Marcus Sture Vilhelm Oskarsson (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) () is a state university in the Swedish historical province (''landskap'') Småland, with campuses located in Växjö and Kalmar. Linnaeus University was established in 2010 by a merger of former Växjö University a ...

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. 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 chan ...

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, ''

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'', 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

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television award for TV personality of the Year.

References

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