Claes Elfsberg

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Claes Elfsberg at the premiere of Hamilton: In the Interest of the Nation in January 2012.

Claes-Gösta Elfsberg (born 26 November 1948) is a Swedish television journalist.

Early life[edit]

Elfsberg was born on 26 November 1948 in Stockholm, the son of Gösta Elfsberg and his wife Gertrud (née Ahlström).[1] Elfsberg grew up in the district of Svedmyra in southern Stockholm.

He received his upper-secondary education at Norra Real in Stockholm and then studied at the Department of Journalism, Media and Communication (JMK) at Stockholm University, from where he dropped out to work as a trainee at the daily news program Rapport at Sveriges Television (SVT) in 1971.[2]

Career[edit]

Elfsberg presented Rapport for the first time in 1975 and then worked as a news presenter for over thirty years, eventually earning the nickname "Mr. Rapport".[3] He temporarily left Rapport in 2003 to host the interview program 24 minuter on the SVT channel SVT24. He has also presented the SVT program Dokument utifrån [sv]. From January 2005 to December 2007, Elfsberg worked as the "ombudsman of the viewers" (Swedish: tittarombudsman) at SVT.[3][4] In January 2008 it was announced that Elfsberg would lead the news program Play Rapport on SVT's video on demand service SVT Play.[5] Elfsberg presented the news programme Aktuellt between March 2012 and November 30, 2015, and since January 15, 2016 has been the Friday presenter for the breakfast television programme Gomorron Sverige [sv].[6]

Elfsberg is currently married to Monica Elfsberg and has three children from two earlier marriages.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Jönsson, Lena, ed. (2000). Vem är det: svensk biografisk handbok. 2001 [Who is it: Swedish biographical handbook. 2001] (in Swedish). Stockholm: Norstedt. p. 284. ISBN 9172850426. SELIBR 8261515.
  2. ^ Hagen, Cecilia (2008-01-13). "Det finns saker som jag ångrar". Expressen (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 2008-03-18. Retrieved 2008-04-01.
  3. ^ a b "Elfsberg blir ombudsman för publiken" (in Swedish). Sveriges Television. 2004-11-30. Archived from the original on 2010-11-30. Retrieved 2008-04-01.
  4. ^ Wijnbladh, Olof (2007-11-13). "Elfsberg slutar som tittarombudsman". Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). Retrieved 2008-04-01.
  5. ^ "Claes Elfsberg leder Play Rapport - SVT:s nya nyhetskanal på webben" (Press release) (in Swedish). Sveriges Television. 2008-01-03. Archived from the original on 2011-06-12. Retrieved 2008-04-01.
  6. ^ Claes Elfsberg lättar ankar