''Länsiväylä'' is a

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published twice a week in the cities of

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and

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in southern

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, on Wednesdays and weekends. The total readership of ''Länsiväylä'' numbers 136 thousand. The print newspaper has 121 thousand readers, the combined print and digital newspaper has nine thousand and the digital newspaper has 15 thousand. ''Länsiväylä'' is published by Etelä-Suomen Media which is part of the

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concern. The newspaper is printed at SLY-Lehtipainot. Sister magazines in the capital area include ''

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'', '' Nurmijärven Uutiset'' and '' Vantaan Sanomat''.

History

The newspaper was founded by the Asuntosäätiö foundation in 1954. Its name at the time was ''Tapiola Tänään'' and its function was to serve as an information medium to the inhabitants of the newly founded district of

Tapiola Tapiola (; ) is a district of the municipality of Espoo on the south coast of Finland, and is one of the major urban centres of Espoo. It is located in the western part of Helsinki capital region. The name ''Tapiola'' is derived from ''Tapio (spi ...

in Espoo. In January 1969 the newspaper was renamed ''Länsiväylä''. In 2013 ''Länsiväylä'' was elected best newspaper in Finland by the "Free newspaper of the year" competition held by the Finnish Newspaper Association.

Editors

*Uolevi Itkonen (1964-1996) *Antti Soininen (1996-1998) *Janne Kaijärvi (1998-2004) *Eero Lehtinen (2006-2007) * Risto Hietanen (2007-2008) *

Antti-Pekka Pietilä is one of Finland's two prominent Tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid-size evening newspapers and the largest paper in the country. Its counterpart and biggest rival is ''Iltalehti''. According to the National Media Research done in 2019, ''Ilt ...

(2008-2017) *Mikko Heino (2017-2020) * Karri Kannala (acting) (2020-2021) *Heli KoivuniemiHeli Koivuniemi Länsiväylän päätoimittajaksi
''Länsiväylä'' 2 March 2021. Accessed on 1 April 2021. (2021-)

Sources

Official site of ''Länsiväylä''KMT Kuluttaja 2014
*Hatakka, Elina; Hellström, Mauritz; Marttinen, Markku (ed.): ''Länsiväylän villit vuodet. Länsiväylän tekijöiden muisteloita vuosilta 1969–1998.'' Tallinn 2015.

References

Finnish-language newspapers