Itä-Häme (newspaper)

Itä-Häme
TypeNewspaper
FormatTabloid
Owner(s)ESS
Editor-in-chiefJari Niemi
Founded1927; 97 years ago (1927)
LanguageFinnish
Circulation10,427 (2011)
WebsiteItä-Häme

Itä-Häme is a morning tabloid newspaper published in Heinola in the Itä-Häme, Finland.[1]

History and profile

Itä-Häme was established 1927 in Sysmä. The newspaper is headquartered in Lahti. It is part of the ESS company.[2] Its chief editor is Jari Niemi. The paper is published six times per week.[1] Its format was broadsheet until 2005 when the paper began to be published in tabloid format.[1] It is the first Finnish newspaper which institutionalized the post of civic reporter in 2004.[1]

The circulation of Itä-Häme was 13,900 copies.[3] It was 12,000 copies in 2006.[1] The paper had a circulation of 10,719 copies in 2010 and 10,427 copies in 2011.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Laura Ruusunoksa (3 May 2006). "Public Journalism and Public Sphere(s)" (PDF). University of Tampere. Archived from the original (Conference paper) on 10 February 2015. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
  2. ^ a b Katja Lehtisaari; et al. (2012). "Media Convergence and Business Models: Responses of Finnish Daily Newspapers" (Research Report). University of Helsinki. Retrieved 6 April 2015.
  3. ^ Facta 2001 part 7, page 1, finnish