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

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Early life

Elfsberg was born on 26 November 1948 in

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, the son of Gösta Elfsberg and his wife Gertrud (née Ahlström). 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

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, from where he dropped out to work as a trainee at the daily news program ''

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'' at

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(SVT) in 1971.

Career

Elfsberg presented ''

'' for the first time in 1975 and then worked as a

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for over thirty years, eventually earning the nickname "Mr. Rapport". He temporarily left ''Rapport'' in 2003 to host the interview program ''24 minuter'' on the SVT channel

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. He has also presented the SVT program '. From January 2005 to December 2007, Elfsberg worked as the "

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of the viewers" () at SVT. In January 2008 it was announced that Elfsberg would lead the news program ''Play Rapport'' on SVT's

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service ''

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''. 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

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programme '.

Personal life

Elfsberg is currently married to Monica Elfsberg and has three children from two earlier marriages. Daughter Hanna died from cancer in 2018.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Elfsberg, Claes 1948 births Living people Journalists from Stockholm Stockholm University alumni Swedish television journalists Swedish television news anchors