Official reports on the media

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Find government reports and other public investigations on media and on freedom of expression in the Nordic countries.

Updates are normally published once year, in December /January.

The list for Denmark is planned to be updated later in 2021.

Finnish official reports and studies, from 2000

The list includes official reports from the Ministry of Education and Culture (copyright issues, information society, media literacy, etc.), the Ministry of Transport and Communications (television, radio and support to other media), and the Ministry of Justice (freedom of speech). The reports are also listed in the Institutional Repository (Valto) (publication series from all Finnish ministries).

The reports are usually in Finnish, with English and Swedish summaries.

Download the list of Finnish publications (in Finnish and English, PDF updated in April 2021)

Official Norwegian Reports (NOU) and white papers, from 1972

A list of Official Norwegian Reports (NOU series) and Reports to the Storting (white papers) concerning the media, available online. The Official Norwegian Reports are from 1972 and onwards, while the white papers are from 1996 onwards. Publications not available online may be ordered at the Norwegian Government’s web page

Download the list of Norwegian reports (in Norwegian, PDF updated in February 2021)

Swedish Government Official Reports (SOU), from 1922

The list includes links to Government Official Reports (SOU series) available online. For reports from 2000 and onwards, the links lead to PDF documents published on the Government's website, while older SOU reports, from 1922 to 1999, have been digitized by the Swedish National Library and published as PDF documents in the Regina database.

Reports accessible via the Regina database have keywords to facilitate searches. However, keywords are not added to the reports accessible via the government’s website.

Download the list of Swedish reports (in Swedish, PDF updated in January 2020)

Danish official reports and studies, from 2000

The list covers Government Official Reports and state institutions’ studies, found primarily at the Administrative Library, which is the central library and documentation centre for civil servants within the Danish central government. Among other tasks, the Administrative Library has the obligation to collect and make state institutions’ digital publications available through their database, where most of these publications are available through permanent links.