''Helsinki Times'' is the first English-language daily

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providing domestic and international news for the country's English-speaking readers. A weekly printed edition was issued between 2007 and 2015.

History

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

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ian-born doctor, writer, journalist and director Alexis Kouros, who settled in Finland in 1990. A paper version was published in

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and was eventually discontinued in February 2015. However, ''helsinkitimes.fi'' is updated several times per day with domestic news about Finland in English, resulting in a large archive of Finland-related articles. ''Helsinki Times'' has had partnerships with ''

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'', ''

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

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'', where ''Helsinki Times'' was the official English-language edition of . 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 ''Helsinki Times'' website. Nowadays, ''Helsinki Times'' is a free

published by media company Dream Catcher. Notable guest columnists included

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, Calestous Juma, Pekka Haavisto,

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, Cynthia McKinney, Giovanni Buttarelli, Jutta Urpilainen, Sanni Grahn-Laasonen, Bill Durodié, Veltto Virtanen, and Maria Guzenina. Apart from ''Helsinki Times'', award-winning documentaries and TV series, and books, Dream Catcher also publishes '' SixDegrees'', an online service featuring articles and columns about lifestyle, culture, society, as well as interviews and weekly guest contributions by immigrants in Finland.What is SixDegrees?
6d.fi. Retrieved on 22 July 2016. The website has republished articles from the ''

'', the official newspaper of the

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. In 2020, the ''Helsinki Times'' published an article from the ''People's Daily'' which included a conspiracy theory about the origins of COVID-19. The ''Helsinki Times'' said the "barter-exchange" arrangement with the ''People's Daily'' was an attempt to balance western media coverage which it said was "at times extremely one-sided and biased".

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