Hufvudstadsbladet

Hufvudstadsbladet was founded by in 1864,{{cite book|title=The Europa World Year Book 2003|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XLvU9lroRuUC&pg=PA1613|access-date=20 November 2014|date=2003|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=1-85743-227-4|page=1613}}{{cite book|author1=Bandle, Oskar |author2=Braunmuller, Kurt |author3=Jahr, Ernst-Hakon |author4=Karker, Allan |author5=Naumann, Hans-Peter |author6=Teleman, Ulf |title=The Nordic Languages 2: An International Handbook of the History of the North Germanic Languages|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6b7WwBC5tRAC&pg=PA1487|access-date=24 November 2014|year=2005|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=978-3-11-017149-5|page=1487}} and the first edition was published on 5 December the same year. The founder was August Schauman.{{cite journal|author1=Fellman, Susanna |author2=Leino-Kaukiainen, Pirkko |title=Business or Culture? Family Firms in the Finnish Media Business in the 20th Century|journal=Scandinavian Economic History Review|year=2006|volume=54|issue=3 |page=259|doi=10.1080/03585520600973618|s2cid=154070344}} During the late 19th century, the paper was the highest-circulation newspaper in Finland.

In 1920 the company Hufvudstadsbladets Förlag och Tryckeri AB was founded to operate the newspaper. The company's principal owner and chief executive officer was Amos Anderson, who would also serve as editor-in-chief of the newspaper between 1922 and 1936. Konstsamfundet (approx. The Art Foundation), founded by Andersson in 1940, took over ownership of Hufvudstadsbladet in 1945, and has wholly owned the newspaper since. Anna Kaila Snellman, a contributor of the paper, visited Italy in the late 1930s as a guest of the Fascist government, and the paper was asked by the Italians to publish articles in favor of the Fascist rule.{{cite journal|author=Ferrarini, Fabio |title='Mediterraneo baltico': Italian Fascist propaganda in Finland (1933–9)|journal=Modern Italy|year=2020|volume=25|issue=4|page=398 |doi=10.1017/mit.2020.51|s2cid=224888138 }}

Hufvudstadsbladet has an independent and liberal stance.{{cite web|title=Hufvudstadsbladet|url=http://www.midas-press.org/Documents/Hufvudstadsbladet.pdf|publisher=European Association of Daily Newspapers in Minority and Regional Languages|access-date=20 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141220211537/http://www.midas-press.org/Documents/Hufvudstadsbladet.pdf|archive-date=20 December 2014|url-status=dead}} It is owned by Foreningen Konstsamfundet Association and is published by the KSF Media Group.{{cite journal|author=Jyrkiäinen, Jyrki |title=Newspaper Chains in Finland 1993–2010|journal=Journal of Media Business Studies|date=2009|volume=9|issue=2|pages=7–25|doi=10.1080/16522354.2012.11073541|s2cid=167749530}}{{cite web|title=Hufvudstadsbladet|url=http://www.publicitas.com/en/spain/media-solutions/factsheet/?PARAM1=HH1HH2#.VJXO6cAgEc|work=Publicitas|access-date=20 December 2014|archive-date=20 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141220212336/http://www.publicitas.com/en/spain/media-solutions/factsheet/?PARAM1=HH1HH2#.VJXO6cAgEc|url-status=dead}} The group also publishes Västra Nyland, Östra Nyland, Hangötidningen, Borgåbladet and Loviisan Sanomat.

One of the significant interviews published in Hufvudstadsbladet was with the Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme in December 1984.{{cite news|title=Swedish Daily Calls on Palme To Resign as Prime Minister |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/122351038|access-date=10 October 2021|work=The New York Times|agency=AP|date=9 December 1984|location=Stockholm|id={{ProQuest|196403}}}} In response to a question Palme stated that Swedish people would choose the Social Democratic Party in the next election because it represented the traditional policy of neutrality unlike the other parties in Sweden. His remarks caused tension in Sweden, and the Swedish paper, Svenska Dagbladet, republished the interview and argued that Olof Palme should resign due to his answer.

In the Spring of 2004 Hufvudstadsbladet changed its format from broadsheet to tabloid.{{cite web|title=From Broadsheet to Tabloid|url=http://www.hssaatio.fi/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/tabtiivis-eng.pdf|publisher=University of Tampere|access-date=19 December 2014|date=January 2014}} In the same year it became Finland's tenth highest circulating newspaper.

In 2006 Hufvudstadsbladet was named Europe's Best Newspaper and awarded European Newspaper Award in the category of local paper plus.{{cite web|title=Europe's most innovative newspaper 2006: De Morgen|url=http://www.oberauer.com/pressenews/europes-most-innovative-newspaper-2006-de-morgen/|work=Oberauer|access-date=6 March 2015|date=17 November 2006|archive-date=2 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402112335/http://www.oberauer.com/pressenews/europes-most-innovative-newspaper-2006-de-morgen/|url-status=dead}}

A weekly supplement called Vision (television and radio programming information) was distributed with the newspaper on Thursdays. From August 2006 to May 2010 HBL also published a full-colour weekly magazine called Volt with focus on lifestyle, features and photography. During its existence Volt was awarded more than 30 design prizes, much thanks to the visionary skills of AD Jesper Vuori.{{citation needed|date=February 2014}}

In January 2014 Hufvudstadsbladet started a digital evening edition, HBL Kväll, which is updated daily at 4 pm.{{cite news|author=Ørhøj, Lars |title=Record Readership for Digital Evening Paper|url=http://blog.visiolink.com/record-readership-for-digital-evening-paper|access-date=7 January 2015|work=Visiolink|date=31 January 2014}}

The newspaper is a member of MIDAS (European Association of Daily Newspapers in Minority and Regional Languages).{{cite web|title=Members|url=https://www.midas-press.org/home/members/|publisher=Midas|access-date=11 August 2024}}

In 1900 Hufvudstadsbladet had a circulation of 17,500 copies.{{cite book|author1=McRae, Kenneth Douglas |author2=Helander, Mika |author3=Luoma, Sari |title=Conflict and Compromise in Multilingual Societies: Finland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s8eNDR6YDlwC&pg=PA315|year=1999|publisher=Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press|isbn=0-88920-347-4|page=315}} However, in the 1920s its circulation fell behind Helsingin Sanomat and the gap between them continued in favor of the latter.

In 1996 the circulation of Hufvudstadsbladet was 59,206 copies.{{cite web|title=Swedish in Finland|url=http://www.uoc.edu/euromosaic/web/document/suec/an/e1/e1.html|work=Universitat Oberta de Catalunya|access-date=7 January 2015|date=17 April 1998}} The paper had a circulation of 36,719 copies in 2014.{{cite web|title=Circulation Statistics 2014|url=http://mediaauditfinland.fi/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Levikkitilasto20141.pdf|work=Levikintarkastus Oy – Finnish Audit Bureau of Circulations|access-date=30 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150530203755/http://mediaauditfinland.fi/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Levikkitilasto20141.pdf|archive-date=30 May 2015|url-status=dead}}

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• [http://www.hbl.fi/ Hufvudstadsbladet's website] (in Swedish)
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20071223141710/http://www.editorial-design.com/06/award06e/index.html Office for Newspaper Design]

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