Finnish News Agency ( fi, Suomen Tietotoimisto, STT; sv, Finska Notisbyrån, FNB) is a

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news agency A news agency is an organization that gathers news reports and sells them to subscribing news organizations, such as newspapers, magazines and radio and television broadcasters. A news agency may also be referred to as a wire service, newswir ...

, established in 1887 and based in

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. STT's majority owner is Sanoma Media Finland of the

Sanoma Sanoma Corporation (, formerly SanomaWSOY) is Finland's largest media group. The company has media business in Finland and a learning business in Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Norway and Spain, among others. The company is headquarte ...

Group. The Finnish public service broadcaster

Yle Yleisradio Oy ( Finnish, literally "General Radio Ltd." or "General Broadcast Ltd."; abbr. Yle ; sv, Rundradion Ab, italics=no), translated to English as the Finnish Broadcasting Company, is Finland's national public broadcasting company, found ...

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

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Suomen Tietotoimisto STT
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