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Finnish News Agency

Finnish news agency

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ8095218 ↗
Source-derived summary

Finnish News Agency (Finnish: Suomen Tietotoimisto, STT; Swedish: Finska Notisbyrån, FNB), officially Oy Suomen Tietotoimisto – Finska Notisbyrån Ab, is a Finnish news agency, established in 1887 and based in Helsinki. STT's majority owner is Sanoma Media Finland of the Sanoma Group. The Finnish public service broadcaster Yle is among the minority shareholders.

STT is a sister agency of the Swedish wire service TT, Norwegian NTB, and Danish Ritzau.

Editorial summary

“Finnish News Agency” enters the record as finnish news agency. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Finnish, News and Agency can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1887—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1887-11-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Finnish, News and Agency.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Finnish News Agency” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Finnish, News and Agency provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q8095218. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1887.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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  • Subject orientation
  • Search vocabulary
  • Locating named sources
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The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Finnish News Agency”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Finnish News Agency primary sources, Finnish News Agency archive and Finnish research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Finnish News Agency” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.