Council for Mass Media in Finland is a self-regulatory organ of the Finnish mass-media. It controls the journalist related to the publishers, who has adopted the good journalistic instructions and makes resolutions on the bases of the appeals. It was established in 1968 and one of its goals was to diminish the need for juridical investigations in the courts mainly caused by the critic of the leftist radicals in the late 1960s.

Chairmen since 1978

Council for Mass Media in Finland has had earlier times low-profile chairmen, but since Jacob Söderman

Jacob Söderman

Jacob-Magnus Söderman is a Finnish Member of Parliament since September 2007 until 2011...

 the chairmen have given statements not only related to the techinical side of the work or resolutions.

Chairmen
1978–1990	Henrik Grönqvist
1990–	Raimo Pekkanen
1996–1999	Kari Lehtola
1999–2003	Olli Mäenpää
2003–2005	Jacob Söderman Jacob Söderman Jacob-Magnus Söderman is a Finnish Member of Parliament since September 2007 until 2011...
2005–2007	Kalevi Kivistö
2008–2009	Pekka Hyvärinen
2010→	Risto Uimonen