the Independence of Finland in 1917.[1]
Itä-Savo was one of the papers owned by the Agrarian Party in the 1950s.[2] Since 2002 the paper has no political affiliation.[1]
As of 2007 the publisher of Itä-Savo was a company with the same name which was part of the Länsi-Savo Corporation.[1] Its publisher is Etelä-Savon Viestintä Oy, a subsidiary of Länsi-Savo Corporation, and it has its headquarters in Savonlinna.[3] The paper is published in Berliner format.[4]
Kyösti Pienimäki was the editor-in-chief of Itä-Savo in 2007.[1] Tuomo Yli-Huttula served in the post until October 2012 when Tiina Ojutkangas succeeded him as editor-in-chief of the paper.[5]
Circulation[edit]
Itä-Savo sold 10,094 copies in 1957.[2] Its circulation was 18,143 copies, and it had nearly 49,000 readers in 2007.[1] The paper had a circulation of 14,834 copies in 2013.[6] The number of its readers was 35,000 in 2014.[7]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f "Itä-Savo täyttää sata vuotta". MTV Uutiset (in Finnish). 4 July 2007. Retrieved 17 September 2023.
- ^ a b A. Gayle Waldrop (June 1957). "The Daily Newspaper Press in Finland". Journalism Quarterly. 34 (2): 232. doi:10.1177/107769905703400208.
- ^ "Finnish publisher chooses Anygraaf ad, circulation and distribution systems". Anygraaf Oy. Archived from the original on 20 January 2015. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
- ^ "A Small World – Role Models In Scandinavia" (PDF). Press Business. 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 February 2015. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
- ^ "Itä-Savo-lehden päätoimittajaksi Tiina Ojutkangas". Turun Sanomat (in Finnish). 23 October 2012. Retrieved 17 September 2023.
- ^ "Circulation Statistics 2013" (PDF). Media Audit Finland. 23 June 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 March 2017. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
- ^ Minttumaaria Jaakkola; Salla Laasonen; Timo Vuorisalo (2014). "Safeguarding the Saimaa ringed seal" (PDF). University of Turku. Archived from the original (Report) on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 4 March 2015.