Tiedonantaja Explained

Tiedonantaja
Type:Monthly newspaper
Format:tabloid
Publisher:Kustannusyhtiö TA-Tieto Oy
Chiefeditor:Petra Packalén
Political:Marxist
Language:Finnish
Headquarters:Helsinki
Circulation:6,000 (2010)
Sister Newspapers:Arbetartidningen Enhet 1974–1988
Issn:0356-1631
Website:tiedonantaja.fi

Tiedonantaja ("Informant") is a Finnish leftist monthly newspaper published in Helsinki, Finland. It is the party organ of the new Communist Party of Finland (SKP).

Tiedonantaja's current editor-in-chief is Petra Packalén[1] who was preceded by Marko Korvela (2012-2018) and Erkki Susi (1983-2012).

History and profile

Tiedonantaja was founded in 1968 as the paper of the taistoist minority faction of the Communist Party of Finland[2] until the opposition was expelled in the mid-1980s. During the 1970s and in the first half of the 1980s Kansan Uutiset represented the moderates in the party whereas Tiedonantaja was the organ of the doctrinaire faction.[3] In the late 1980s, the paper was also the organ of the electoral front, Democratic Alternative.

Tiedonantaja was first published irregularly by the Uusimaa district organisation of the SKP. It became a nationwide publication after other taistoist districts joined, and in 1970 the paper began to be published on a weekly basis. In 1972, Tiedonantaja was published three times a week and from 1973 onwards, four times a week. The paper reduced back to its weekly format in 1990. Tiedonantaja became a monthly newspaper in 2018.

In the 1970s, Tiedonantaja had a circulation of about 30,000. Its circulation was 6,000 copies in 2010.[4] Over 50,000 people sent May Day and new year's greetings, which were published in the special editions.

Notes and References

  1. News: Petra Packalén on valittu Tiedonantajan uudeksi päätoimittajaksi. Tiedonantaja. 17 March 2018. fi. 22 September 2023.
  2. Book: Esko Salminen. The Silenced Media The Propaganda War between Russia and the West in Northern Europe. 1999. Palgrave Macmillan. London. 41. 978-0-230-38992-2. 10.1057/9780230389922.
  3. Book: Eric Solsten. Sandra W. Meditz. Finland: A Country Study. 1988. GPO for the Library of Congress. Washington, DC. 978-1490435749. http://countrystudies.us/finland/127.htm. The Communist Party.
  4. http://www.tiedonantaja.fi/ilmoitukset Ilmoitukset