''Nya Åland'' is a

Swedish language Swedish ( ) is a North Germanic languages, North Germanic language from the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family, spoken predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland. It has at least 10 million native speakers, making it the G ...

newspaper in

Åland Åland ( , ; ) is an Federacy, autonomous and Demilitarized zone, demilitarised region of Finland. Receiving its autonomy by a 1920 decision of the League of Nations, it is the smallest region of Finland by both area () and population (30,54 ...

, an autonomous region in

Finland Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, ...

. It is the second largest local newspaper on Åland, following

Ålandstidningen ''Ålandstidningen'' or ''Tidningen Åland'' is a Swedish language, Swedish-language newspaper in Åland, an autonomous region in Finland. It is published six times a week with a circulation of 8,392, and is the largest local newspaper on Åland, ...

History and profile

''Nya Åland'' was founded in 1981 as a cooperative movement. Hasse Svensson was the

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of ''Ålandstidningen'' and left it following an internal dispute to form ''Nya Åland''. The paper is published in

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. At the initial phase, ''Nya Åland'' was published twice per week. Then it began to be published five times a week (Monday through Friday). The newspaper is a member of MIDAS ( European Association of Daily Newspapers in Minority and Regional Languages).

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''Nya Åland''
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