Itä-Häme (newspaper)

Itä-Häme is a morning tabloid newspaper published in Heinola in Itä-Häme, Finland.^[1]

Itä-Häme

Type	Newspaper
Format	Tabloid
Owner(s)	ESS
Editor-in-chief	Jari Niemi
Founded	1927; 98 years ago (1927)
Language	Finnish
Circulation	10,427 (2011)
Website	Itä-Häme

History and profile

Itä-Häme was established 1927 in Sysmä. The newspaper is headquartered in Lahti. It is part of the ESS company.^[2] Its chief editor is Jari Niemi. The paper is published six times per week.^[1] Its format was broadsheet until 2005 when the paper began to be published in tabloid format.^[1] It is the first Finnish newspaper which institutionalized the post of civic reporter in 2004.^[1]

The circulation of Itä-Häme in 2001 was 13,900 copies,^[3] decreasing to 12,000 copies in 2006,^[1] 10,719 copies in 2010, and 10,427 copies in 2011.^[2]