''Tyrvään Sanomat'' is a

Finnish language Finnish ( endonym: or ) is a Uralic language of the Finnic branch, spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland. Finnish is one of the two official languages of Finland (the other being Swedish ...

newspaper published in Sastamala, Finland. It is the oldest local newspaper in the country.

History and profile

''Tyrvään Sanomat'' was established by a primary school teacher in

Tyrvää Tyrvää (; sv, Tyrvis) was a municipality in the Satakunta region, Turku and Pori Province, Finland. It was established in 1439 when the Tyrvää parish was separated from the parish of Karkku. In 1915, the market town of Vammala was separated fr ...

, Turku and Pori Province in 1894. The paper is based in Vammala, Sastamala and is distributed in the regions of Sastamala and Kiikoinen. The owner is the Alma Media Group which also owns many other newspapers, including '' Aamulehti'' and ''

Iltalehti ''Iltalehti'' (literally "Evening newspaper") is a tabloid newspaper published in Helsinki, Finland. History and profile ''Iltalehti'' was established in 1980 as afternoon edition of newspaper ''Uusi Suomi''. Alma Media is the owner of ''Iltal ...

''. The publisher of ''Tyrvään Sanomat'' was Tyrvään Sanomat Oy until 16 April 2010 when Suomen Paikallissanomat Oy, a subsidiary of Alma Media Group, became its publisher. ''Tyrvään Sanomat'' became the first European newspaper which employed the VDT-based editorial system in 1974. As of 1998 the paper was published three times per week. Then its frequency became twice-weekly. Minna Ala-Heikkilä served as its editor-in-chief who was appointed to the post in 2008. In 2013 the Finnish Newspapers Association awarded ''Tyrvään Sanomat'' in the category of the Good News story. The 1997 circulation of ''Tyrvään Sanomat'' was 8,700 copies. In 2011 the paper sold 9,063 copies. Its circulation was 8,539 copies in 2012 and 8,032 copies in 2013.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Tyrvaan Sanomat 1894 establishments in Finland Finnish-language newspapers Newspapers established in 1894 Newspapers published in Finland