Torbjorn Sassersson (May 8, 1965-) is an award-winning freelance journalist, communications consultant, editor, lecturer, film producer, and television personality, whose areas of expertise are in IT, online PR, media content production with a special interest in societal and geopolitical changes.
During the years 1993-1995, he was working as an environmental consultant. 1995-1997 he was active within the Swedish bioenergy industry.
Since 1997 Torbjorn Sassersson has been working as a communications consultant for many big and small organizations in his own company Sasser Media Lab as a contractor. He was Web Editor in Chief at the headquarters of the Danish Bank in 2008-2009.
Torbjorn Sassersson also had a company ”Smart Home Media” (1999-2002) dealing with IT homes. The company was sponsored by Swedish corporations such as Skanska.com, Provider.com, Vattenfall.com (Sensel), and Ericsson.com (BlueLabs).
In 2011 he founded NewsVoice.se a news channel publishing investigative journalism and monitoring international news for the Swedish audience.
Sassersson was one of four founders of Stockholm Group World Trade and Investments (SG), first as an association in 2013 and in 2015 as a consultant company promoting trade with Swedish cleantech, transport, and energy technologies. He left SG in May 2015 to work full time with NewsVoice. Stockholm Group has since then discontinued its operations.
Personal life
Torbjorn is married to F. Sassersson from Cameroon. They have two kids. F. Sassersson was born in a military family (Northwest Cameroon).
Education
Torbjorn Sassersson attended Stockholm University where he 1989-1992 studied environmental protection – Study Programme in Biology and Earth Sciences. After graduation (fil kand.) Torbjorn Sassersson studied information technology at Academedia in 1995, Stockholm. During the following years, he has gone through different IT educations pertinent to his commissions as a consultant.
On-line publications
Torbjorn Sassersson is the editor of several online blogs such as The Skeptical School (Skeptikerskolan.se) Sweden’s first online education (currently only in Swedish) about rhetorics and how to become a super skeptic. However, the true purpose of the Skeptical School is to debunk debunkers.
In 2011 he founded NewsVoice.se [not NewsVoice.com] a debate and news channel publishing investigative journalism and monitoring international news for the Swedish audience.
Torbjorn Sassersson is editor in chief (2017-2020) for TV Helse a Norwegian health magazine.
Torbjorn Sassersson lecturer
Torbjorn Sassersson gives lectures on social media, online reputation management, web PR, and on the health and the ”sick industry” (Big Pharma).
Awards
- ”The Pen”, 2016, Humanism & Science, for his work with NewsVoice
- ”Braveheart of the year”, 2015, Soul Aid Gala i Stockholm, for his work with NewsVoice
Special skills
Due to his interest in scientific research on extrasensory perception Torbjorn Sassersson studied both theoretically and practically a mental technique called remote viewing developed by SRI International, one of the biggest think tanks in the US. He has also trained using the Monroe Institute Gateway program. Torbjorn Sassersson has been featured three times in scientific experiments on Swedish TV (two were successful).
During his military service he was a crypto operator as a part of the Swedish armed forces stationed 1984 at Gotland spying on the Soviet Union.
Sport skills: PADI (Dive Master), Ju Jutsu (3 kyu), Aikido (3 kyu), Tai-Ji, Xing-i, Kendo.
Appearances: TV, radio and press
Sassersson was featured three times as an experimental subject for tests on extra sensory perception and a mental technique called remote viewing in the Swedish TV series ”The Unknown” (”Det okända”, TV4 Plus) and also in a documentary. First appearance in Dec 8, 2004 (Archive n:o TVS05-21718-21721. Source: The National Library of Sweden – The Department of Audiovisual Material (abbr. NLS-DAM) and in Nov 23, 2005 (Archive n:o XA_TV4TV4PLUS_20051123).
Torbjorn Sassersson also took part in a radio show in Apr 27, 2006 produced by ”Red Ice Creations” as one of the first three interview subjects.
In Dec 15, 2005 Sassersson was featured in Swedish Television (SVT) in the show ”Good Morning Sweden” (”Gomorron Sverige”, Archive n:o 20-05/8620-247. NLS-DAM) debating extra sensory perception with a previous Swedish government advisor Christer Sturmark.
Torbjorn was interviewed by the Swedish public service radio station P1 and the radio series called ”Tendency” (”Tendens”, archive n:o XASRP1_20070206. NLS-DAM) in Feb 6, 2007.
In Aug 26, 2009 Torbjorn Sassersson was featured on TV4, one of the biggest commercial TV channels in Sweden, concerning remote viewing as a part of the documentary ”The big grey” on remote viewing (”Det stora grå”, Archive n:o XATV4TV4 20090826. NLS-DAM).
In Feb 26, 2009 Torbjorn Sassersson was also featured in the public service channel SVT in the TV series called ”Brainstorm” (”Hjärnstorm”, Archive n:o DVCPRO TVB-20090271. NLS-DAM).
He also was featured in the documentary film ”The Health Paradigm”, in 2017.
Sassersson has been featured as a guest in NyaDagbladets.se pod several times (2017-).
Filmography
The Stargate Remote Viewer: The documentary is a dramatized deep interview with Joseph McMoneagle a former intelligence officer employed by the US Army and known from the Stargate Project. Reg n:o VR10-0010, The National Library of Sweden – The Department of Audiovisual Material. The documentary was co-produced with Ivar Edding and Annelie Paulsen (camera). Factual TV Network was broadcasting the documentary online for some years. Torbjorn Sassersson and Ivar Edding are credited as producers etc.