# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/matti-ronka
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:34:27.568Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/matti-ronka"
name: "Matti Rönkä"
slug: "matti-ronka"
description: "Matti Rönkä is a Finnish TV journalist and novelist. He received the Glass Key award in 2007 for the crime novel Ystävät kaukana and the Deutscher Krimi Preis third prize in 2008 for the German translation of his novel Tappajan näköinen mies (2002). He has been the anchor of the daily news program 20:30 National Report since 2003 on Yle, thus inheriting the nickname \"Suomen ääni\" from the program's old host Arvi Lind."
tagline: "Finnish writer and newscaster"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Matti_R%C3%B6nk%C3%A4.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1959-09-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.63
  momentum:             0.78125
  historical:           12.27411866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/mattirnk"
    handle:    "mattirnk"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1869498/"
    handle:    "nm1869498"
sources:
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    title: "Matti Rönkä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ماتى رونكا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Matti Rönkä"
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    title: "Matti Rönkä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matti_R%C3%B6nk%C3%A4"
    title: "Matti Rönkä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matti_R%C3%B6nk%C3%A4"
    title: "Matti Rönkä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matti_R%C3%B6nk%C3%A4"
    title: "Matti Rönkä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matti_R%C3%B6nk%C3%A4"
    title: "Matti Rönkä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matti_R%C3%B6nk%C3%A4"
    title: "Matti Rönkä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Matti Rönkä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Matti Rönkä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matti_R%C3%B6nk%C3%A4"
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    title: "Рёнкя, Матти"
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    title: "Matti Rönkä"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump