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| Type | Weekly newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Yrjö Sirola Foundation,trade unions |
| Publisher | Kansan Uutiset Oy |
| Editor | Sirpa Puhakka |
| Founded | 1957; 68 years ago (1957) |
| Political alignment | Left Alliance |
| Language | Finnish |
| Headquarters | Helsinki |
| ISSN | 0357-1521 |
| Website | www.kansanuutiset.fi |
Kansan Uutiset (Finnish: "People's News") is a Finnish languageweekly newspaper published inHelsinki, Finland. It is the party organ of theLeft Alliance.[1][2]
Kansan Uutiset was founded in 1957[1] as the joint organ ofCommunist Party of Finland (SKP) andFinnish People's Democratic League (SKDL),[3] both of which, until then, had had their own papers,Työkansan Sanomat (SKP) andVapaa Sana (SKDL). During the 1970s and in the first half of the 1980sKansan Uutiset represented the moderates in these groups whereasTiedonantaja was the organ of the doctrinaire faction.[4]
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 1990sKansan Uutiset called itself an "independent left paper".[5][6]
Kansan Uutiset has its headquarters in Helsinki.[3][7] 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.[5] Nowadays,Yrjö Sirola Foundation has majority of the stocks.[8]
In 2007, the editor-in-chief Janne Mäkinen was convicted of an editorial misdemeanor (Finnish:päätoimittajarikkomus), after the newspaper published an opinion piece about theIsraeli–Palestinian conflict claiming that theHolocaust was an "acceptable and desirable measure".[9]
The paper was published four days a week until September 2009, when it became a weekly. TheKU website, however, is updated every day.
The circulation ofKansan Uutiset was 43,800 copies in 1974.[3] The paper sold 9,749 copies in 2002.[1]
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