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Andrius Vaišnys (born on 17 July 1963 in Vilnius, Lithuania) is a Lithuanian journalist, Professor at Vilnius University and the former Dean of this University’s Faculty of Communication.

Biography
Andrius Vaišnys studied at Vilnius University, graduating with Master of Journalism Degree in 1989. Since that year, he has been a research fellow and a teacher at this University, where he has been teaching political communication, history of journalism and journalism theory. In 2003, defended the dissertation in Humanities ‘The Press and the State in Lithuania in 1918–1940’. Since 2014, Professor at Vilnius University.

In 2006–2008, Director of the Institute of Journalism at Vilnius University’s Faculty of Communication; in 2007–2017, Dean of the Faculty of Communication.

Since 2004, Editor-in Chief of the scholarly journal Parliamentary Studies of the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania and since 2009, Chairman of this journal’s Editorial Board. Since 2008, Editor-in-Chief of the journal Journalism Research of Vilnius University.

In 1993–1996, studied at the University of Warsaw, worked as a journalist and was employed as an interpreter by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland.

In 1997–2006, Head of the Public Relations Unit at the Office of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania and Head of the Press Service of the Seimas. In 1998, prepared and implemented the concept ‘Open Seimas’ endorsed by the Board of the Seimas.

In 2003–2016, public secretary of the Lituanica Committee organised by an order of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania (was preparing programmes for commemorating personalities important for the Lituanica heritage presented to the Ministry of Culture to realise).

Member of the Commission of Experts on Important Events of the Commemoration of the State (appointed by the Order of the Minister of Culture of 16 April 2018).

In 2011, initiated and prepared the bachelor study course ‘Creative Communication’ (implemented since 2012) at Vilnius University. In 2006–2008, Chairman of the Committee for the Journalism Major Study Programme. In 2006–2016, Chairman of the Committee for the Journalism Bachelor Study Programme.

In 2011–2020, Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania. Since October 2020, Director of this Library’s Department of Communication and Information.

In 2021, appointed a member of the Supreme Electoral Commission on the recommendation of the President of the Republic of Lithuania.



Research interests
Relationships between the state and media, political communication, development of state-sponsored propaganda, development of parliamentarism, cultural policy.

Creative activities
A writer of political commentaries.

Author of several children’s books.

Author of the scripts for the series of plays Kalbos vakarai (‘Language Nights’) performed in 2007–2017 by drawing upon historical sources and documents (directed by Vytenis Pauliukaitis and recorded by the Lithuanian National Radio and Television).

Author of the libretto to Algirdas Martinaitis’ opera Pasaulio dangoraižis (‘The Skyscraper of the World’) premiered in 2008.