Nils Hans Ingemar Bergström (born 13 May 1948) is a Swedish-

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and

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Biography

Bergström was born in

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. His father was a local politician of the

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and editor of the local newspaper ''

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''. He studied at Karlstad campus of the University of Gothenburg from 1967 to 1970 and earned a

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and

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. Thereafter he was employed as a secretary at the People's Party's

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office (during his studies Bergström also served as deputy chairman of the Liberal Youth of Sweden, the youth wing of the People's Party). In 1972 he became a speech writer and assistant to People's Party leader

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. He kept this role until 1980 with future party leaders

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and

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. From 1980 to 1985, Bergström was

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of the newspaper '' Nerikes Allehanda''. In addition to his work at the newspaper, Bergström studied for a

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in political science and finished his thesis in 1987. In the same year he became an

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ist for the newspaper ''

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'', and became its executive editor in 1995. From 2000 to 2001, he studied at

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and at

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, in the

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. During these studies he wrote the study ''Age in the Press'', published by the

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in 2001. From 2001 to 2003, Bergström again served as executive editor of ''Dagens Nyheter''. Since 2003 he is an independent columnist for the newspaper. Bergström currently lives in southern

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and in

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in the United States. Bergström has a son from an earlier marriage. He is now married to Barbara. Bergström became a

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in 2007.

References

External links

Bergström's column in ''Dagens Nyheter''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bergstrom, Hans 1948 births Living people People from Torsby Municipality Dagens Nyheter journalists Swedish political scientists Swedish emigrants to the United States Stanford University alumni Harvard University alumni Karlstad University alumni Dagens Nyheter editors