Tiedonantaja

Tiedonantaja

Type	Weekly newspaper
Format	tabloid
Publisher	TA-Tieto Oy
Editor-in-chief
Founded	1968; 54 years ago (1968)
Political alignment	Marxist
Language	Finnish
Headquarters	Helsinki
Circulation	6,000 (2010)
Sister newspapers	1974–1988
ISSN	0356-1631
Website	tiedonantaja.fi

Tiedonantaja is a Finnish leftist monthly newspaper published in Helsinki, Finland. It is the party organ of the new Communist Party of Finland (SKP).

Tiedonantaja's current editor-in-chief is ^[1] who was preceded by (1983-2012) and (1970–1983).

History and profile[]

Tiedonantaja was founded in 1968 as the paper of the taistoist minority faction of the Communist Party of Finland until the opposition was expelled in the mid-1980s.^{[clarification needed]} In the late 1980s, the paper was also the organ of the electoral front, Democratic Alternative.

Tiedonantaja was first published irregularly by the Uusimaa district organisation of the SKP. It became a nationwide publication after other taistoist districts joined, and in 1970 the paper began to be published on a weekly basis. In 1972, Tiedonantaja was published three times a week and from 1973 onwards, four times a week. The paper reduced back to its weekly format in 1990.

In the 1970s, Tiedonantaja had a circulation of about 30,000. Its circulation was 6,000 copies in 2010.^[2] Over 50,000 people sent May Day and new year's greetings, which were published in the special editions.

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