Kauppalehti

<i>Kauppalehti</i>

Kauppalehti

Finnish business newspaper

Kauppalehti (Finnish: Trade Newspaper) is a commerce-oriented newspaper published in Helsinki, Finland. The paper has been in circulation since 1898.

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History and profile

Kauppalehti was established by the Finnish Businessmen's Association in 1898.[1][2] Since 1919 the paper is published five or six times per week.[1][3]

Kauppalehti is owned by the Business Information Group of Alma Media[4] and is based in Helsinki.[5] The sister papers of Kauppalehti are Iltalehti and Aamulehti.[5] Their publisher is the Kustannus Oy Kauppalehti, and Kauppalehti is published in tabloid format.[6]

In 2002 Kauppalehti began to offer a supplement, Saldo, together with the magazine Tekniikka ja Talous.[7] The paper published a Saturday supplement, Presso, from October 2004 to December 2007.[1][8]

Kauppalehti is the first Finnish newspaper which launched paywall in its online edition in 2012.[9]

Circulation

Kauppalehti sold 85,292 copies in 2001.[3][10] Next year it was 84,626 copies.[2] The 2003 circulation of the paper was 83,100 copies.[6] In 2004 the paper had a circulation of 82,000 copies.[11]

The circulation of Kauppalehti was 81,377 copies in 2006.[12] The paper had a circulation of 81,363 copies in 2007.[13] Its circulation in the years of 2008 and 2009 was 86,654 copies and 78,731 copies, respectively.[5] The paper sold 70,118 copies in 2010[5] and 68,252 copies in 2011.[14][15] Its circulation fell to 63,471 copies in 2012[9] and to 57,367 copies in 2013.[16]

The website of Kauppalehti, which was launched in 1996,[5] acts as an important hub for the business community. The website contains both Finnish and English articles.[17] In 2010 it was the eleventh most visited website in Finland and was visited by 655,093 people per week.[18]

References

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    Marina Österlund-Karinkanta (2004). "Finland". In Mary Kelly; Gianpietro Mazzoleni; Denis McQuail (eds.). The Media in Europe: The Euromedia Handbook. London: SAGE Publishing. p. 62. ISBN 978-0-7619-4132-3.
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    Turo Uskali (25 April 2005). "Paying Attention to Weak Signals – The Key Concept for Innovation Journalism" (PDF). Innovation Journalism. 2 (4): 33–51. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 December 2014.
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    Katja Lehtisaari; et al. (2012). "Media Convergence and Business Models: Responses of Finnish Daily Newspapers" (Research Report). University of Helsinki. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
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    "World Press Trends" (PDF). World Association of Newspapers. Paris. 2004. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 February 2015. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
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    "History". Alma Media. Archived from the original on 10 June 2014. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
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    "Kauppalehti to focus on nationwide business journalism". Alma Media. 26 October 2007. Archived from the original on 11 November 2014. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
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    Sampsa Saikkonen; Paula Häkämies (5 January 2014). "Mapping Digital Media: Finland" (Report). Open Society Foundations. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
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    Martin V. Bauer; et al. "The BSE and CJD crisis in the press" (PDF). BVSDE. Archived from the original (Book chapter) on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
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    "Media pluralism in the Member States of the European Union" (PDF). Commission of the European Communities. Brussels. 16 January 2007. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
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    "Top ten daily newspapers by circulation 2006". Nordicom. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
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    "The Nordic Media Market" (PDF). Nordicom. 2009. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
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    "Circulation Statistics 2011" (PDF). Media Audit Finland. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 July 2019. Retrieved 13 December 2014.
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    "National newspapers total circulation". International Federation of Audit Bureaux of Circulations. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
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    Jonas Ohlsson (2 March 2015). "The Nordic Media Market 2015". Nordicom. p. 67. Retrieved 24 September 2023.
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    Oksana Newman (2007). Online Business Sourcebook. Munich: K. G. Saur Verlag. p. 147. ISBN 978-3-598-44038-0.
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    Kari Karppinen; Hannu Nieminen; Anna-Laura Markkanen (2014). "High Professional Ethos in a Small, Concentrated Media Market" (PDF). Blogipalvelut. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
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