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for "morning newspaper") is a Finnish-language

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published in Tampere,

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History and profile

''Aamulehti'' was founded in 1881 to "improve the position of the Finnish people and the Finnish language" during

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's rule over Finland. The founders were

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Finns in Tampere. During the Cold War period ''Aamulehti'' was among the Finnish newspapers which were accused by the

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of being the instrument of US propaganda, and the Soviet Embassy in Helsinki frequently protested the editors of the paper. In the 1980s, Aamulehti Corporation acquired the paper '' Uusi Suomi'', which they shut down in 1991. ''Aamulehti'' was published in broadsheet format until April 2014 when the paper switched to

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. Matti Apunen was the

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of the paper until 2010. The paper is based in Tampere and serves the Pirkanmaa region. Until 1992 the paper aligned itself with the

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, but it no longer has an official connection to any political party. Aamulehti Corporation was the owner of ''Aamulehti'' until 2003 when the paper was acquired by

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, a large media corporation in Finland, for a reported 460 million euros. In 2020, the

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corporation acquired Alma Media, and thus, also ''Aamulehti''. 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.

Circulation

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Peaking in 2008, ''Aamulehti'' grew steadily, regularly reporting the third-highest newspaper circulation numbers in Finland. The circulation was 135,194 copies in 1993, reaching 135,478 copies in 2001. By 2004 the paper had an average daily circulation of 136,028 copies per day and 140,802 copies on Sundays, with an estimated readership of 329,000. ''Aamulehtis circulation was 136,743 copies in 2005; 138,258 copies (2006); 139,165 copies (2007) — reaching a high-water mark of 139,130 copies in 2008, then declining to 135,293 copies in 2009; 131,539 copies (2010); 130,081 copies (2011); and 114,231 copies in 2013. By 2014 ''Aamulehti'' had Finland's second-largest circulation and had the fifth-largest estimated readership. In 2010, with 262,947 weekly visitors, the online version of ''Aamulehti'' was the twenty-third most visited website in Finland.

Editors

* F. V. Jalander 1881–1884 * Kaarlo Viljakainen 1884–1905 * Aukusti Alhovuori 1905–1912 * Eetu A. Alha 1913–1926 * Jaakko Tuomikoski 1931–1956 *

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1956–1964 * Raino Vehmas 1971–1979 * Pertti Pesonen 1979–1990 * Raimo Seppälä 1991–1998 * Matti Apunen 1998, 2000–2010 * Jouko Jokinen 2010–present

References

External links

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