Borgåbladet

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Borgåbladet

Former newspaper in Finland


Borgåbladet was a Swedish-language newspaper that was published five times a week from the town of Porvoo (Swedish: Borgå) in Finland. It was the third oldest newspaper in Finland.

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History and profile

Borgåbladet was founded in 1860.[1] The paper was published in Swedish and was owned by a foundation, Konstsamfundet.[2] Its publisher was the KSF Media[3] which also publishes Västra Nyland, Östra Nyland, Hangötidningen, Hufvudstadsbladet and Loviisan Sanomat.[4]

Borgåbladet was published five times per week[5] and its headquarters were in Porvoo.[6]

The circulation of Borgåbladet was 9,020 copies in 1996.[5] The paper had a circulation of 7,798 copies in 2010 and 7,523 copies in 2011.[3]

In January 2015, Borgåbladet and Östra Nyland were amalgamated into the new newspaper Östnyland.[7]

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References

  1. Jyrkiäinen, Jyrki. "Media Landscapes: Finland". Archived from the original on 9 February 2015. Retrieved 24 February 2015.
  2. Karppinen, Kari; Nieminen, Hannu; Markkanen, Anna-Laura (2014). "High Professional Ethos in a Small, Concentrated Media Market" (PDF). Blogipalvelut. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
  3. Katja Lehtisaari; et al. (2012). "Media Convergence and Business Models: Responses of Finnish Daily Newspapers" (PDF). University of Helsinki. Research Report. Archived from the original (Research Report) on 25 February 2015. Retrieved 24 February 2015.
  4. Ørhøj, Lars (31 January 2014). "Record Readership for Digital Evening Paper". Visiolink. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
  5. "Swedish in Finland". Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. 17 April 1998. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
  6. "Minority daily press in Finland". GFBV. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
  7. Borgåbladet at Uppslagverket Finland (in Swedish).

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