Etelä-Suomen Sanomat

Etelä-Suomen Sanomat (meaning South Finland News in English; nickname Etlari) is a Finnish daily newspaper published in Lahti, Finland. It is the leading paper in its metropolitan area.^[1][2]

Etelä-Suomen Sanomat

Type	Daily newspaper
Owner(s)	Mediatalo ESA
Editor	Markus Pirttijoki
Founded	1914; 110 years ago (1914)
Language	Finnish
Headquarters	Lahti, Finland
Circulation	51,537 (2013)
ISSN	0359-5056
Website	ess.fi

History and profile

Etelä-Suomen Sanomat began publishing in 1914.^[3][4] The paper originated from the prior Lahden Lehti (1900–1909) and Lahden Sanomat (1909–1914) newspapers.^[3][5] The paper has a liberal editorial stance.^[4]

Etelä-Suomen Sanomat was provincial newspaper, which for a long time had a traditional orientation, but became more cosmopolitan and modern under Heikki Hakala, editor-in-chief from 1997 to 2014. Since than it cooperates closely with the regional papers Keskisuomalainen, Savon Sanomat and Karjalainen. Their collaboration also extends to sharing articles and entire pages. The paper switched to tabloid format in 2016.^[6]

In autumn 2016 Keskisuomalainen took over the majority stake in Etelä-Suomen Sanomat publishing company ESA.^[6]

Circulation

The circulation of Etelä-Suomen Sanomat began to grow during the 1940s.^[4] Its circulation was 67,185 copies in 2001.^[7] The 2004 circulation of the paper was 62,155 copies.^[8] The same year the paper had a readership of 145,000.^[8] The paper had a circulation of 60,889 copies.^[9] In 2007 the circulation of the paper was 61,003 copies.^[10]

In 2009 its circulation was 60,420 copies.^[11] Its circulation was 56,616 copies in 2011.^[12] The circulation of the paper was 51,537 copies in 2013.^[13]

Chief editors

• Oskar Marjanen 1914
• Kaarlo Kytömaa 1914–1915
• Jaakko Tervo 1915–1920
• Jalmari Niemi 1920–1927
• William Ilmoni 1927–1932
• Frans Keränen 1932–1962
• Tauno Lahtinen 1962–1983
• Olli Järvinen 1962–1973
• Eeva Rissanen 1972–1986
• Kauko Mäenpää 1984–1999
• Pentti Vuorio 1986–1995
• Heikki Hakala 1997–2014
• Perttu Kauppinen 2015–2018
• Markus Pirttijoki 2019–

References

1. Etelä-Suomen Sanomat mukaan lehtikoalitioon Archived 10 October 2009 at the Wayback Machine, Keskisuomalainen (in Finnish), 24 April 2009
2. Europa World Year Book 1 p. 1652 (Europa Publications Ltd 2004) (ISBN 978-1857432541) (listing paper as principal paper in Lahti)
3. Päijäthämäläisen sanomalehden 110 vuotta, Etelä-Suomen Sanomat (in Finnish), 16 April 2010 (a history of the paper and its predecessors)
4. Inka Salovaara-Moring (2004). Media Geographies (PDF). Helsinki: Viestinnän julkaisuja. ISBN 952-10-1619-1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 15 December 2014.
5. Tästä on hyvä jatkaa, Etelä-Suomen Sanomat (in Finnish), 16 April 2010 (commentary from the paper's editor, Heikki Hakala)
6. "Etelä-Suomen Sanoma". eurotopics.net. Retrieved 31 October 2024.
7. "Finland Press and Media". Press Reference. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
8. Olli Nurmi (11 October 2004). "Colour quality control – The Finnish example" (PDF). VTT. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
9. "Top ten daily newspapers by circulation 2006". Nordicom. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
10. "The Nordic Media Market" (PDF). Nordicom. 2009. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
11. Circulation Statistics 2009 Archived 5 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine, Levikintarkastus Oy - Finnish Audit Bureau of Circulations, Retrieved 3 August 2010
12. "Circulation Statistics 2011" (PDF). Levikintarkastus Oy - Finnish Audit Bureau of Circulations. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 July 2019. Retrieved 15 December 2014.
13. "Circulation Statistics 2013" (PDF). Levikintarkastus Oy - Finnish Audit Bureau of Circulations. 23 June 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 March 2017. Retrieved 12 February 2015.

External links

• Official site