Keskisuomalainen is a daily Finnish language newspaper published in Jyväskylä, serving central Finland (Keski-Suomi means Central Finland).
Its parent company Keskisuomalainen Oyj owns nearly 80 newspapers.
[1] Keskisuomalainen was first published on 7 January 1871 with the title Keski-Suomi, and is the oldest Finnish-language newspaper still in circulation.
[4] The paper's parent company, Keskisuomalainen Oyj,[3] has a virtual monopoly in newspaper publishing in central Finland.
[10] In January 2007 its circulation was 76,000 copies, making it the fifth highest circulation of daily Finnish papers, while the average number of readers climbed up to 130,000.