Itä-Savo Explained

Type:Daily newspaper
Format:Berliner
Language:Finnish
Headquarters:Savonlinna
Oclc: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

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

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]

Notes and References

  1. News: Itä-Savo täyttää sata vuotta. MTV Uutiset. 4 July 2007. fi. 17 September 2023.
  2. A. Gayle Waldrop. The Daily Newspaper Press in Finland. 10.1177/107769905703400208. Journalism Quarterly. June 1957. 34. 2. 232.
  3. Web site: Finnish publisher chooses Anygraaf ad, circulation and distribution systems. Anygraaf Oy. 4 March 2015. dead. 20 January 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150120081603/http://www.anygraaf.com/main/rightcol_eng/finnish_publisher_chooses_anygraaf_ad_circulation_and_distribution_systems_1394.html.
  4. Web site: A Small World – Role Models In Scandinavia. Press Business. 4 March 2015. 2007. 6 February 2015. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150206175031/http://www.jmg.gu.se/digitalAssets/1294/1294092_englishpaper--tabloidization-js2.pdf.
  5. News: Itä-Savo-lehden päätoimittajaksi Tiina Ojutkangas. Turun Sanomat. 23 October 2012. fi. 17 September 2023.
  6. Web site: Circulation Statistics 2013. Media Audit Finland. 4 March 2015. 23 June 2014. 29 March 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170329225311/http://mediaauditfinland.fi/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Circulations2013.pdf. dead.
  7. Web site: Report. Minttumaaria Jaakkola. Salla Laasonen. Timo Vuorisalo. Safeguarding the Saimaa ringed seal. 4 March 2015. University of Turku. 2014. 3 March 2016. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160303235112/http://www.utu.fi/fi/yksikot/ffrc/tutkimus/hankkeet/Documents/LIFE_Delivery5_2014_UTU.pdf.