Marcus Oscarsson (born 21 March 1976) is a Swedish political commentator and journalist. He is best known as a political expert commentator for

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Early life

Marcus Oscarsson studied in Hultsfred, Sweden and then continued his studies in economy at the

Linnaeus University Linnaeus University (LNU) ( sv, Linnéuniversitetet) is a state university in the Swedish historical province (''landskap'') Småland, with two campuses located in Växjö and Kalmar respectively. Linnaeus University was established in 2010 by ...

Växjö Växjö ( ) is a city and the seat of Växjö Municipality, Kronoberg County, Sweden. It had 70,489 inhabitants (2019) out of a municipal population of 95,995 (2021). It is the administrative, cultural, and industrial centre of Kronoberg County ...

. In 2006, he started working at the Regeringskansliet for the government, and then became a trainee at the chambers of commerce in Denver.

Career

For five years Oscarsson was a local reporter for the newspaper ''Vimmerby Tidning''; he then worked at '' Barometern-OT'', a local newspaper in

Oskarshamn Oskarshamn is a coastal city and the seat of Oskarshamn Municipality, Kalmar County, Sweden with 17,258 inhabitants in 2010. History Etymology Döderhultsvik was the original name before a town charter was granted in 1856. The name was then chang ...

for twelve years. He has since also been a reporter for ''The Times'', ''The Sunday Times'', and the ''Daily Mail'', being the newspapers' reporter for the Nordic region. He has also been a reporter for ''The Daily Telegraph'' and the news bureau

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. In Sweden he has been a political commentator for TT, ''

Aftonbladet ''Aftonbladet'' (, lit. "The evening paper") is a Swedish daily newspaper published in Stockholm, Sweden. It is one of the largest daily newspapers in the Nordic countries. History and profile The newspaper was founded by Lars Johan H ...

'', and ''

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'' at SVT. He has since 2012 been the political expert for

. Since 2004, he has been a guest speaker in politics and political science at the

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. Oscarsson has commented on the US presidential election in 2012 and 2016 for TV4, as well as the Swedish general elections in Sweden for the same channel in 2014 and 2018. In 2015, he was nominated for a

Kristallen Kristallen (meaning The Crystal) is the official Swedish television award, administered by the foundation . It was created in 2005 by television producers SVT, TV3, TV4, Kanal 5 and UR. The trophy The award trophy, created by Mårten Cla ...

television award for TV personality of the Year.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Oscarsson, Marcus Living people 1976 births Swedish journalists People from Hultsfred Municipality