Malin Picha Edwardsson

Malin Picha Edwardsson is a trained journalist and worked as an editor for 15 years before starting as a project assistant and project manager in various digital development projects at the Swedish Media Publishers’ Association in 2006. In 2010, she became an industrial PhD-student in Media technology at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and defended her PhD thesis in May 2015 with the title: Towards a sustainable media system – Explorative studies of emerging media consumption trends and media processes for content production. After a postdoc at KTH, she was hired as a senior lecturer in journalism at Södertörn University in August 2017, became the Head of department and taught courses from A-level to C and Master until October 2025 when she was hired as a senior lecturer/assistant professor i media and communication studies at Jönköping University.

Between 2015 and 2017 her research focus was on digital storytelling, and she finished a research project in collaboration with media companies Bonnier News, Schibsted and Swedish Radio in February 2017. The project explored drivers and barriers for digital storytelling with emerging technologies in traditional media companies.
Between 2017 and 2019, she joined a research project in collaboration with Sveriges Radio Östergötland and Norrköpings Tidningar Media on automated news gathering in public municipal registries.
During 2019 and 2020 she worked together with colleague Walid Al-Saqaf and the Swedish company Storylab, in a research project with focus on how blockchain technology can be used in fact-checking, to see what opportunities this technology might have for journalism in the future.
In 2021, she collaborated with Media & Democracy at Lindholmen Science Park in Gothenburg, and the local newspaper Sydöstran in the region of Blekinge around the development of local journalism in the region of Blekinge.
In 2022, she participated, together with her colleague Maria Zuiderveld, in another research collaboration with Media & Democracy in a project involving local media companies and libraries in western Sweden with the aim to create more public debates and new democratic arenas leading up to the general elections in 2022. In 2023-2025, the collaboration with Media & Democracy developed further in a research project on how local newspapers' and libraries' information dissemination can be strengthened in the event of crisis and war.