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A whole new news service on the way
The Channel Four Finland´s news desk will be merged with the news editors of the Helsingin Sanomat newspaper in 2012. The operations will move to a shared facility in the autumn at the latest, but increased cooperation between the news desks is already taking place.
The new news service will combine the communication strengths of both parties. The Internet, television, printed paper, new terminal devices and radio will be integrated into a concept in which news topics evolve in the different media throughout the day.
“We aim at one editorial office preparing news stories for many media. The news editors will have the tempting and interesting opportunity of expanding their area of work,” says Mikael Pentikäinen, Senior Editor-in-Chief of Helsingin Sanomat.
Both sides are excited about the developments. Eero Hyvönen, Editor in Chief, Channel Four Finland News, believes that the expansion of job duties will boost the operations of the news desks.
“Our people participated in the working groups that planned the integration in the summer. It was great to see how new ideas started sprouting as soon as people got together with Helsingin Sanomat staff, ” Hyvönen says.
Channel Four Finland News will provide Helsingin Sanomat with video expertise, and Helsingin Sanomat, in turn, can provide Channel Four Finland News with more detailed and extensive ways to obtain news.
“The size of the mechanism that monitors the world of news has an effect on how well a news day can be planned. Through this new arrangement, we will have access to a foreign correspondent network and will be able to carry out investigative journalism in collaboration with Helsingin Sanomat,” Hyvönen says.
Helsingin Sanomat and Channel Four Finland News merging is a part of the One Sanoma project to create an even more flexible and unified organisation that can provide its customers with a new level of product and service innovation.
