About Tobias

Tobias Wahlqvist has run his own communications and media production business since 2001. In 2015, in the middle of a burnout, he stopped following the news, expecting to feel lost. Instead he became happier, more focused and, to his surprise, at least as well informed as before. He has spent the decade since studying why, through evolutionary psychology, neuroscience, and media economics.

His first book on the subject, Skippa nyheterna, was published in Sweden and made him a recurring expert voice on news avoidance on Sweden’s main television channels, SVT and TV4. He gave the TEDxStockholm talk “Why reducing exposure to news makes you happier”. Skip the News, written in English for an international audience, is a substantially expanded successor. He lives in Nacka, outside Stockholm.