Jörgen Huitfeldt

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Huitfeldt at the 2018 Gothenburg Book Fair.

Jörgen Huitfeldt (born 10 March 1970) is a Swedish journalist.

Education[]

Huitfeldt has studied German and history at Uppsala university in Sweden and Universität Tübingen in Germany. He also studied journalism, media and communication at JMK, Stockholm University.[1]

Work at Sveriges Radio[]

Huitfeldt worked 1998–2017 at Sveriges Radio Ekot, initially as a reporter and later as a producer and host for P1-morgon and Studio Ett.

During his time at Sveriges Radio P1, Huitfeldt established himself as one of the best interviewers in Sweden,[1] and when he left to work at  [sv] he was one of P1's most celebrated profiles.[2]

Work at Kvartal[]

Since October 2017, Huitfeldt works at ,[3] an independent media house, and since January 2019 Huitfeldt is editor-in-chief.[4] He also conducts long format interviews in Fredagsintervjun and occasionally hosts the weekly program Veckopanelen.[5]

The first guest in Fredagsintervjun was Sweden's former prime minister, Göran Persson,[6] and the second was Sweden's former justice minister, Beatrice Ask, and among later guests of politicians, academics and writers (interviewed by Huitfeldt or his colleague Staffan Dopping) are Anders Borg, Andreas Norlén, Ann Linde, Jordan B Peterson, Mark Weiner, Matias Faldbakken, Terje Tvedt, P. C. Jersild and Ayaan Hirsi Ali.[5]

Awards[]

Huitfeldt has won several awards for his work. He has been nominated to Stora journalistpriset (The Swedish Grand Prize for Journalism) in 2006 and Guldspaden in 2009.

Since 2018 he is a member of the jury for Stora journalistpriset.[7]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Thomas Nilsson. "Jörgen Huitfeldt: 'Journalistiken ska inte uppfostra sin publik'", resume.se, 19 January 2018.
  2. ^ Emil Arvidson. "'Integriteten bland oss journalister var ju noll'", Expressen, 10 November 2017.
  3. ^ Hanna Lundquist. "Huitfeldt lämnar Sveriges Radio", journalisten.se, 20 oktober 2017.
  4. ^ "Jörgen Huitfeldt at Kvartal", kvartal.se.
  5. ^ a b "Kvartal's rss feed for podcasts", acast.com.
  6. ^ Hanna Jakobson. "Persson: Naiv flyktingpolitik – det straffade sig hårt" (archived) Expressen, 10 November 2017.
  7. ^ "Jörgen Huitfeldt, Chefredaktör Tidskriften Kvartal", storajournalistpriset.se.

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