Funding: Own budget (18), Public broadcaster / state media (6), Tech company (Google/GNI) (1)
Yle News Lab built a data-driven expert tool and collaborative method letting multidisciplinary teams examine the power dynamics of social media platforms — treating the platforms themselves as a reporting beat. AI analyses large volumes of Finnish-language text to explain what is happening on social media; in one investigation the lab gathered thousands of data points through purpose-made fake social-media…
Vipunen — agentic AI journalist co-worker deployed as a Slack app in the Helsingin Sanomat newsroom (first deployed May 2026); journalistic research agent that supports reporters in the information-gathering and research phase of stories; has multiple data skills (tools/capabilities) and autonomously selects the best tool to answer a journalist's natural-language query; built by the HS data and development team…
'Maire' — an AI synthetic voice that reads STT-produced news bulletins to listeners every 30 minutes, around the clock, distributed via Bauer Media across 11 radio channels (incl. Radio Nova, Iskelmä, Radio Nostalgia). STT is also building an AI news-monitoring tool. All bulletin texts are written by STT journalists and checked by sub-editors; a human makes the final news selection before the AI anchor voices it.
GenAI emotion classification system — classifies each article by emotional type (inspiring, constructive, sad, entertaining, empathetic, provocative, analytical, questioning, useful) and tracks the positive/neutral/negative emotional balance across the total content offering; helps editors ensure emotional variety in the news diet to combat news fatigue and reader avoidance; integrated into editorial workflow as…
AI fact-checking system using Factiverse built into "Renki" — Viestimedia's internal AI platform; verifies text and video content including YouTube material; developed through Finnish media-startup incubator in collaboration with Factiverse (Norway-based); verification system checks claims against authoritative sources and flags potential inaccuracies
AI-generated article summaries: Kaleva built its own tool that generates multiple AI summaries placed at the start of selected news stories, to test how AI can be used in the newspaper's editorial operations. Each summary is clearly labelled and always reviewed by a human before publication.