# Hymy > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Hymy > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Hymy.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hymy > Source revision: 1242544379 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Finnish celebrity magazine}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2021}} {{Infobox magazine | image_file = | image_size = | image_caption. = | editor = Mika Lahtonen | editor_title = Editor-in-chief | frequency = Monthly | circulation = | category = Celebrity magazine | company = | publisher = Otavamedia Oy | founded = {{start date and age|1959}} | firstdate = | finaldate = | country = [Finland](/source/Finland) | based = [Helsinki](/source/Helsinki) | language = [Finnish](/source/Finnish_language) | website = [http://www.hymy.fi/ ''Hymy''] | issn = | oclc = }} '''''Hymy''''' ([Finnish](/source/Finnish_language): "Smile") is a monthly celebrity magazine published in [Helsinki](/source/Helsinki), [Finland](/source/Finland). It has been in circulation since 1959. ==History and profile== ''Hymy'' was launched in 1959 by publisher [Urpo Lahtinen](/source/Urpo_Lahtinen){{cite news|title=Jyrki Hämäläinen (1942-2008) Long-serving teen magazine editor and pop-culture biographer dies at 65|url=http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Jyrki+H%C3%A4m%C3%A4l%C3%A4inen+1942-2008/1135234921575|work=[Helsingin Sanomat](/source/Helsingin_Sanomat)|date=19 March 2008|access-date=27 March 2008}} and named after his wife Hymy Lahtinen. The magazine dealt with the experiences of the [low income](/source/low_income) [Finns](/source/Finnish_people) and is an example of [yellow journalism](/source/yellow_journalism). It is based in [Helsinki](/source/Helsinki) and is published monthly by Otavamedia Oy.{{cite web|title=Member Info|work=Aikakaus Media|access-date=20 November 2014|url=http://www.aikakauslehdet.fi/Frontpage/Members-of-FPPA/Member-info/?lista=luokat&luokka=a.1.1&vuosi=2014&lang=eng&type=&sub=Consumer%20magazines|archive-date=29 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129041543/http://www.aikakauslehdet.fi/Frontpage/Members-of-FPPA/Member-info/?lista=luokat&luokka=a.1.1&vuosi=2014&lang=eng&type=&sub=Consumer%20magazines|url-status=dead}} In the 1960s and 1970s ''Hymy'' became a success{{cite journal|author=Tuija Saarinen|title=The Soviet Union and Soviet Citizens in Finnish Magazines|journal=Nordlit|year=2014|volume=31|doi=10.7557/13.3058|doi-access=free}} with sensationalist stories containing much sex and gossip about Finnish celebrities, often verging on the [invasion of privacy](/source/invasion_of_privacy). All texts and articles published in the magazine are written by professional journalists. Typical ''Hymy'' stories would be about the singer [Irwin Goodman](/source/Irwin_Goodman), Finland's first openly gay celebrity [Monsieur Mosse](/source/Monsieur_Mosse), or the notorious pictorial on [Jörn Donner](/source/J%C3%B6rn_Donner) naked on a Gambian beach with a local underage girl. The most famous writer for ''Hymy'' was [Veikko Ennala](/source/Veikko_Ennala), and probably one of the most infamous stories was about the author [Timo K. Mukka](/source/Timo_K._Mukka). The story allegedly became one of the main causes for the author's early death soon afterwards. This resulted in a Finnish law called the ''Lex Hymy'', regulating any press stories published about private persons. In March 2008 the magazine published story of the then Finnish Foreign Minister [Ilkka Kanerva](/source/Ilkka_Kanerva)'s SMS messages to erotic dancer [Johanna Tukiainen](/source/Johanna_Tukiainen).{{cite book|author=John Keane|title=Democracy and Media Decadence|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ia5ZAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA44 |year=2013|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-04177-6|page=44|author-link=John Keane (political theorist)|location=Cambridge; New York}}{{cite journal|author1=Pekka Isotalus|author2=Merja Almonkaril|title=Political Scandal Tests Trust in Politicians|journal=Nordicom Review|year=2014|volume=35|issue=2|doi=10.2478/nor-2014-0011|doi-access=free}} The magazine also published several of the messages on 1 April 2008 and Kanerva had to step down from his cabinet member position. The [editor-in-chief](/source/editor-in-chief) of ''Hymy'' is Mika Lahtonen. ==Circulation== In 1970 ''Hymy'' had a circulation of 435,000 copies. Its circulation was 904,000 copies in 2007.{{cite web|author=Anne Austin|display-authors=etal|title=Western Europe Market & Media Fact |url=http://conan.lib.muohio.edu/ebooks/Western_Europe_Market_MediaFact_2008/Western%20Europe%20Market%20&%20MediaFact%202008.pdf|work=ZenithOptimedia|access-date=8 April 2015|date=2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150205131709/http://conan.lib.muohio.edu/ebooks/Western_Europe_Market_MediaFact_2008/Western%20Europe%20Market%20%26%20MediaFact%202008.pdf|archive-date=5 February 2015|df=dmy-all}} In 2010 the magazine had a circulation of 88,637 copies.{{cite web|title=Top 50 Magazines|url=http://ifabc.org/site/assets/media/Top-50-magazines-30042014.xlsx|work=IFABC|access-date=28 April 2015|date=30 April 2014|archive-date=10 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160410013106/http://ifabc.org/site/assets/media/Top-50-magazines-30042014.xlsx|url-status=dead}} The 2011 circulation of the monthly was 87,876 copies.{{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=30 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170330135637/http://mediaauditfinland.fi/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Circulations2011.pdf|url-status=dead}} It fell to 73,788 copies in 2012. The number of its subscribers was 237,000 based on the 2013 data by the Finnish Audit Bureau of Circulations. ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== * {{Official website|http://www.hymy.fi/ }} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Hymy}} Category:1959 establishments in Finland Category:Celebrity magazines Category:Magazines established in 1959 Category:Magazines published in Helsinki Category:Monthly magazines published in Finland --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Hymy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hymy) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hymy?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.