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Lapin Kansa

Field	Value
name	Lapin Kansa
type	Daily newspaper
format	Tabloid
founded
owners	Lapin Kansa Oy/Kaleva Oy
publisher	Kaleva
language	Finnish
political_position	Neutral
headquarters	Rovaniemi, Finland
editor	Antti Kokkonen
circulation	10,000 (2024)
website	[www.lapinkansa.fi](http://www.lapinkansa.fi/)

Lapin Kansa is a morning newspaper published in Lapland, Finland.

Media said in 2024, that it will be published 3 times a week (print edition), and 6 times a week for the digital edition.

History and profile

Lapin Kansa was established in 1928. The newspaper is based in Rovaniemi. In June 2013 Kaleva publishing house began to publish the daily together with the group's other newspaper Pohjolan Sanomat.

Heikki Tuomi-Nikula is among the former editors-in-chief of the paper. However, she was fired immediately after her appointment due to the fact that she was a lesbian. Antti Kokkonen replaced her in the post.

In January 2011 the daily changed its format from broadsheet to tabloid. Since 2011 Lapin Kansa has published news and reports in both North Sami language and Finnish.

In 2013 Lapin Kansa had a circulation of 28,992 copies.

References

https://yle.fi/a/74-20090503. Retrieved 2024-06-12
"History". Alma Media.
Inka Salovaara-Moring. (2004). "Media Geographies". Viestinnän julkaisuja.
(14 June 2013). "Alma Media's regional newspapers in Northern Finland to be printed at Kaleva printing house". Global Newswire.
(5 October 2008). "Alma Media Corporation sacked gay editor-in-chief". Sepponet.
(2011). "Annual review 2011.Readers embrace smaller format newspapers". Alma Media.
(25 January 2013). "Revitalising Indigenous Languages: How to Recreate a Lost Generation". Multilingual Matters.
(23 June 2014). "Circulation Statistics 2013". Levikintarkastus Oy – Finnish Audit Bureau of Circulations.

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