The paper was established in 1907 under the title of Savolainen and was a media outlet of the Old Finns Party.[1] It was renamed as Itä-Savo following the Independence of Finland in 1917.[1]
Itä-Savo was one of the papers owned by the Agrarian Party in the 1950s.[2] Since 2002 the paper has no political affiliation.[1]
As of 2007 the publisher of Itä-Savo was a company with the same name which was part of the Länsi-Savo Corporation.[1] Its publisher is Etelä-Savon Viestintä Oy, a subsidiary of Länsi-Savo Corporation, and it has its headquarters in Savonlinna.[3] The paper is published in Berliner format.[4]
Kyösti Pienimäki was the editor-in-chief of Itä-Savo in 2007.[1] Tuomo Yli-Huttula served in the post until October 2012 when Tiina Ojutkangas succeeded him as editor-in-chief of the paper.[5]
Itä-Savo sold 10,094 copies in 1957.[2] Its circulation was 18,143 copies, and it had nearly 49,000 readers in 2007.[1] The paper had a circulation of 14,834 copies in 2013.[6] The number of its readers was 35,000 in 2014.[7]
^Minttumaaria Jaakkola; Salla Laasonen; Timo Vuorisalo (2014). "Safeguarding the Saimaa ringed seal"(PDF). University of Turku. Archived from the original(Report) on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
