New Editor-in-Chief for Jämsän Seutu

Alma Media Corporation         Press Release         25 July 2011, 9:00 a.m.

 

 

NEW EDITOR-IN-CHIEF FOR JÄMSÄN SEUTU

 

The Editor-in-Chief for the newspaper Jämsän Seutu and the local paper Vekkari will change from the beginning of the year 2012. The present Editor-in-Chief, Mr Pekka Hyytinen, will then go into part-time retirement.

 

Pekka Hyytinen has worked as Editor-in-Chief in Jämsä since 2000. He took up the position of Editor-in-Chief for Koillis-Häme, the predecessor of Jämsän Seutu, after working as Editor-in-Chief for Kankaanpään Seutu.

 

Mr Hyytinen will be 60 in this autumn. During his part-time retirement he will continue working as a special reporter until his full-time retirement in the autumn of 2014.

 

Suomen Paikallissanomat Oy is Alma Media Corporation’s local paper company publishing 17 subscription-based local papers and three city papers in different parts of Finland.

 

Further information:
Managing Director Kari Juutilainen, Suomen Paikallissanomat Oy, tel.  +358 50 435 4159.

 

Alma Media in brief

 

Alma Media is a dynamic media company whose best-known products are Aamulehti, Iltalehti, Kauppalehti and Etuovi.com. Alma Media employs approximately 2,800 professionals. The company’s net sales in 2010 totalled MEUR 311.4 with an operating margin of 13.9 per cent. Alma Media’s share (ALN1V) is listed in the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Exchange. Read more at www.almamedia.fi

Share article