Suomen Kuvalehti

History and profile

Suomen Kuvalehti was founded in 1873 and continues to this day. It was merged with Kansan Kuvalehti in 1934. The editor in 1935 was L.M. Viherjuuri. Ilmari Turja edited the magazine from 1936 to 1951.

The headquarters of Suomen Kuvalehti is in Helsinki. One of its former editor is Ville Pernaa.

Suomen Kuvalehti originally supported center-right politics in the country. In the aftermath of the Finnish Civil War, from which Finland emerged as an independent, democratic republic, the magazine valorized the victorious Whites as patriots and heroes. It also published Vapautemme hinta, a book detailing Finnish losses during the Winter War and like the vast majority of the Finnish press strongly favored the Finnish government against the Soviet invasion of Finland. During the Cold War period it was one of the Finnish publications which were accused by the Soviet Union of being the instrument of US propaganda, and the Soviet Embassy in Helsinki frequently protested the editors of the magazine.{{cite journal|author=Esko Salminen|title=The Struggle Over Freedom of Speech in the North The Finnish Press Gave Obeisance to Moscow, but did not Succumb to the Kremlin's Propaganda Programme during the Cold War Years 1968-1991|journal=Scandinavian Journal of History

In more modern times, the magazine has had a conservative{{cite journal|author1=Erkki Kauhanen|author2=Elina Noppari

In March 1997 two journalists from Suomen Kuvalehti were arrested in Diyarbakır, Turkey, while reporting about the Kurdish movement in the region.{{cite thesis|author=Aslı Tunç|title=Beyond the line: The situation of editorial cartoonists as a press freedom issue in post-1980 Turkey|location=Temple University|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/304630926?pq-origsite=gscholar&fromopenview=true|page=81|year=2000

Circulation

The circulation of Suomen Kuvalehti was 102,000 copies in 2007 and 96,000 copies in 2009. The 2011 circulation of the weekly grew to 91,277 copies. But, it fell to 86,786 copies in 2012

Editor

• Matti Kivekäs 1916–18
• L. M. Viherjuuri 1918–36
• Ilmari Turja 1936–51
• Primary Rislakk 1952–60
• Leo Tujunen 1961–74
• Jouko Tyyri 1974
• Mikko Pohtola 1974–86
• Pekka Hyvärinen 1987–92
• Martti Backman 1993–96
• Tapani Ruokanen 1996–2014
• Ville Pernaa 2014–

References

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