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Tiedonantaja
TypeMonthly newspaper
Format tabloid
PublisherKustannusyhtiö TA-Tieto Oy
Editor-in-chief Petra Packalén
Founded1968; 56 years ago (1968)
Political alignment Marxist
Language Finnish
Headquarters Helsinki
Circulation6,000 (2010)
Sister newspapers Arbetartidningen Enhet 1974–1988
ISSN 0356-1631
Website tiedonantaja.fi

Tiedonantaja ("Informant") is a Finnish leftist monthly newspaper published in Helsinki, Finland. It is the party organ of the new Communist Party of Finland (SKP).

Tiedonantaja's current editor-in-chief is Petra Packalén [1] who was preceded by Marko Korvela (2012-2018) and Erkki Susi (1983-2012).

History and profile

Tiedonantaja was founded in 1968 as the paper of the taistoist minority faction of the Communist Party of Finland [2] until the opposition was expelled in the mid-1980s.[ clarification needed] During the 1970s and in the first half of the 1980s Kansan Uutiset represented the moderates in the party whereas Tiedonantaja was the organ of the doctrinaire faction. [3] In the late 1980s, the paper was also the organ of the electoral front, Democratic Alternative.

Tiedonantaja was first published irregularly by the Uusimaa district organisation of the SKP. It became a nationwide publication after other taistoist districts joined, and in 1970 the paper began to be published on a weekly basis. In 1972, Tiedonantaja was published three times a week and from 1973 onwards, four times a week. The paper reduced back to its weekly format in 1990. Tiedonantaja became a monthly newspaper in 2018.

In the 1970s, Tiedonantaja had a circulation of about 30,000. Its circulation was 6,000 copies in 2010. [4] Over 50,000 people sent May Day and new year's greetings, which were published in the special editions.

References

  1. ^ "Petra Packalén on valittu Tiedonantajan uudeksi päätoimittajaksi". Tiedonantaja (in Finnish). 17 March 2018. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
  2. ^ Esko Salminen (1999). The Silenced Media The Propaganda War between Russia and the West in Northern Europe. London: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 41. doi: 10.1057/9780230389922. ISBN  978-0-230-38992-2.
  3. ^ Eric Solsten; Sandra W. Meditz, eds. (1988). "The Communist Party". Finland: A Country Study. Washington, DC: GPO for the Library of Congress. ISBN  978-1490435749.
  4. ^ Ilmoitukset Tiedonantaja 2010

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