ABOUT STT SERVICES
About STT
National news agency
The Finnish News Agency (STT) is an independent, national news provider. STT is the only news organisation in Finland that produces a real-time and comprehensive news agency service. STT also produces a number of other services for media as well as communications services for leading companies and other organisations.
STT is headquartered in central Helsinki. The agency has eight regional bureaux in Finland as well as correspondents in Stockholm, Brussels, Moscow and Washington.
STT employs about 130 people, 110 of who are journalists. As Finland itself, STT is bilingual: most news are covered in Swedish as well as in Finnish. Some services are offered in English as well.
In most countries media organisations have felt the role of the principal news agency to be strategic enough to own it jointly. Finland is not an exception: STT counts 41 media companies among its owners.
Almost all Finnish news media and a number of international customers subscribe to STT services. Further, STT has hundreds of businesses, associations and government agencies as customers. The combined circulation of the newspapers that publish STT news is more than 2.5 million.
Founded in 1887, STT is one of the oldes news agencies still in operation The agency bases its actions on the principles of free speech and independent news coverage. STT takes pride in its news items being based on verified information and treating everybody equally.
STT does not seek to influence public opinion. Rather, its mission is to produce information on the basis of which readers, listeners and viewers can make their own conclusions and form opinions.
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