
Jessikka Aro

Jessikka Aro
Jessikka Aro is an award-winning reporter with Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company, specializing in Russia, extremism and information warfare. In 2014 and 2015, she published a series of articles on pro-Kremlin social media trolls and their influence outside of Russia’s borders. Due to her investigations, Jessikka became the target of a severe and still ongoing international propaganda and hate speech campaign, which she recounts in Putin’s Trolls.
In 2019, the US State Department awarded Jessikka the International Women of Courage Award, but the award was mysteriously rescinded by the Trump administration, allegedly due to her social media criticism of then President Trump. On December 1, 2020 Jessikka Aro received the International Women’s Media Foundation Courage in Journalism Award, presented in partnership with the Washington Post and hosted by CNN’s Christiane Amanpour. Jessikka was recognized for her award-winning investigative reporting of Russian information warfare. Jessikka lives in Helsinki, Finland.
Jessikka Aro’s Festival appearance is generously supported by FILI – Finnish Literature Exchange.
Jessikka Aro appears as part of Nordic Bridges 2022.
Jessikka Aro is published by IG Publishing
Photo Credit: Nelli Kivinen
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September 23, 2022
at 7:30pm
TIFA Event
Critical Conversation: The New West: Europe from the Nordic frontier
Jessikka Aro and Robert Baines
September 23, 2022 at 7:30pm

September 22, 2022
at 8pm
TIFA Event
Critical Conversation: Russia: Why Now and What Next?
Jessikka Aro and Timothy Frye
September 22, 2022 at 8pm