Andreas Mattsson

Andreas Mattsson

Lecturer, PhD

Personal profile

Professional work

Andreas Mattsson is a lecturer and program director at the School of Journalism, Department of Communication, Lund University. 

His research and teaching explore journalism practice and the role of digital technology, often from a comparative international perspective. In 2025, he earned his PhD from the University of Helsinki with the dissertation Remaking the Newsmakers: Exploring Swedish Media Aid Interventions in Vietnamese Journalism.

Before entering academia, Andreas worked as a journalist in several Swedish news organizations and as a freelance reporter, with a strong focus on Vietnam. In 2014, he received the Swedish Red Cross Journalism Award for his reporting on boat refugees who arrived in Sweden in the early 1990s.

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 4 - Quality Education
  • SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
  • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Media and Communications
  • Media and Communication Studies
  • Law

Free keywords

  • Journalism
  • Digital journalism
  • Media Ethics
  • Journalism Pedgagogy
  • Newsroom
  • Vietnam
  • Journalism studies

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