Haparandabladet

Haparandabladet (Finnish: Haaparannanlehti) is a Swedish regional newspaper for Tornedalen. It began as two separate newspapers — one Finnish and one Swedish — but the two merged in 1923 to produce one bilingual publication. In 2015, they also began publishing in Meänkieli. The first issue, then a solely Finnish publication, was published on 5 July 1882. It merged with its sister Swedish paper in 1923. As of 1894, the Swedish paper was published on Saturdays while the Finnish paper was published on Wednesdays. Printer F.E. Nikander took over the paper's publication in 1896. As of 1929, it was Sweden's only Finnish-language newspaper. It was described as the only bilingual paper in 1952, when it celebrated its seventieth anniversary. They received 400,000 SEK of press support in 1979.