Torbjörn Sassersson (May 8, 1965-) is an award-winning freelance journalist, communications consultant, editor, lecturer, video producer, and television personality. His areas of expertise are independent journalism, IT, online PR, and content production, with a special interest in societal and geopolitical changes.

From 1993 to 1995, he worked as an environmental consultant. From 1995 to 1997, he was active in the Swedish bioenergy industry.

Since 1997, Torbjorn Sassersson has worked as a contractor and communications consultant for many big and small organisations in his company, Sasser Media Lab.

He was Web Editor-in-Chief at the headquarters of the Danish Bank from 2008 to 2009.

Torbjorn Sassersson founded (with two other partners) the site “Smart Home Media” (1999-2002), dealing with smart homes (Smarta Hem Media Ltd). The company was sponsored by Swedish big corporations such as Skanska.com, Provider.com, Vattenfall.com (Sensel), and Ericsson.com (BlueLabs).

In 2011, he founded NewsVoice.se, a bilingual news, news monitoring and debate channel publishing investigative journalism, opinion articles, and international news for the Swedish audience.

His company acquired TV Helse, a Norwegian health online site, and Humanism & Science in 2023.

Sassersson was one of four founders of Stockholm Group World Trade and Investments (Stockholm Group), established as an association in 2013 and later in 2015 as a consultant company promoting international trade with Swedish cleantech, transport, and energy technologies. He left in May 2015 to work full-time with NewsVoice because the Stockholm Group became a player in the arms industry.

He was featured in the documentary film “The Health Paradigm” in 2017 and other TV productions.

In 2015, Sassersson worked briefly in Africa doing investigative reporting (some reports were never published due to safety concerns).

In 2023, he became interested in covering the development of the multipolar world, the BRICS, and the Belt and Road Initiative. The Chinese embassy invited him to travel to China and visit the Shanghai Institute of International Studies. Since then, there have been several invitations to different countries.

In 2023, Sassersson received press accreditation from the Swedish Riksdag (Government) and was approved as a journalist to attend press briefings and exercises by the Swedish Defence.

Personal life

Torbjorn is married to F. Sassersson from Cameroon. They have two kids.

Education

Torbjorn Sassersson attended Stockholm University, where he studied environmental protection—Study Programme in Biology and Earth Sciences from 1989 to 1992. After graduation (fil kand.), Torbjorn Sassersson studied information technology at Academedia in 1995, Stockholm. During the following years, he received various IT training relevant to his roles as a consultant.

Awards

• “The Pen”, 2016, Humanism & Science, for his work with NewsVoice
• “Braveheart of the year”, 2015, Soul Aid Gala in Stockholm, for his work with NewsVoice