On the fourth day of IPI’s visit to Finland as part of its OnTheLine project, which focuses on researching and combating the online harassment of journalists, we had the chance to visit two of the country’s biggest national media outlets: liberal newspaper Helsingin Sanomat and public broadcaster Yle. As part of our visits, we met […]

On the second day of IPI’s mission to Finland, the team talked with female journalists who have been heavily targeted with online harassment. One of them was MustRead.fi journalist Linda Pelkonen, who was threatened on social media for her work in 2015. In February, a court convicted two of the three men involved. The pioneering […]

IPI is conducting a fact-finding mission to Finland this week, as part of its OnTheLine project, which explores the measures media organizations are implementing in their newsrooms to cope with online attacks against journalists. Today, IPI visited the daily Maaseudun Tulevaisuus, which has a rural and agricultural focus, and the evening newspaper Iltalehti, a tabloid […]

When it comes to “fake news”, disinformation and hate speech, most media experts agree that a greater degree of media literacy and public trust in professional news media outlets are viable means to curb some of the most negative effects of the phenomenon. Last autumn, a project called Faktana, kiitos! – roughly translated as Facts, […]