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{{Short description|Finnish tabloid newspaper}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2015}}
{{Infobox newspaper
| logo              = Ilta-Sanomat wordmark.svg
| image             = Ilta-Sanomat front page.jpg
| type              = Daily newspaper
| format            = [[Tabloid (newspaper format)|Tabloid]]
| founded           = {{start date and age|1932}}
| owners            = [[Sanoma]]
| headquarters      = [[Helsinki]]
| chief_editor      = Johanna Lahti
| circulation       = 55,000
| circulation_date  = 2024
| sister_newspapers = ''[[Helsingin Sanomat]]''
| website           = {{Official URL}}
}}
{{langnf|fi|'''Ilta-Sanomat'''|the evening news}} is one of Finland's two prominent [[Tabloid (newspaper format)|tabloid]]-size evening newspapers and the largest paper in the country. Its counterpart and biggest rival is ''[[Iltalehti]]''.

According to the National Media Research done in 2019, ''Ilta-Sanomat'' is also the biggest digital media in Finland and reaches about 2.5 million Finns.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.is.fi/kotimaa/art-2000006018773.html|title=KMT osoittaa: Ilta-Sanomat on Suomen suurin uutismedia|date=2019-03-01|website=Ilta-Sanomat|language=fi|access-date=2020-03-06}}</ref>

Johanna Lahti has been the editor-in-chief of ''Ilta-Sanomat'' since November 2019, when the previous editor-in-chief Tapio Sadeoja retired after 38 years in office.<ref name="is.fi">{{Cite web|url=https://www.is.fi/kotimaa/art-2000006292713.html|title=Suomen suurimman uutismedian pomo vaihtuu! IS:n päätoimittaja Tapio Sadeoja eläkkeelle: "Vierastan missiojournalismia"|date=2019-11-01|website=Ilta-Sanomat|language=fi|access-date=2020-03-06}}</ref>

==History and profile==
The paper was established in 1932 as the afternoon edition of ''[[Helsingin Sanomat]]''.<ref name="Terzis2007">{{cite book|editor=Georgios Terzis|title=European Media Governance: National and Regional Dimensions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=68nbtqst-CsC&pg=PA100|access-date=19 November 2014|year=2007|publisher=Intellect Books|isbn=978-1-84150-192-5|page=98}}</ref><ref name="Group2003">{{cite book|title=The Europa World Year Book 2003|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XLvU9lroRuUC&pg=PA1613|access-date=20 November 2014|date=10 July 2003|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-85743-227-5|page=1613}}</ref><ref name=rfb>{{cite web|title=SanomaWSOY Corporation - Company Profile|url=http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/history2/67/SanomaWSOY-Corporation.html|work=Reference for Business|access-date=9 April 2015}}</ref> In 1949 it became a separate newspaper and was named ''Ilta-Sanomat''.<ref name=rfb/>

Its sister paper is ''Helsingin Sanomat'' and both papers are part of [[Sanoma]].<ref name=Terzis2007/> ''Ilta-Sanomat'' is published in [[tabloid format]] six times per week.<ref name=kel/><ref name=maf>{{cite web|title=Circulation Statistics 2011|url=http://mediaauditfinland.fi/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Circulations2011.pdf|work=Media Audit Finland|access-date=13 December 2014|archive-date=25 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190725045140/http://mediaauditfinland.fi/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Circulations2011.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> The paper has an independent political stance.<ref>{{cite web|title=Finland Press|url=http://www.pressreference.com/Fa-Gu/Finland.html|work=Press Reference|access-date=6 April 2015}}</ref>

==Circulation==
The circulation of ''Ilta-Sanomat'' was 212,854 copies in 1993, making it the second largest newspaper in Finland after its sister paper ''Helsingin Sanomat''.<ref name="Cook2001">{{cite book|author=Bernard A. Cook|title=Europe Since 1945: An Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ox_gXq2jpdYC&pg=PA384|access-date=20 November 2014|year=2001|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-8153-4057-7|page=384}}</ref> In the period of 1995-1996 the paper had a circulation of 213,600 copies.<ref>{{cite book|title=Media Policy: Convergence, Concentration & Commerce|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k6HU9WdjwgkC&pg=PA7|access-date=3 February 2014|date=24 September 1998|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=978-1-4462-6524-6|page=10}}</ref>

''Ilta-Sanomat'' had a circulation of 215,000 copies in 2000.<ref>{{cite news|title=Top 100 dailies 2000|url=http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/news/49276/|access-date=2 March 2015|work=campaign|date=16 November 2001}}</ref> Its circulation was 218,829 copies in 2001, making it the second most read paper in the country.<ref name=kel>{{cite book|editor1=Mary Kelly|editor2=Gianpietro Mazzoleni|editor3=Denis McQuail|title=The Media in Europe: The Euromedia Handbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0moFhDLjTiwC&pg=PA62|access-date=13 December 2014|date=31 January 2004|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=978-0-7619-4132-3|page=62}}</ref><ref name=kaa3>{{cite journal|author=Kaarina Nikunen|title=Losing my profession: Age, experience and expertise in the changing newsrooms|journal=Journalism|date=2013|volume=15|issue=7|pages=868–888|url=http://www.uta.fi/cmt/en/research/comet/projects/completed/lamaeng/Losing%20my%20profession.full.pdf|access-date=10 February 2015|publisher=Sage Publications|doi=10.1177/1464884913508610|s2cid=144286660}}</ref> In 2002 it had a circulation of 214,610 copies on weekdays and 243,443 copies in weekends.<ref name=Group2003/> It was again the second best selling newspaper with the paper-based circulation on a declining trajectory at 205,000 copies in 2003.<ref>{{cite web|title=World Press Trends|url=http://www.wan-press.org/ecrire/upload/wpt2004.pdf|work=World Association of Newspapers|access-date=8 February 2015|location=Paris|date=2004|archive-date=8 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150208082604/http://www.wan-press.org/ecrire/upload/wpt2004.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> Next year the circulation of the paper was down to 201,000 copies.<ref>{{cite web|title=Media pluralism in the Member States of the European Union|url=http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/media_taskforce/doc/pluralism/media_pluralism_swp_en.pdf|work=Commission of the European Communities|access-date=27 March 2015|location=Brussels|date=16 January 2007}}</ref>

The circulation continued to fall, to 195,673 copies in 2005,<ref name=kaa3/> 186,462 copies in 2006,<ref>{{cite web|title=Top ten daily newspapers by circulation 2006|url=http://www.nordicom.gu.se/sites/default/files/medieforskning-statistik/1127_1060_topten_dailies_2006.xls|work=Nordicom|access-date=8 March 2015}}</ref> and 176,531 copies in 2007.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Nordic Media Market|url=http://www.nordicom.gu.se/sites/default/files/publikationer-hela-pdf/nmt09_001-194.pdf|work=Nordicom|access-date=7 March 2015|date=2009|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304191531/http://www.nordicom.gu.se/sites/default/files/publikationer-hela-pdf/nmt09_001-194.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> The circulation of ''Ilta-Sanomat'' was 161,615 copies in 2008 and 152,948 copies in 2009.<ref name=kaa3/><ref name=ifabc>{{cite web|title=National newspapers total circulation|url=http://www.ifabc.org/site/assets/media/National-Newspapers_total-circulation_IFABC_09-07-12.xls|work=International Federation of Audit Bureaux of Circulations|access-date=5 December 2014|archive-date=6 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141206234846/http://www.ifabc.org/site/assets/media/National-Newspapers_total-circulation_IFABC_09-07-12.xls|url-status=dead}}</ref> It was 150,351 copies in 2010<ref name=ifabc/> and 143,321 copies in 2011.<ref name=maf/>

In 2010 the online version of ''Ilta-Sanomat'' was the second most visited website in Finland in 2010 and was visited by 1,823,956 people per week.<ref>{{cite web|author1=Kari Karppinen|author2=Hannu Nieminen|author3=Anna-Laura Markkanen|title=High Professional Ethos in a Small, Concentrated Media Market|url=http://blogs.helsinki.fi/kekarppi/files/2014/01/05FINLANDkorr1.pdf|work=Blogipalvelut|access-date=29 December 2014|date=2014}}</ref>

==Editors-in-chief==
[[File:Ilta-Sanomat on board an aeroplane.jpg|thumb|"Ilta-Sanomat" newspaper]]
* Johanna Lahti 2019–<ref name="is.fi"/>
*Reijo Ruokanen ?–2010<ref>{{cite news|title=Reijo Ruokanen appointed editor-in-chief|url=http://www.dgap.de/dgap/News/corporate/reijo-ruokanen-appointed-editorinchief-talouselaemae-magazine/?newsID=634346|access-date=20 November 2014|work=DGAP|date=1 July 2010}}</ref>
*[[Tapio Sadeoja]] 2007–2019<ref name="is.fi"/>
*[[Hannu Savola]] 2006–2007
*[[Antti-Pekka Pietilä]] 2003–2006
*[[Vesa-Pekka Koljonen]] 1984–2003
*[[Martti Huhtamäki]] 1974–1983
*[[Olavi Aarrejärvi]] 1966–1973
*[[Heikki Tikkanen]] 1961–1966
*[[Teo Mertanen]] 1956–1961
*[[Eero Petäjäniemi]] 1949–1956
*[[Yrjö Niiniluoto]] 1938–1949  (also the [[editor-in-chief]] ''[[Helsingin Sanomat]]'')
*[[Eljas Erkko]] 1932–1938 (also the editor-in-chief ''Helsingin Sanomat'')

==See also==
*[[List of newspapers in Finland]]

==References==
{{Reflist|33em}}

==External links==
* {{Official website}}

[[Category:1932 establishments in Finland]]
[[Category:Newspapers established in 1932]]
[[Category:Daily newspapers published in Finland]]
[[Category:Finnish-language newspapers]]
[[Category:Newspapers published in Helsinki]]