EEOwnership & classification
Founded: 2007
Ownership
ERR News is the English-language news service of ERR (Eesti Rahvusringhääling), Estonia's national public broadcaster. It is part of the same public-law body established on 1 June 2007 under the Estonian Public Broadcasting Act through the merger of Eesti Televisioon and Eesti Raadio. ERR is owned by no private company or party and is overseen by a Broadcasting Council appointed via the Estonian parliament.
Funding
Funded from the Estonian state budget as part of ERR's overall public-service financing (roughly EUR 56.6 million for ERR in 2025), with no licence fee and no commercial advertising on its core output. The EU has noted concerns that this budget-based model may not be adequately predictable.
Affiliation & stance
As an English-language desk of the public broadcaster, ERR News follows ERR's public-service standards of impartiality and editorial independence and has no party allegiance. Being a state-budget-funded public broadcaster service, it is classified STATE (public broadcaster).
Editorial lean
- Our estimate
- Center
- Measured from coverage
- Not enough analyzed coverage yet.
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Factual
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Objective
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reports
Factual: How accurately its articles report the facts, judged against primary sources and the cross-outlet consensus. Only articles that cite their sources are counted.
Objective: How neutral the writing is — whether reporting keeps the writer’s own preferences and opinions out of the article.