Laura Saarikoski is a member of the Reuters Institute's Advisory Board. 

Saarikoski is the CEO of the Helsingin Sanomat Media Foundation, which supports media research, quality journalism and freedom of speech. Previously, she was an editor-in-chief and an award-winning US Correspondent at the Helsingin Sanomat, the leading newspaper of Finland. As a professor of practice at the Tampere University, she co-authored a piece of research in 2026 about AI use in media.

In 2011–12 Saarikoski was a Journalist Fellow at the Reuters Institute, where she worked on a project on how to lead journalists in the digital age.