I earned my PhD (in Journalism and Mass Communication) from Göteborg University in 2001. I did a postdoc (funded by STINT) at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2002-03. I lived and worked in the UK from 2002 to 2013, working at the University of Leicester, Roehampton University and the University of Oxford (from 2007 to 2013). In 2013 I moved back to Sweden to take up a Professorship in Media and Communication at Karlstad University.
My main research interests are journalistic working conditions and working practices; comparative journalism research; the history of media and journalism; digitalization and convergence; and popular culture. I have published extensively on these topics in journals such as Journalism, Journalism Studies, Journalism Practice, International Journal of Press/Politics, Communication Theory, and International Journal of Popular Culture. My most recent book is Newsworkers: A Comparative European Perspective (Bloomsbury, 2016). I am the Editor-in-Chief for the Oxford Encyclopedia of Journalism Studies, out from Oxford University Press in 2020.
My current research projects deal with the gig economy and the mediatization of work; as well as the transformation of journalism from a full-time occupation to a part-time side job.
