Matti Kuusela

Matti Kuusela (born 12 June 1956) is a retired Finnish journalist. He worked for Aamulehti for nearly 40 years. Kuusela received many journalism awards in his career. In 2024, Kuusela revealed in his autobiography, that he has written self-invented material in his articles.

Career Kuusela started his career in 1981 and worked as a regular journalist for Aamulehti from 1983 to 2020, when he retired. After this, Kuusela worked as an occasional assistant for Iltalehti. Kuusela worked as a sports reporter, editor of the Sunday pages and from 2000 as a culture journalist.

Matti Apunen was the editor-in-chief of Aamulehti between 1998 and 2010. He has defended Kuusela's experimental style and has said he understands the context in which the stories have been published. Apunen says that there should be room for experimentation and play in journalism, as long as the context is clear. According to Apunen, the limits are absolute in news articles, but an experimental body text is a different matter.

In May 2023, Iltalehti had to remove 33 articles about the Russian invasion of Ukraine from its website. The magazine's investigation raised unethical concerns in the assistant's activities, such as the misuse of images at different times and places. This also raised doubts about the truthfulness of the information in other stories.