Helsingin Sanomat
Helsingin Sanomat International Edition
Helsingin Sanomat's International Edition went online on September 15, 1999. The site contains abstracts in English of a number of daily stories, and also a weekly digest of edited articles from the newspaper. The daily material appears Mondays through Fridays at around 13.00 local time (GMT +2), and the weekly items are posted on the Web on Tuesday afternoons. Naturally major late-breaking stories are covered where possible outside of these hours.
The service (which does not require registration) also includes other links to sites in Helsinki and elsewhere in Finland. New services will be added in the coming months. The accent of the bulk of the daily and weekly material is perhaps best described as "Finnish with an international dimension", or "international with a Finnish connection", and the weekly items feature in-depth articles by Helsingin Sanomat staffers.
The online paper offers English-speaking readers a chance to see some of the best of Helsingin Sanomat journalism. At the same time, while we do not seek to compete with the wire services on general news, we attempt to provide at least a modicum of information for English speakers locally, and therefore stories include topical items relating to Finland and the Helsinki area. If you have any comments or suggestions on how to develop the service, we'd be glad to hear from you at:
international@sanoma.fi
About Helsingin Sanomat
Helsingin Sanomat is the biggest daily subscription-based newspaper in Scandinavia. It is also Finland's leading national paper, which is read by more than three-fourths of the residents of the Helsinki metropolitan area and by a quarter of all Finns. The paper is independent and non-aligned.
In addition to daily news, Helsingin Sanomat offers readers a monthly supplement Kuukausiliite, a weekly supplement NYT, and an on-line edition accessible via the Internet. The editorial departments of the printed and electronic supplements work independently, while remaining part of Helsingin Sanomat. Both supplements are delivered as inserts to the newspaper, the NYT supplement on Fridays and Kuukausiliite on the first Saturday of each month.
The magazine-format monthly supplement, Kuukausiliite, is a pioneer in photojournalism and a lively platform for discussion among the Finnish reading public.
The NYT supplement is a weekly guide to entertainment and is the leading source of information on leisure-time activities in the Helsinki metropolitan area.
Helsingin Sanomat's Online Edition is available via the Internet. It provides on-line information complementary to that in the daily paper and the weekly and monthly supplements.
Helsingin Sanomat's main editorial office is on Tààlànlahdenkatu in downtown Helsinki. The newspaper also has a nationwide network of regional offices and its own correspondents in Berlin, Brussels, London, Moscow, Stockholm, Washington and Beijing, with contributing writers around the world.
On weekdays the newspaper is 40 to 80 pages, and on Sundays it often runs to over a hundred pages. Helsingin Sanomat is the country's leading advertising paper, with over half a million ads printed yearly. The paper is printed by the business unit Helsingin Sanomat Printing Plant.
The overwhelming majority of Helsingin Sanomat subscribers have automatic renewal subscriptions. The average daily circulation of Helsingin Sanomat in the first half of 2003 was 439,618 copies, and the average Sunday edition was 500,269 copies (audited figures).
More information about Helsingin Sanomat and the Sanoma Corporation at the company website.
Helsingin Sanomat
Janne Virkkunen, Senior Editor in Chief
Reetta Merilâinen, Editor in Chief
Kimmo Pietinen, Managing Editor
Antero Mukka, Managing Editor
Kaius Niemi, Managing Editor
Contacts
Editorial offices
Tààlànlahdenkatu 2, POB 77, FI - 00089 SANOMA
Tel. +358-9-1221 Telefax +358-9-122 2366
Sales
Tààlànlahdenkatu 2, POB 56, FI - 00089 SANOMA
Tel. +358-9-1221 Telefax +358-9-122 3259
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