Kansan Uutiset

History and profile

Kansan Uutiset was founded in 1957{{cite book|title=The Europa World Year Book 2003

Kansan Uutiset served the parties until their dissolution in 1990. The paper had close ties to the new Left Alliance, which was founded in 1990, but it did not declare itself the organ until 2000. In the 1990s Kansan Uutiset called itself an "independent left paper".{{cite web|author=Raimo Salokangas|title=From Political to National, Regional and Local|format=Book chapter|archive-date=14 December 2014

Kansan Uutiset has its headquarters in Helsinki.{{cite web|author=Jyrki Jyrkiäinen

In 2007, the editor-in-chief Janne Mäkinen was convicted of an editorial misdemeanor (), after the newspaper published an opinion piece about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict claiming that the Holocaust was an "acceptable and desirable measure".

The paper was published four days a week until September 2009, when it became a weekly. The KU website, however, is updated every day.

The circulation of Kansan Uutiset was 43,800 copies in 1974. The paper sold 9,749 copies in 2002.

Editors

• Jarno Pennanen (1957)
• Jorma Simpura (1957–1974)
• Erkki Kauppila (1974–1988)
• Yrjö Rautio (1988–2004)
• Janne Mäkinen (2004–2008)
• Jouko Joentausta (2008–2014)
• Sirpa Puhakka (2015–)

References

References

1. Yrjö Rautio. (2007). Sitoutumattomaksi ja jälleen puoluelehdeksi. in Veli-Pekka Leppänen (ed.): Etusivu uusiks! Kansan Uutisten viisi vuosikymmentä (Kansan Uutiset), pp. 224–227.
2. Juha-Pekka Tikka. (15 July 2008). [https://web.archive.org/web/20080914030459/http://www.iltasanomat.fi/uutiset/kotimaa/uutinen.asp?id=1557222 Martti Korhonen "haiskahtaa esteelliseltä" saamalleen vaalirahoitukselle] ''Ilta-Sanomat''
3. (8 January 2007). "Lehdille tuomio kiihottamisesta kansanryhmää vastaan". Helsingin Sanomat.