Аннотация:Sex scandals have become a recurring feature of political journalism worldwide. This article discusses the blurring line which divides public from private in contemporary media reporting and explores the changes sweeping Finnish political journalism. The intimate life of politicians has long been a taboo subject in Finnish journalism, but this has been slowly changing since the early 2000s. This article focuses on two cases including the various sex allegations made against Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen in 2005–2009 and the text-messaging scandal involving the Minister of Foreign Affairs Ilkka Kanerva in 2005 and 2008. Our argument is that scandals have the effect of softening the boundaries between different media and creating greater coherence in the media field.
