''Helsinki Times'' is the first English language

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providing news about Finland and the world for English-speaking readers resident in the country. A weekly printed edition was issued between 2007 and 2015.

History and profile

''Helsinki Times'' was established in April 2007 by

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who settled in Finland in 1990. A paper version was published in

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. and was eventually discontinued in February 2015. However, until today, ''helsinkitimes.fi'' is updated several times per day with domestic news about Finland in English, resulting in a huge archive of Finland related articles compiled of a good number of original and translated articles. ''Helsinki Times'' has had partnerships with ''

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, and other prominent international media outlets. Columns and articles from these media had been published in ''Helsinki Times'' regularly and some of them advertised their sites and services in ''Helsinki Times''. Domestically, ''Helsinki Times'' partnered with Finland's main newspaper, ''

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'', where Helsinki Times was the official

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edition of ''Helsingin Sanomat''. During that partnership, which lasted from 2014 to 2016, in addition to its original columns and articles, some articles from the Finnish paper were translated and published in English on the website of ''Helsinki Times''.

Today

Nowadays, ''Helsinki Times'' is a free

published by media company Dream Catcher, which can be read without subscription. The site has more than 300 000 unique visitors each month. Notable guest columnists included

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, Cynthia McKinney, Giovanni Buttarelli, Jutta Urpilainen, Sanni Grahn-Laasonen, Bill Durodié,

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, and Maria Guzenina. Readers are mainly

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s and immigrants residing in Finland, but the site is visited by a considerable number of readers, who have commercial or personal interest in Finland's affairs. The official Facebook page is updated several times per day and has over 12 000 Likes. Apart from ''Helsinki Times'', award-winning documentaries and TV series, and books, Dream Catcher is also publishing ''

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'', an online service featuring articles and columns about lifestyle, culture, society, as well as interviews and weekly guest contributions by immigrants in Finland. In 2020 and 2021, the newssite has sections for China News in English and Simplified Chinese, whose articles are provided directly by ''

'', and which have downplayed the

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and published Chinese-written disinformation about Covid-19. It defended the arrangement as an attempt to balance allegedly biased Western media reports.

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