Individual Member: Noora Kettunen

I am the Editor-in-Chief of this new Conciliatory journalism media that goes with the working title Sopiva. We will join the Netwowrk as a group later once we found our cooperative association.
In recent years  a polarisation of talk about migration and asylum issues and cultures have been seen in Finland. Confrontation and stereotypes are being upheld by time pressure in news outlets, conflict-seeking headlines, bad background research and unsatisfactory follow-up of issues and events. This is very dangerous to society, as it gives fuel to radical groups to play into fears and concerns in society and mobilise them for their ends.
In our media we want to provide a well-researched and interesting alternative to mainstream media reporting, with a specific focus on religious and cultural issues. We are promoting justice in journalism by employing an innovative method to story production. Our innovation is combining journalism with the expert field of conciliation. We will work closely with conciliation experts and organisations. After having gone through a few conciliation cases we will know whether it is possible to become a conciliation journalist who can lead these processes onwards, or whether our method needs a readjustment. The ultimate aim is to prevent conflicts in society before they even start.
Our work is based on the theoretical concept of conciliatory journalism. We will follow up our conciliation projects from the beginning to the end and reify a variety of voices.