Lars Olov "Lasse" Bengtsson (born 22 December 1951) is a Swedish journalist and television presenter. He has been the presenter of shows such as ''Nyhetsmorgon Lördag'' ("Newsmorning Saturday"), ''TV4 News'', ''Misstänkt'' ("Suspected"), and he also was a reporter for the Swedish broadcasts of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

Career

Bengtsson has worked for

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and

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. His first journalist work was for a local radio station in Malmfätet during the miners strike there. After that he worked for Sveriges Radio; amongst the shows he appeared on was ''Dagens Eko'' ("Today's Eccho), and he was also a foreign correspondent, news-presenter, reporter and producer for the same show. In 1991 he started working for TV4 when he presented the news morning show ''Nyhetsmorgon Lördag'', and ''TV4 News''. One of his first jobs for TV4 was travelling to

Bosnia Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh, / , ), abbreviated BiH () or B&H, sometimes called Bosnia–Herzegovina and often known informally as Bosnia, is a country at the crossroads of south and southeast Europe, located in the Balkans. Bosnia and He ...

to report on the

Bosnian war The Bosnian War ( sh, Rat u Bosni i Hercegovini / Рат у Босни и Херцеговини) was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995. The war is commonly seen as having started ...

and the refugees there. He also conducted the first televised interview with

Mattias Flink Mattias Flink (born 8 March 1970) is a Swedish people, Swedish spree killer who killed seven people on June 11, 1994, in Falun, Sweden. At the time, he was a second lieutenant in the Swedish Army. He was released from prison on 11 June 2014, ex ...

in March 2009, about fifteen years after Flink committed mass murder. Bengtsson became the presenter of the show ''Misstänkt'' ("Suspected") which had its premiere on 2 April 2009. The show was a crime show with a journalist angle. Bengtsson left TV4 on 1 September 2010 and started working as the information coordinator for the Swedish Afghanistan committee in Kabul. In August 2014 he returned to Sveriges Radio where he presented ''P4 Extra'', substituting for

Lotta Bromé Charlotta "Lotta" Bromé (born 18 December 1964) is a Swedish radio and television presenter and host. She has been a Christmas Eve host at SVT, won the show ''På spåret'' and hosted various shows for Sveriges Radio. Early life Bromé was bo ...

at times. In his first show on ''P4 Extra'' he interviewed the skier

Charlotte Kalla Marina Charlotte Kalla (born 22 July 1987 in Tärendö) is a Swedish cross-country skier who has been competing at international level since the 2003–04 season. Kalla is a three-time Olympian, winning her first Olympic gold medal at the 2010 Wi ...

. In 2016, he was a reporter for

's broadcasting of the

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...

Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a b ...

. He made a report from a

favela Favela () is an umbrella name for several types of working-class neighborhoods in Brazil. The term was first used in the Providência neighborhood in the center of Rio de Janeiro in the late 19th century, which was built by soldiers who had ...

called Cidade de Deus.

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