''Kansan Uutiset'' (

Finnish Finnish may refer to: * Something or someone from, or related to Finland * Culture of Finland * Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland * Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people * Finnish cuisine See also ...

: "People's News") is a Finnish language

weekly newspaper A weekly newspaper is a general-news or Current affairs (news format), current affairs publication that is issued once or twice a week in a wide variety broadsheet, magazine, and electronic publishing, digital formats. Similarly, a biweekly new ...

published in

Helsinki Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the Capital city, capital, primate city, primate, and List of cities and towns in Finland, most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of U ...

, Finland. It is the party organ of the Left Alliance.

History and profile

''Kansan Uutiset'' was founded in 1957 as the joint organ of

Communist Party of Finland The Communist Party of Finland ( fi, Suomen Kommunistinen Puolue, SKP; sv, Finlands Kommunistiska Parti) was a communist political party in Finland. The SKP was a section of Comintern and illegal in Finland until 1944. The SKP was banned by ...

(SKP) and

Finnish People's Democratic League Finnish People's Democratic League ( fi, Suomen Kansan Demokraattinen Liitto, SKDL; sv, Demokratiska Förbundet för Finlands Folk, DFFF) was a Finnish political organisation with the aim of uniting those left of the Finnish Social Democratic P ...

(SKDL), both of which, until then, had had their own papers, '' Työkansan Sanomat'' (SKP) and ''

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'' (SKDL). During the 1970s and in the first half of the 1980s ''Kansan Uutiset'' represented the moderates in these groups whereas '' Tiedonantaja'' was the organ of the doctrinaire faction. ''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".Yrjö Rautio. (2007). Sitoutumattomaksi ja jälleen puoluelehdeksi. in Veli-Pekka Leppänen (ed.): Etusivu uusiks! Kansan Uutisten viisi vuosikymmentä (Kansan Uutiset), pp. 224–227. ''Kansan Uutiset'' has its headquarters in Helsinki. Until 1990 the paper was owned by the organisations publishing it. SKP and SKDL also directed the paper through its council and board. New arrangements were made after the parties were gone. A joint stock company was founded, and the new owners were, for example, left-wing trade unions, banks and foundations. The Left Alliance did not directly own any stocks. Nowadays, Yrjö Sirola Foundation has majority of the stocks. In 2007, the editor-in-chief Janne Mäkinen was convicted of an editorial misdemeanor ( fi, päätoimittajarikkomus), after the newspaper published an opinion piece about the

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claiming that the

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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 Yrjö, a masculine Finnish given name that is the equivalent of George, may refer to: * Yrjö von Grönhagen, (1911–2003), Finnish anthropologist * Yrjö Jylhä, (1903–1956), Finnish poet * Yrjö Kilpinen (1892–1959), Finnish com ...

(1988–2004) *

Janne Mäkinen Turisas is a Finland, Finnish metal band from Hämeenlinna. They were founded in 1997 by Mathias Nygård and Jussi Wickström, and named after an Iku-Turso, ancient Finnish god of war. Turisas are a folk metal band, incorporating elements of p ...

(2004–2008) * Jouko Joentausta (2008–2014) *Sirpa Puhakka (2015–)

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kansan Uutiset 1957 establishments in Finland Finnish-language newspapers Finnish People's Democratic League Left Alliance (Finland) Newspapers published in Helsinki Publications established in 1957 Weekly newspapers published in Finland