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Finland · FI · https://www.hs.fi

About Helsingin Sanomat

Paper Of Record Center-leftEstablished source

Helsingin Sanomat is owned by Sanoma Corporation, Finland's largest media group and a European education publisher, publicly traded on Nasdaq Helsinki. The newspaper has a long history as a family business, with the Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation holding a significant, though minority, stake in Sanoma.

Helsingin Sanomat is considered Finland's newspaper of record and is the largest subscription newspaper in the Nordic countries. Media Bias/Fact Check rates it as Left-Center biased with high factual reporting, noting its editorial positions favor environmentalism and left-leaning social justice policy. While generally independent, the outlet has faced controversies, including the 2023 conviction (upheld in 2025) of two journalists for disclosing state secrets in a 2017 article on military intelligence, which raised press freedom concerns. However, charges of aggravated defamation against its journalists and editors in a separate 2021 investigative report were dismissed in 2024. Finland consistently ranks high in global press freedom indices, providing a strong media environment for the publication.

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