Is Ilta-Sanomat biased?
Media Bias/Fact Check places Ilta-Sanomat in the centre. We have not yet published a story this outlet appeared on.
The short answers
Is Ilta-Sanomat biased?
Media Bias/Fact Check places Ilta-Sanomat in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Ilta-Sanomat left or right?
Media Bias/Fact Check places Ilta-Sanomat in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is Ilta-Sanomat reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Ilta-Sanomat are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
Who says so
One organisation has published a rating for this outlet. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
- Media Bias/Fact CheckcenterCheck it
How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
High factuality
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Who owns it
- SanomaMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
Where it publishes from
What we have seen ourselves
We have not published a story Ilta-Sanomat appeared on. It has a page here because it turned up in the coverage of a story we were reading, which happens well before we have written anything it is part of. Measured 5 August 2026.
Stories we have seen it on
None yet. This fills in as Ilta-Sanomat appears on stories we publish, and each entry links both to the outlet’s own report and to ours.
Every rating on this page is a named third party’s published work, republished with its author and, where one exists, a link to it. Our own coverage record is the section we measure ourselves. Neither is a judgement of any individual report: those are scored story by story, and the reasoning is on our methodology page.