Oscar Westlund (PhD) is a full Professor focused on (digital) journalism, media and communication who created this channel to publish publicly accessible videos on important topics based on research.

Westlund is a professor at Oslo Metropolitan University since 2018, the only Scandinavian university ranked among the top 50 in Communication. Westlund is the Editor-in-Chief of Digital Journalism (since 2018), an internationally leading journal in communication. He has published multiple books, and 100+ articles, chapters and reports. His award-winning research focuses on journalism, social media, mobile media, misinformation, fact-checking, media- and information literacy. Westlund has worked at universities in Sweden, Denmark, and Norway since 2003, and has also been a research leader at the Government Offices of Sweden and served EU inquiries. He has led or participated in research council projects in Sweden, Norway, Spain, and Singapore.