Yle news and other Finnish media reported today the police search of the home of Helsingin Sanomat’s journalist Laura Halminen. She is one of two of the paper’s journalists responsible for a report published last Saturday by Helsingin Sanomat about… Read More ›
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Frankfurter Allgemeine: Juha Sipilä, Finland’s Prime Minister a small Trump?
In a recent article published under the title “Kritische Medien erträgt er nicht”(He can not stand critical media), Frankfurter Allgemeine has criticized the attitude of Finland’s PM Juha Sipilä towards the national radio Yle, pushing two journalists to leave Yle… Read More ›
Finland’s Government is interfering with the independent media, by Outi Alanko-Kahiluoto, MP
The government of Sipilä, Soini and Stubb has decided that, in the future, Yle’s financing depends on the values of the governing parties