{{Infobox newspaper | name = Tiedonantaja | logo = Tiedonantaja.png | image = | caption = | type = Monthly newspaper | format = tabloid | owners = | publisher = Kustannusyhtiö TA-Tieto Oy | chief_editor = Petra Packalén | founded = {{start date and age|1968}} | political_position = Marxist | language = Finnish | headquarters = Helsinki | circulation = 6,000 (2010) | sister_newspapers = ''Arbetartidningen Enhet'' 1974–1988 | ISSN = 0356-1631 | website = [http://www.tiedonantaja.fi tiedonantaja.fi] }} '''''Tiedonantaja''''' ({{IPA|fi|ˈtie̯donˌɑntɑjɑ|-}}, "Informant") 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 Petra Packalén<ref>{{cite news|title=Petra Packalén on valittu Tiedonantajan uudeksi päätoimittajaksi|work=Tiedonantaja|date=17 March 2018|url=https://tiedonantaja.fi/artikkelit/petra-packalen-on-valittu-tiedonantajan-uudeksi-p-toimittajaksi|language=fi|access-date=22 September 2023}}</ref> who was preceded by Marko Korvela (2012–2018) and Erkki Susi (1983–2012).
==History and profile== ''Tiedonantaja'' was founded in 1968 as the paper of the taistoist minority faction of the Communist Party of Finland<ref>{{cite book|author=Esko Salminen|title=The Silenced Media The Propaganda War between Russia and the West in Northern Europe|year=1999|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|location=London|page=41|isbn=978-0-230-38992-2|doi=10.1057/9780230389922|url=https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230389922}}</ref> until the opposition was expelled in the mid-1980s.{{Clarify|reason=Which opposition's expelling does this reference?|date=February 2018}} During the 1970s and in the first half of the 1980s ''Kansan Uutiset'' represented the moderates in the party whereas ''Tiedonantaja'' was the organ of the doctrinaire faction.<ref>{{cite book|editor1=Eric Solsten|editor2=Sandra W. Meditz|title=Finland: A Country Study|year=1988|publisher=GPO for the Library of Congress|location=Washington, DC|isbn=978-1490435749|chapter-url=http://countrystudies.us/finland/127.htm |chapter=The Communist Party}}</ref> 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. Tiedonantaja became a monthly newspaper in 2018.
In the 1970s, ''Tiedonantaja'' had a circulation of about 30,000. Its circulation was 6,000 copies in 2010.<ref>[http://www.tiedonantaja.fi/ilmoitukset Ilmoitukset] Tiedonantaja 2010</ref> Over 50,000 people sent May Day and new year's greetings, which were published in the special editions.
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==External links== *{{Official website|https://www.tiedonantaja.fi/}} *{{Commons-inline}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Tiedonantaja}} Category:1968 establishments in Finland Category:Newspapers established in 1968 Category:Communist newspapers Category:Finnish-language newspapers Category:Weekly newspapers published in Finland Category:Newspapers published in Helsinki