Aamulehti
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | Alma Media |
| Founder(s) | F. V. Jalander |
| Editor | Matti Apunen |
| Founded | 1881 |
| Political alignment | Neutral |
| Language | Finnish |
| Headquarters | Tampere |
| Circulation | 114,231 (2013) |
| Website | www |
Aamulehti (Finnish for "morning newspaper") is a Finnish language daily newspaper published in Tampere, Finland.
History and profile
Aamulehti was founded in 1881[1][2] to “improve the position of the Finnish people and the Finnish language” during Russia’s rule over Finland.[3] The founders were nationalistic Finns in Tampere.[1][4]
In the 1980s, Aamulehti Corporation acquired the paper Uusi Suomi, which they shut down in 1991.[1] Aamulehti was published in broadsheet format[5] until April 2014 when the paper switched to tabloid format.[2][6] Matti Apunen is the editor-in-chief of the paper,[7] which is based in Tampere and serves the Pirkanmaa region.[8]
Until 1992 the paper aligned itself with the National Coalition Party,[9][10] but it no longer has an official connection to any political party.
Aamulehti Corporation was the owner of Aamulehti[11] until 2003 when the paper was acquired by Alma Media, a large media corporation in Finland, for a reported 460 million euros.[12] The sister papers of the daily are Iltalehti and Kauppalehti.[1][13]
Since 2006 Aamulehti has published four weekly supplements — Moro (meaning “Hi,” in the dialect of the Tampere region, and devoted to the culture of Tampere), on Thursdays; the entertainment-centred Valo (“Light”), published on Fridays; Asiat (“Matters”), on Sundays; and Ihmiset (“People”), also on Sundays. The paper covers journalism innovation at least once a month.[14]
Circulation
Peaking in 2008, Aamulehti grew steadily, regularly reporting the third-highest newspaper circulation numbers in Finland.[15] The circulation was 135,194 copies in 1993,[9] reaching 135,478 copies in 2001.[16][17] By 2004 the paper had an average daily circulation of 136,028 copies[18] per day and 140,802 copies on Sundays, with an estimated readership of 329,000.[18] Aamulehti’s circulation was 136,743 copies in 2005;[5][19] 138,258 copies (2006);[20] 139,165 copies (2007)[5][21] — reaching a high-water mark of 139,130 copies in 2008, then declining to 135,293 copies in 2009;[22] 131,539 copies (2010); 130,081 copies (2011);[22] and 114,231 copies in 2013.[23]
By 2014 Aamulehti had Finland’s second-largest circulation and had the fifth-largest estimated readership.[24] In 2010, with 262,947 weekly visitors, the online version of Aamulehti was the twenty-third most visited website in Finland.[25]
Editors
- F. V. Jalander 1881–1884
- Kaarlo Viljakainen 1884–1905
- Aukusti Alhovuori 1905–1912
- Eetu A. Alha 1913–1926
- Jaakko Tuomikoski 1931–1956
- Jaakko Hakala 1956–1964
- Raino Vehmas 1971–1979
- Pertti Pesonen 1979–1990
- Raimo Seppälä 1991–1998
- Matti Apunen 1998, 2000–2010
- Jouko Jokinen 2010–present
References
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External links
- Aamulehti
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