Lasse Bengtsson

Not to be confused with Lars Bengtsson.

Lars Olov "Lasse" Bengtsson (born 22 December 1951) is a Swedish journalist and television presenter.^[1] He has been the presenter of shows such as Nyhetsmorgon Lördag, TV4-nyheterna, Misstänkt, and he also was a reporter for the Swedish broadcasts of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

Bengtsson in 2013

Career

Bengtsson has worked for Sveriges Radio, TV4 and Viasat.^[1] His first journalist work was for a local radio station in Malmfältet during the miners strike there.^[2] After that he worked for Sveriges Radio; among the shows he appeared on was Dagens Eko, and he was also a foreign correspondent, news-presenter, reporter and producer for the same show.^[3] In 1991 he started working for TV4 when he presented the news morning show Nyhetsmorgon Lördag, and TV4-nyheterna.^[4] One of his first jobs for TV4 was travelling to Bosnia to report on the Bosnian war and the refugees there.^[4] He also conducted the first televised interview with Mattias Flink in March 2009, about fifteen years after Flink committed mass murder.^[1]

Bengtsson became the presenter of the show Misstänkt which had its premiere on 2 April 2009.^[5] The show was a crime show with a journalist angle.^[5] Bengtsson left TV4 on 1 September 2010 and started working as the information coordinator for the Swedish Afghanistan committee in Kabul.^[4][6] In August 2014 he returned to Sveriges Radio where he presented P4 Extra, substituting for Lotta Bromé at times.^[7] In his first show on P4 Extra he interviewed the skier Charlotte Kalla.^[8]

In 2016, he was a reporter for Viasat's broadcasting of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.^[9] He made a report from a favela called Cidade de Deus.^[10]