Karin Ragnhild Maria Hübinette, née Pettersson (18 April 1966 in Sollentuna), is a

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journalist and television presenter. She is the sister of politician

Hillevi Engström Hillevi Maria Engström (née Pettersson; born 15 April 1963 in Sollentuna) is a Swedish former politician who served as Minister for Employment from 2010 to 2013 and as Minister for International Development Cooperation from 2013 to 2014. A me ...

. Hübinette started her career as the presenter of the debate show Svart eller vitt, which was broadcast on

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in the mid-1990s. After that she presented

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and Kvällsöppet, and was also a reporter at

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. She then worked solely for SVT presenting the news shows

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and

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. She is a board member of the company Hands on AB. When her sister

, who is a politician for the

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, became secretary of employment after the general elections in 2010, Hübinette had to resign from her work as a journalist at Agenda and Aktuellt. She however remained working at SVT, where she became a foreign reporter for the show Korrespondenterna.Karin Hübinette får nytt jobb
Expressen Retrieved 6 April 2016 One year later she started presenting her own talk show, called ''Hübinette'', which aired for two seasons in 2011 and 2012. Karin Hübinette returned to presenting Agenda in 2014, after the program changed format and added

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and others as presenters. This means that if her sister appears on the show, one of the other presenters can interview her.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hubinette, Karin Living people 1966 births Swedish journalists Swedish women journalists Swedish women television presenters Swedish television personalities Women television journalists People from Sollentuna Municipality 21st-century Swedish women