Postimees

Postimees
"Seisame eesti rahvuse, keele ja kultuuri säilimise eest läbi aegade"
TypeDaily newspaper
Owner(s)Postimees Group
Founder(s)Johann Voldemar Jannsen
Editor-in-chiefPriit Hõbemägi
Deputy editorKalev Korv
Aivar Reinap
Opinion editorMartin Ehala
Sports editorHenry Lääne
Photo editorErik Prozes
Founded5 June 1857 (1857-06-05)
LanguageEstonian
HeadquartersTartu maantee 80, 10112 Tallinn, Estonia
Circulation40,100 (April 2019)
ISSN1406-0981
Websitewww.postimees.ee

Postimees (Estonian for '[The] Postman') is an Estonian daily newspaper established on 5 June 1857, by Johann Voldemar Jannsen. In 1891, it became the first daily newspaper in Estonia.[1] Its current editor-in-chief is Priit Hõbemägi. The paper has approximately 250 employees.

Postimees is currently published five days a week and has the largest circulation and readership in Estonia with 55,000 copies sold during the workweek and over 72,000 on weekends.[2]

Ninety-seven per cent of the paper's circulation is subscription-based with only three per cent sold individually. The weekend edition of Postimees, published on Saturdays, includes several separate sections: AK (Arvamus ja Kultuur), Arter, and a television-guide.

The paper is owned by namesake media company Postimees Group (formerly known as Eesti Meedia), which a company owned by entrepreneur Margus Linnamäe has a full control since 2015.

  1. ^ A Bertricau, Antoine Chalvin L'Estonie: identité et indépendance -- 2001 - Page 349 "1857 Johann Voldemar Jannsen fonde le Perno Postimees (devenu Eesti Postimees en 1864, puis Postimees en 1891)."
  2. ^ "- AS Postimees Grupp". Archived from the original on 18 December 2013. Retrieved 6 October 2013.