Edasi
{{Short description|Estonian newspaper}}
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| foundation = 1 May 1948
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Edasi ({{langx|et|Forward}}) was a newspaper published in Tartu, Estonia. The paper was published with this name between 1948 and 1990.{{Cite web|title=160 Aastat Postimehega|url=https://www.postimees.ee/160-aastat-postimeest/|access-date=3 June 2024|website=www.postimees.ee}}
History and profile
The paper was the successor of Postimees of which the name was changed to Edasi on 1 May 1948 to make the paper more Soviet. It worked, and the paper became a true Soviet publication. Its headquarters was in Tartu.{{cite book|author1=Stefanie Averbeck|author2=Stefan Wehmeier|title=Kommunikationswissenschaft und Public Relations in Osteuropa: Arbeitsberichte|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CEeuCXV4DFAC&pg=PA81|year=2002|publisher=Leipziger Universitätsverlag|isbn=978-3-935693-67-7|page=81|location=Leipzig}}{{cite journal|author=Peeter Vihalemm|title=Development of Media Research in Estonia|doi=10.1515/nor-2017-0357|journal=Nordicom Review|date=February 2001|volume=22|issue=2|pages=79–92|s2cid=54745912|doi-access=free}} The paper was controlled by the Tartu Communist Party.{{cite book|author=Toivo Miljan|title=Historical Dictionary of Estonia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xeXwMDZbTBoC&pg=PA434|year=2004|page=467|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-6571-6|location=Lanham, MD}} However, it was one of the Estonian media outlets not used by the Soviet officials to control Estonians.
Edasi was first a local paper, but later it became a national publication. During the period between 1955 and 1979 when Estonia was subject to the mental Sovietization it was one of the publications which contained political humor.{{cite journal|author=Maarja Lõhmus|title=Political correctness and political humour in Soviet Estonia and beyond|journal=Folklore|date=January 2013
|volume=1|pages=139–158|doi=10.7592/ep.1.lohmus|isbn=9789949490226|doi-access=free}} At the same time the paper also published travel stories and literary reviews.{{cite journal|author1=Epp Lauk|author2=Tiiu Kreegipuu|title=Was it all Pure Propaganda? Journalistic Practices of "Silent Resistance' in Soviet Estonia Journalism|journal=Acta Historica Tallinnensia|doi=10.3176/hist.2010.1.08|doi-access=free
|year=2010|volume=15|page=167 }}
On 1 January 1991, Edasi regained its original name, Postimees.{{cite book|author1=Halliki Harro-Loit|author2=Anu Pallas|editor1=Halliki Harro-Loit|editor2=Katrin Kello|title=The Curving Mirror of Time|date=2009|publisher=University of Tartu Press
|isbn=978-9949-32-259-6|chapter-url=http://www.oapen.org/download?type=document&docid=446135|chapter=Temporality and commemoration in Estonian dailies|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924054714/http://www.oapen.org/download?type=document&docid=446135|archive-date=24 September 2015|page=20}}
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Category:1948 establishments in Estonia
Category:1990 disestablishments in Estonia
Category:Defunct newspapers published in Estonia
Category:Eastern Bloc mass media
Category:Estonian-language newspapers