Iltalehti

Iltalehti was established in 1980{{cite book|author=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}} as the afternoon edition of the newspaper Uusi Suomi.{{citation needed|date=June 2011}} The Helsinki-based Alma Media is the owner of Iltalehti.{{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}} Its sister newspapers are Aamulehti and Kauppalehti. Iltalehti is published in tabloid format{{cite journal|author=Kaarina Nikunen|title=Losing my profession: Age, experience and expertise in the changing newsrooms|journal=Journalism|volume=15|issue=7|pages=868–888|date=2013|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 }} six times per week.{{cite web|title=Circulation Statistics 2011|url=http://mediaauditfinland.fi/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Circulations2011.pdf|publisher=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}}

Petri Hakala served as the editor-in-chief of Iltalehti. On 1 September 2010 Panu Pokkinen was appointed to the post.{{cite news|title=Panu Pokkinen appointed editor-in-chief|url=http://www.almamedia.com/press_room/releases/2010/#panu-pokkinen-appointed-editor-in-chief-news-at-iltalehti|access-date=20 November 2014|work=Alma Media|date=29 July 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141111185230/http://www.almamedia.com/press_room/releases/2010/#panu-pokkinen-appointed-editor-in-chief-news-at-iltalehti|archive-date=11 November 2014|url-status=dead}} His term ended in December 2013 when Petri Hakala was reappointed to the post.{{cite news|title=Olli-Pekka Behm appointed Executive Editor-in-Chief of Satakunnan Kansa|url=http://globenewswire.com/news-release/2013/10/11/579868/0/en/Alma-Media-Corporation-Olli-Pekka-Behm-appointed-Executive-Editor-in-Chief-of-Satakunnan-Kansa.html|access-date=19 December 2014|work=Globe Newswire|date=11 October 2013}}

The circulation of Iltalehti was 105,059 copies in 1993.{{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}} The 2001 circulation of the paper was 134,777 copies, making it the fourth most read newspaper in Finland.{{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}} In 2002 Iltalehti had a circulation of 132,836 copies on weekdays. The circulation of the paper was 126,000 copies in 2003, making it the fourth best selling newspaper in the country.{{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}}{{cite journal|author=Mervi Pantti|title=Masculine tears, feminine tears – and crocodile tears|journal=Journalism|date=2005|volume=6|issue=3|pages=357–377|doi=10.1177/1464884905054065|hdl=10138/230083|s2cid=145487550 |url=https://helda.helsinki.fi/bitstream/10138/230083/1/Masculine_tears_feminine_tears.pdf}} The circulation was 130,000 copies in 2004,{{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}}130,290 copies in 2005{{cite web|author1=Sampsa Saikkonen|author2=Paula Häkämies|title=Mapping Digital Media:Finland|url=http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/sites/default/files/mapping-digital-media-finland-20140214.pdf|work=Open Society Foundations|access-date=23 April 2015|format=Report|date=5 January 2014}} and 133,007 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}}

Its circulation was 131,150 copies in 2007. In 2008 Iltalehti was the third largest newspaper in Finland.{{cite web|url=http://www.levikintarkastus.fi/levikintarkastus/tilastot/Circulations2008.pdf|title=Circulations 2008|work=Finnish Audit Bureau of Circulations|access-date=30 June 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720190715/http://www.levikintarkastus.fi/levikintarkastus/tilastot/Circulations2008.pdf|archive-date=20 July 2011|df=dmy-all}} Of tabloid newspapers, the paper had a market share of 40% and its biggest (and only) rival Ilta-Sanomat had a market share of 60% in 2008. Its circulation was 122,548 copies in 2008 and it dropped to 112,778 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 107,052 copies in 2010 and 102,124 copies in 2011. It fell to 91,219 copies in 2012 and to 78,617 copies in 2013.{{cite web|title=Circulation Statistics 2013|url=http://mediaauditfinland.fi/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Circulations2013.pdf|work=Levikintarkastus Oy - Finnish Audit Bureau of Circulations|access-date=12 February 2015|date=23 June 2014|archive-date=19 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150319214200/http://mediaauditfinland.fi/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Circulations2013.pdf|url-status=dead}}

In 2010 the online version of Iltalehti was the most visited website in Finland and was visited by 1,937,156 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|publisher=Blogipalvelut|access-date=29 December 2014|date=2014}}

In May 2015 it was the 6th the most popular website in the country according to Alexa.{{cite web|url=http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/iltalehti.fi|title=Alexa siteinfo|work=Alexa|access-date=1 December 2014|archive-date=13 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150213183507/http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/iltalehti.fi|url-status=dead}}

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