Me Naiset

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Me Naiset
Editor-in-chiefIina Artima-Kyrki
Categories Women's magazine
FrequencyWeekly
PublisherSanoma Magazines
FounderKaarlo Mantere
Founded1952;72 years ago (1952)
Company Sanoma
Country Finland
Based in Helsinki
Language Finnish
Website Me Naiset
ISSN 0025-6277
OCLC 6318366

Me Naiset (Finnish : We the Women) is a women's magazine published in Helsinki, Finland. It is one of the largest weekly women's magazines in the country [1] and has been in circulation since 1952.

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History and profile

Me Naiset was established in 1952. [2] [3] [4] Its founder was Kaarlo Mantere, a Finnish publisher. [3] Later it was sold to Viikkosanomat Oy. [3] The owner of the magazine is Sanoma, and it is published by Sanoma Magazines on a weekly basis on Thursdays. [1] [5] The company acquired the magazine in 1957. [6] In 1958 the magazine began to employ its own fashion models. [3] Me Naiset was the only weekly women's magazine in Finland until 1963 when another weekly entitled Anna was started. [7]

The headquarters of Me Naiset is in Helsinki. [8] [9] Target audience of the magazine is women living in big cities and in Southern Finland. [5] Its sister magazine is Me Naiset SPORT. [10]

Me Naiset focuses on fashion, beauty and shopping. [5] However, until the end of the 1990s the weekly mostly published articles on social and political topics. [11] From the early 2000s it began to feature articles about motherhood. [12]

Replacing Riitta Pollari, [13] Marjo Vuorinen served as the editor-in-chief of Me Naiset between 2010 and 2012. [1] On 23 July 2012 Johanna Lahti became its editor-in-chief. [1]

Circulation and popularity

During the early years Me Naiset sold 25,000 copies. [3] Its circulation rose to 36,000 copies in 1958. [3] The average circulation of the magazine was 70,000 copies in 1961. [3] It rose to over 120,000 copies in 1962 and to 180,000 copies in 1973. [3] In the period between 1965 and 1975 the magazine was one of the most popular magazines in the country. [14] Its circulation was 133,000 copies in 1978. [3]

The weekly had a circulation of 124,485 copies in 2004. [3] Its circulation was 134,000 copies in 2007. [15] [16] The circulation of the magazine was 147,354 copies in 2010 [17] and 146,248 copies in 2011. [1] [18] Its circulation was 138,594 copies in 2012 [19] and 119,631 copies in 2013. [20] As of 2014 Me Naiset was the most popular women’s general magazine in Finland. [21]

See also

List of magazines in Finland

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  7. ↑ Heidi Kurvinen (2015). "Global ideas in local media: Negotiating the Ideas of Gender Equality in a Finnish Women's Magazine—The Case of Anna, 1965–1970". In Yulia Gradskova; Sara Sanders (eds.). Institutionalizing Gender Equality: Historical and Global Perspectives. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. p. 23. ISBN   978-1-4985-1674-7.
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  9. ↑ The Europa World Year Book 2003. London; New York: Europa Publications. 2003. p. 1615. ISBN   978-1-85743-227-5.
  10. ↑ "The new Me Naiset SPORT inspires wider audiences". Publicitas. 3 February 2012. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
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