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August grant call awards funding to two projects and seven master’s theses
The Foundation’s Board has decided on the results of the August calls for master’s thesis grants, project grants and project idea papers. A total of €447,538 was awarded in funding. Congratulations to all the grant recipients!
The August calls closed on 31 August 2026. The Foundation received 4 project applications, 39 project idea papers and 28 applications for master’s thesis grants.
€437,038 awarded to two projects
Four project applications were received. The Board awarded funding to two projects:
Researchers of Emotional Climate, Karoliina Talvitie-Lamberg, University of Jyväskylä – €220,034
Emotions are an often overlooked aspect of journalistic work, and there is limited knowledge in the media sector about emotional labour and its impact on the quality of media content. The project examines the emotional climate in newsrooms and the role that emotions and a shared emotional climate play in contemporary media work.
Stories of the Future, Elise Kraatila, Tampere University – €217,004
The project examines how knowledge about the future is produced in journalism dealing with threats and opportunities, and what role scenario work and storytelling play in this process. The research also explores the reliability and responsibility of journalistic knowledge about the future. The project will result in an openly published, peer-reviewed nonfiction book in Finnish.
€10,500 awarded to seven master’s theses
In August, the Foundation organised a separate call for grants to complete a master’s thesis for the first time. A total of 28 students applied for the €1,500 grant, and seven applicants were awarded a grant.
The grants were awarded to:
- Jutta Kuusitaipale: Views of aspiring journalists on building source networks
- Eedit Taipale: Grant for completing a master’s thesis
- Hanne Vuorela: Alliance journalism towards the West in Finnish media
- Noora Hakulinen: Opposition MPs’ experiences of receiving attention from the news media
- Jasmin Ojalainen: Spiritual way of doing politics – Analysis of conspiratorial discourse on rapsodia.info
- Marissa M. Uuhka: Master’s thesis: “How do you write about something there is no information about?”
- Erja Ronkainen: Master’s thesis: Alienation as a concept in media studies
A total of €10,500 was awarded in master’s thesis grants.
