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Helsingin Sanomat is the biggest subscription newspaper
Newspaper

A newspaper is a publication containing news, information and advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called newsprint. General-interest newspapers often feature articles on Politics, crime, business, art/entertainment, society and sports....
 in Finland
Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
. Except after certain holidays, it is published daily. In 2006, its daily circulation was 426,117 on weekdays (a change of −1.1% from 2005) and 476,211 on Sundays (−1.4%). Its name derives from that of the Finnish capital, Helsinki
Helsinki

Helsinki is the Capital and largest List of cities and towns in Finland of Finland. It is in the southern part of Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, by the Baltic Sea....
, where it is published.

In Finland, the paper's name is often abbreviated HS. Colloquially, it was called Hesa in the past and Hesari today.

paper was founded in 1889 as Päivälehti
Päivälehti

P?iv?lehti was a newspaper in Finland, which was then a Grand Duchy under the Czar of Russia. The paper was founded in 1889 as the organ of the Young Finnish Party and published on six days a week....
, when Finland was a Grand Duchy
Grand Duchy of Finland

The Grand Duchy of Finland was the predecessor state of modern Finland that existed in its territory 1809–1917 as part of the Russian Empire....
 under the Tsar
Tsar

Tsar or czar , occasionally spelled csar or tzar in English language, is a slavs term designating certain monarchs.Originally, the title Czar meant Emperor in the European medieval sense of the term, that is, a ruler who has the same rank as a Ancient Rome or Byzantine emperor due to recognition by another emperor or...
 of Russia
Russia

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.






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Helsingin Sanomat is the biggest subscription newspaper
Newspaper

A newspaper is a publication containing news, information and advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called newsprint. General-interest newspapers often feature articles on Politics, crime, business, art/entertainment, society and sports....
 in Finland
Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
. Except after certain holidays, it is published daily. In 2006, its daily circulation was 426,117 on weekdays (a change of −1.1% from 2005) and 476,211 on Sundays (−1.4%). Its name derives from that of the Finnish capital, Helsinki
Helsinki

Helsinki is the Capital and largest List of cities and towns in Finland of Finland. It is in the southern part of Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, by the Baltic Sea....
, where it is published.

In Finland, the paper's name is often abbreviated HS. Colloquially, it was called Hesa in the past and Hesari today.

History

The paper was founded in 1889 as Päivälehti
Päivälehti

P?iv?lehti was a newspaper in Finland, which was then a Grand Duchy under the Czar of Russia. The paper was founded in 1889 as the organ of the Young Finnish Party and published on six days a week....
, when Finland was a Grand Duchy
Grand Duchy of Finland

The Grand Duchy of Finland was the predecessor state of modern Finland that existed in its territory 1809–1917 as part of the Russian Empire....
 under the Tsar
Tsar

Tsar or czar , occasionally spelled csar or tzar in English language, is a slavs term designating certain monarchs.Originally, the title Czar meant Emperor in the European medieval sense of the term, that is, a ruler who has the same rank as a Ancient Rome or Byzantine emperor due to recognition by another emperor or...
 of Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
. Political censorship by the Russian authorities, prompted by the paper's strong advocacy of greater Finnish freedoms and even outright independence, forced Päivälehti to often temporarily suspend publication, and finally to close permanently in 1904. Its proprietors re-opened the paper under its current name in 1905.

Originally founded as the organ of the Young Finnish Party
Young Finnish Party

The Young Finnish Party or Constitutional-Fennoman Party began as an upper-class reformist movement in the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland during the 1870s and formed as a political party in 1894....
, the paper has been politically independent and non-aligned since the 1930s.

Helsingin Sanomat has a long history as a family business
Family Business

Family Business, although played with a set of specialized cards, is more like a board game in the way it is played. "The game of mob vengeance" is for 2 to 6 players, each of whom plays with 9 mobsters from real historical gangs:...
, owned by the Erkko family. It is currently the flagship of the SanomaWSOY
SanomaWSOY

Sanoma Oyj is the leading Mass media group in the Nordic countries with operations in 20 European countries, based in Helsinki. The group is also among the top five European magazine publishers and has a strong position, in addition to its native Finland, in Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, L...
 media group.

The relationship between Helsingin Sanomat and Finland's government has often been close. For instance, during the run-up to the Winter War
Winter War

The Winter War or the Soviet-Finnish War began when the Soviet Union attacked Finland on 30 November 1939, three months after the invasion of Poland by Germany that started World War II....
, Eljas Erkko was at the same time the paper's publisher and Finland's foreign minister
Minister of Foreign Affairs (Finland)

The Minister for Foreign Affairs of Finland handles Finland's Foreign affairs. The current Minister for Foreign Affairs is Alexander Stubb.Three ministers are attached to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs :...
.

Format

The paper is published in Finnish
Finnish language

Finnish is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by Finnish people outside of Finland. It is one of the official languages of Finland and an official minority language in Sweden....
 in broadsheet format. The paper also has a monthly supplement named Kuukausiliite (Finnish for "Monthly Supplement"), and a weekly TV guide and entertainment-oriented supplement named Nyt ("Now"). There are also both Finnish and English-language Internet
Internet

The Internet is a global network of interconnected computers, enabling users to share information along multiple channels. Typically, a computer that connects to the Internet can access information from a vast array of available server and other computers by moving information from them to the computer's local memory....
 editions.

Circulation and influence

Helsingin Sanomat has a penetration of approximately 75% of the households of the Greater Helsinki
Greater Helsinki

Greater Helsinki and the smaller Helsinki Metropolitan Area or Capital Region refer to two regions of different size surrounding Helsinki, the Capital of Finland....
 region, and also functions as the local paper of the region. Its total daily circulation is well over 400,000, or about 8% of Finland's total population, making it the biggest daily subscription newspaper in the Nordic countries
Nordic countries

File:Location Nordic Council.svgThe Nordic countries make up a region in Northern Europe and far northeastern North America, called the Nordic region, consisting of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and their associated territories which include the Faroe Islands, Greenland and ?land....
.

The paper is a significant factor in Finnish society. Pertti Klemola calls it a state authority, an institution with its own independent social and political will.

Helsingin Sanomat strongly advocated Finland joining the European Union
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
 in the run-up to the decision to do so in 1994. It has also openly expressed support for Finland's membership of NATO
NATO

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization , also called the Atlantic Alliance, is a military alliance established by the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on 4 April 1949....
.

Helsingin Sanomat International Edition

The English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
 section of the HS website, the Helsingin Sanomat International Edition (often shorted to just HSIE) started in 1999 with the aim of informing readers of news from Finland during the Finnish presidency of the European Union. However it continued after the presidency due to the amount of readers it was getting and it is now seen as one of the major sources of news about Finland in English, making it popular with English-speaking immigrants to the country.

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