Itä-Savo

Itä-Savo is a Finnish language daily newspaper published in Savonlinna, Finland. It has been in circulation since 1907.

Itä-Savo

Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Berliner
Founded	1907; 118 years ago (1907)
Language	Finnish
Headquarters	Savonlinna
OCLC number	751757703
Website	Itä-Savo

History and profile

The paper was established in 1907 under the title of Savolainen and was a media outlet of the Old Finns Party.^[1] It was renamed as Itä-Savo following the Independence of Finland in 1917.^[1]

Itä-Savo was one of the papers owned by the Agrarian Party in the 1950s.^[2] Since 2002 the paper has no political affiliation.^[1]

As of 2007 the publisher of Itä-Savo was a company with the same name which was part of the Länsi-Savo Corporation.^[1] Its publisher is Etelä-Savon Viestintä Oy, a subsidiary of Länsi-Savo Corporation, and it has its headquarters in Savonlinna.^[3] The paper is published in Berliner format.^[4]

Kyösti Pienimäki was the editor-in-chief of Itä-Savo in 2007.^[1] Tuomo Yli-Huttula served in the post until October 2012 when Tiina Ojutkangas succeeded him as editor-in-chief of the paper.^[5]

Circulation

Itä-Savo sold 10,094 copies in 1957.^[2] Its circulation was 18,143 copies, and it had nearly 49,000 readers in 2007.^[1] The paper had a circulation of 14,834 copies in 2013.^[6] The number of its readers was 35,000 in 2014.^[7]