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svg Type Daily newspaper Format Tabloid[1] Owner Sanoma Editor Riikka Venlinen Founded 1889 as Pivlehti 1905 as Helsingin Sanomat Political alignment Neutral Language Finnish Headquarters Helsinki, Finland Official website www.hs.fi Helsingin Sanomat, abbreviated HS and colloquially known as Hesari, is the large st subscription newspaper in Finland and the Nordic countries, owned by Sanoma. Except after certain holidays, it is published daily. In 2008, its daily circula tion was 412,421 on weekdays[2] (a change of -1.8% from 2007) and 468,505 on Sun days (-1.3%). Its name derives from that of the Finnish capital, Helsinki, where it is published. The Helsingin Sanomat website HS.fi is one of the most important sources of news in Finnish on the web. In June 2009 the site was the sixth most popular Finnish website.[3] Contents [hide] 1 History 2 Format 3 Circulation and influence 4 Helsingin Sanomat International Edition 5 See also 6 References 7 External links History[edit] This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve th is article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be ch allenged and removed. (August 2009) The paper was founded in 1889 as Pivlehti, when Finland was a Grand Duchy under th e Tsar of Russia.[4] Political censorship by the Russian authorities, prompted by the paper's strong advocacy of greater Finnish freedoms and even outright independence, forced Pivleh ti to often temporarily suspend publication, and finally to close permanently in 1904.[5] Its proprietors re-opened the paper under its current name in 1905.[6] Originally founded as the organ of the Young Finnish Party, the paper has been p olitically independent and non-aligned since the 1930s. Helsingin Sanomat has a long history as a family business, owned by the Erkko fa mily.[7] It is currently owned by the Sanoma media group. The relationship between the owners of Helsingin Sanomat and Finland's governmen t have sometimes been close. For instance, during the run-up to the Winter War, Eljas Erkko was at the same time the paper's publisher and Finland's foreign min ister. Format[edit] The paper is published daily in Finnish in tabloid format with the exception of the days after public holidays when the paper does not appear. The only exceptio n to this is the day after Finnish independence day (7 December) when the revenu e from Christmas advertising ensures an edition after that public holiday. Subsc riptions make up 97% of the newspaper's circulation[2] and the lack of a need to attract casual readers on newsstands had led to the front page usually being to

tally devoted to advertisements. (However, a few events have been important enou gh to be reported on the front page, without any advertisements.) The paper also has a monthly supplement named Kuukausiliite (Finnish for "Monthl y Supplement"), and a weekly TV guide and entertainment-oriented supplement name d Nyt ("Now"). Between 1999 and 2012 there were also both Finnish and English-la nguage online newspaper editions.[8] The newspaper was published in broadsheet format until 6 January, 2013.[1] Helsingin Sanomat is published daily for the iPad. iPad version of Helsingin San omat resembles the newspaper's traditional version but is optimized for the tabl et device. Content of Helsingin Sanomat can be accessed through other mobile dev ices as well. Circulation and influence[edit] Helsingin Sanomat has a penetration of approximately 75% of the households of th e Greater Helsinki region, and also functions as the local paper of the region ( together with Swedish-language Hufvudstadsbladet). Its total daily circulation i s well over 400,000, or about 8% of Finland's total population, making it the bi ggest daily subscription newspaper in the Nordic countries. The paper is a significant factor in Finnish society. Pertti Klemola, a Finnish journalist and scholar, once called it a state authority, an institution with it s own independent social and political will.[9] Helsingin Sanomat strongly advocated Finland joining the European Union in the r un-up to the decision to do so in 1994. It has also openly expressed support for Finland's membership of NATO.[citation needed] Helsingin Sanomat International Edition[edit] The English language section of the Helsingin Sanomat website, the Helsingin San omat International Edition (HSIE) ran for thirteen years.[10] The International Edition launched on 14 September 1999 with the aim of informin g readers of news from Finland during the Finnish presidency of the European Uni on.[11] It continued after the European presidency owing to the quantity of read ers it was getting became one of the major English-language sources of news rega rding Finland making it popular with English-speaking immigrants to the country. The Helsingin Sanomat International Edition closed down on 26 October 2012.[12] See also[edit] List of Finnish newspapers References[edit] ^ Jump up to: a b "Ensimminen HS-tabloidi on tss". Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish). 7 January 2012. Retrieved 7 January 2013. ^ Jump up to: a b Finnish Audit Bureau of Circulations Statistics Jump up ^ "TNS Gallup Metrix weekly site rankings". TNS Gallup. Retrieved 2009-0 7-06. Jump up ^ Sanoma News: History Jump up ^ Sanoma News: History Jump up ^ Sanoma News: History Jump up ^ Helsingin Sanomat: Who? Aatos Erkko Jump up ^ Helsingin Sanomat: About Jump up ^ Klemola, Pertti (1981). Helsingin Sanomat, sananvapauden monopoli. Ota va. p. 13. ISBN 951-1-06118-6. Jump up ^ "Helsingin Sanomat closes down International Edition". Yle Uutiset (in English). 30 October 2012. Retrieved 30 October 2012. Jump up ^ Moore, William (23 October 2012). "Things Have Changed (The End is Nig h)". Helsingin Sanomat International Edition (in English). Retrieved 31 October 2012. "On September 14th, 1999 The Helsingin Sanomat International Edition was la unched on this day on an unsuspecting world, initially for the duration of that first Finnish EU Pres