Katja Lehtisaari

Doctor of Social Sciences Katja Lehtisaari is a University Researcher at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki and Editor-in-Chief of ‘Idäntutkimus’, the Finnish review for Russian and East European Studies. Having background in journalism, she completed doctoral dissertation on Russian business journalism in 2009 and has since worked at University of Helsinki. She is scholar at the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Russian Studies and member of Helsinki Media Policy Research Group. Her research topics have varied from changing media structures and journalism to media business and media policy, often in international, comparative setting. Recent projects look at media regulation and freedom of speech in Russia, media and security in Central Asia, and hyperlocal publishing in Finland. She has coordinated research on new business models of news media in United States, Nordic countries and Finland. She was Visiting Research Fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford, UK, in 2015.

Academic bio page for Dr. Lehtisaari can be found here.