Ilta-Sanomat
{{Short description|Finnish tabloid newspaper}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2015}}
{{Infobox newspaper
| logo = Ilta-Sanomat wordmark.svg
| image = Ilta-Sanomat front page.jpg
| type = Daily newspaper
| format = Tabloid
| foundation = {{start date and age|1932}}
| owners = Sanoma
| headquarters = Helsinki
| chiefeditor = Tapio Sadeoja
| circulation = 55,000
| circulation_date = 2024
| sister newspapers = Helsingin Sanomat
| website = {{Official URL}}
}}
{{langnf|fi|Ilta-Sanomat|the evening news}} is one of Finland's two prominent tabloid-size evening newspapers and the largest paper in the country. Its counterpart and biggest rival is Iltalehti.
According to the National Media Research done in 2019, Ilta-Sanomat is also the biggest digital media in Finland and reaches about 2.5 million Finns.{{Cite web|url=https://www.is.fi/kotimaa/art-2000006018773.html|title=KMT osoittaa: Ilta-Sanomat on Suomen suurin uutismedia|date=2019-03-01|website=Ilta-Sanomat|language=fi|access-date=2020-03-06}}
Johanna Lahti has been the editor-in-chief of Ilta-Sanomat since November 2019, when the previous editor-in-chief Tapio Sadeoja retired after 38 years in office.{{Cite web|url=https://www.is.fi/kotimaa/art-2000006292713.html|title=Suomen suurimman uutismedian pomo vaihtuu! IS:n päätoimittaja Tapio Sadeoja eläkkeelle: "Vierastan missiojournalismia"|date=2019-11-01|website=Ilta-Sanomat|language=fi|access-date=2020-03-06}}
History and profile
The paper was established in 1932 as the afternoon edition of Helsingin Sanomat.{{cite book|editor=Georgios Terzis|title=European Media Governance: National and Regional Dimensions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=68nbtqst-CsC&pg=PA100|access-date=19 November 2014|year=2007|publisher=Intellect Books|isbn=978-1-84150-192-5|page=98}}{{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=10 July 2003|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-85743-227-5|page=1613}}{{cite web|title=SanomaWSOY Corporation - Company Profile|url=http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/history2/67/SanomaWSOY-Corporation.html|work=Reference for Business|access-date=9 April 2015}} In 1949 it became a separate newspaper and was named Ilta-Sanomat.
Its sister paper is Helsingin Sanomat and both papers are part of Sanoma. Ilta-Sanomat is published in tabloid format six times per week.{{cite web|title=Circulation Statistics 2011|url=http://mediaauditfinland.fi/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Circulations2011.pdf|work=Media Audit Finland|access-date=13 December 2014|archive-date=25 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190725045140/http://mediaauditfinland.fi/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Circulations2011.pdf|url-status=dead}} The paper has an independent political stance.{{cite web|title=Finland Press|url=http://www.pressreference.com/Fa-Gu/Finland.html|work=Press Reference|access-date=6 April 2015}}
Circulation
The circulation of Ilta-Sanomat was 212,854 copies in 1993, making it the second largest newspaper in Finland after its sister paper Helsingin Sanomat.{{cite book|author=Bernard A. Cook|title=Europe Since 1945: An Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ox_gXq2jpdYC&pg=PA384|access-date=20 November 2014|year=2001|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-8153-4057-7|page=384}} In the period of 1995-1996 the paper had a circulation of 213,600 copies.{{cite book|title=Media Policy: Convergence, Concentration & Commerce|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k6HU9WdjwgkC&pg=PA7|access-date=3 February 2014|date=24 September 1998|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=978-1-4462-6524-6|page=10}}
Ilta-Sanomat had a circulation of 215,000 copies in 2000.{{cite news|title=Top 100 dailies 2000|url=http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/news/49276/|access-date=2 March 2015|work=campaign|date=16 November 2001}} Its circulation was 218,829 copies in 2001, making it the second most read paper in the country.{{cite book|editor1=Mary Kelly|editor2=Gianpietro Mazzoleni|editor3=Denis McQuail|title=The Media in Europe: The Euromedia Handbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0moFhDLjTiwC&pg=PA62|access-date=13 December 2014|date=31 January 2004|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=978-0-7619-4132-3|page=62}}{{cite journal|author=Kaarina Nikunen|title=Losing my profession: Age, experience and expertise in the changing newsrooms|journal=Journalism|date=2013|volume=15|issue=7|pages=868–888|url=http://www.uta.fi/cmt/en/research/comet/projects/completed/lamaeng/Losing%20my%20profession.full.pdf|access-date=10 February 2015|publisher=Sage Publications|doi=10.1177/1464884913508610|s2cid=144286660}} In 2002 it had a circulation of 214,610 copies on weekdays and 243,443 copies in weekends. It was again the second best selling newspaper with the paper-based circulation on a declining trajectory at 205,000 copies in 2003.{{cite web|title=World Press Trends|url=http://www.wan-press.org/ecrire/upload/wpt2004.pdf|work=World Association of Newspapers|access-date=8 February 2015|location=Paris|date=2004|archive-date=8 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150208082604/http://www.wan-press.org/ecrire/upload/wpt2004.pdf|url-status=dead}} Next year the circulation of the paper was down to 201,000 copies.{{cite web|title=Media pluralism in the Member States of the European Union|url=http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/media_taskforce/doc/pluralism/media_pluralism_swp_en.pdf|work=Commission of the European Communities|access-date=27 March 2015|location=Brussels|date=16 January 2007}}
The circulation continued to fall, to 195,673 copies in 2005, 186,462 copies in 2006,{{cite web|title=Top ten daily newspapers by circulation 2006|url=http://www.nordicom.gu.se/sites/default/files/medieforskning-statistik/1127_1060_topten_dailies_2006.xls|work=Nordicom|access-date=8 March 2015}} and 176,531 copies in 2007.{{cite web|title=The Nordic Media Market|url=http://www.nordicom.gu.se/sites/default/files/publikationer-hela-pdf/nmt09_001-194.pdf|work=Nordicom|access-date=7 March 2015|date=2009|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304191531/http://www.nordicom.gu.se/sites/default/files/publikationer-hela-pdf/nmt09_001-194.pdf|url-status=dead}} The circulation of Ilta-Sanomat was 161,615 copies in 2008 and 152,948 copies in 2009.{{cite web|title=National newspapers total circulation|url=http://www.ifabc.org/site/assets/media/National-Newspapers_total-circulation_IFABC_09-07-12.xls|work=International Federation of Audit Bureaux of Circulations|access-date=5 December 2014|archive-date=6 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141206234846/http://www.ifabc.org/site/assets/media/National-Newspapers_total-circulation_IFABC_09-07-12.xls|url-status=dead}} It was 150,351 copies in 2010 and 143,321 copies in 2011.
In 2010 the online version of Ilta-Sanomat was the second most visited website in Finland in 2010 and was visited by 1,823,956 people per week.{{cite web|author1=Kari Karppinen|author2=Hannu Nieminen|author3=Anna-Laura Markkanen|title=High Professional Ethos in a Small, Concentrated Media Market|url=http://blogs.helsinki.fi/kekarppi/files/2014/01/05FINLANDkorr1.pdf|work=Blogipalvelut|access-date=29 December 2014|date=2014}}
Editors-in-chief
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- Johanna Lahti 2019–
- Reijo Ruokanen ?–2010{{cite news|title=Reijo Ruokanen appointed editor-in-chief|url=http://www.dgap.de/dgap/News/corporate/reijo-ruokanen-appointed-editorinchief-talouselaemae-magazine/?newsID=634346|access-date=20 November 2014|work=DGAP|date=1 July 2010}}
- Tapio Sadeoja 2007–2019
- Hannu Savola 2006–2007
- Antti-Pekka Pietilä 2003–2006
- Vesa-Pekka Koljonen 1984–2003
- Martti Huhtamäki 1974–1983
- Olavi Aarrejärvi 1966–1973
- Heikki Tikkanen 1961–1966
- Teo Mertanen 1956–1961
- Eero Petäjäniemi 1949–1956
- Yrjö Niiniluoto 1938–1949 (also the editor-in-chief Helsingin Sanomat)
- Eljas Erkko 1932–1938 (also the editor-in-chief Helsingin Sanomat)
See also
References
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