Tiedonantaja

History and profile

Tiedonantaja was founded in 1968 as the paper of the taistoist minority faction of the Communist Party of Finland until the opposition was expelled in the mid-1980s. During the 1970s and in the first half of the 1980s Kansan Uutiset represented the moderates in the party whereas Tiedonantaja was the organ of the doctrinaire faction.{{cite book|editor1=Eric Solsten|editor2=Sandra W. Meditz|title=Finland: A Country Study|year=1988|publisher=GPO for the Library of Congress|location=Washington, DC|isbn=978-1490435749|chapter-url=http://countrystudies.us/finland/127.htm

Tiedonantaja was first published irregularly by the Uusimaa district organisation of the SKP. It became a nationwide publication after other taistoist districts joined, and in 1970 the paper began to be published on a weekly basis. In 1972, Tiedonantaja was published three times a week and from 1973 onwards, four times a week. The paper reduced back to its weekly format in 1990. Tiedonantaja became a monthly newspaper in 2018.

In the 1970s, Tiedonantaja had a circulation of about 30,000. Its circulation was 6,000 copies in 2010. Over 50,000 people sent May Day and new year's greetings, which were published in the special editions.

References

References

1. (17 March 2018). "Petra Packalén on valittu Tiedonantajan uudeksi päätoimittajaksi". Tiedonantaja.
2. Esko Salminen. (1999). "The Silenced Media The Propaganda War between Russia and the West in Northern Europe". [[Palgrave Macmillan]].
3. [http://www.tiedonantaja.fi/ilmoitukset Ilmoitukset] Tiedonantaja 2010