John Chrispinsson

John Knut Chrispinsson (13 December 1956 – 3 April 2017) was a Swedish journalist, author and television presenter.[1] He worked mostly in TV and radio with news programmes and historical programmes. Chrispinsson also wrote several books on Swedish history.[2]

John Chrispinsson
Chrispinsson in 2011
Born
John Knut Chrispinsson

(1956-12-13)13 December 1956
Died3 April 2017(2017-04-03) (aged 60)
OccupationTelevision presenter, Journalist

Chrispinsson started to work as a journalist for Strengnäs Tidning, Expressen and Sveriges Radio.[3] In 1988 he started to work for SVT, and presented programmes including Svepet; Gomorron Sverige; the Wedding of Prince Carl Philip and Sofia Hellqvist; Melodifestivalen 1989 with Yvonne Ryding; Röda rummet and Bokbussen.[1][4][3][5] He co-hosted eight live broadcasts from the Nobel Prize festivities in Stockholm between 2001 and 2011.

In 1990 he started working for Sveriges Radio P1 where he presented Förmiddag i P1 and Direkt.[1] He then spent most of the 1990s presenting the news show Kanalen.[6] He also was producer of the radio show Historiska klubben.[7]

Chrispinsson collapsed suddenly from a heart attack outside a gym and died on 3 April 2017. Previously, he had suffered from borrelia.[3]

Bibliography
  • Sekelskiften: en krönika om sex, makt och pengar. Stockholm: Norstedt. 1999. ISBN 91-1-300541-3
  • Stockholmsutställningar. Stockholms historia. Stockholm: Historiska Media. 2007. ISBN 978-91-85377-08-4
  • G. A. Reuterholm: den gråtande diktatorn. Stockholm: Prisma. 2008. ISBN 978-91-518-5115-0
  • Den glömda historien: om svenska öden och äventyr i öster under tusen år. Stockholm: Norstedt. 2011. ISBN 978-91-1-302524-7
gollark: Through unfathomable financial processes they can apparently do this forever to a limited extent.
gollark: Mostly they just borrow ridiculous amounts of money.
gollark: In governments they'll just borrow more, yes.
gollark: There have been calls to scrap the TV license and just fund it through taxes. Which would be basically the same functionally.
gollark: No, I mean the "we do worse things so you can't criticise this somewhat bad thing" thing does not make sense. Unless you want to justify this "PBS" on its own merits, in which case do so, or actually don't as I don't really care.

References
  1. "John Chrispinsson är död" (in Swedish). Dagens Media. Retrieved 4 April 2017.
  2. "John spånar på nästa bok" (in Swedish). Allehanda. Retrieved 4 April 2017.
  3. "Programledaren John Chrispinsson har avlidit". Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). 4 April 2017. Retrieved 4 April 2017.
  4. ""Det gäller att fokusera på att det är vår dag"" (in Swedish). Sveriges Television. Retrieved 4 April 2017.
  5. "SVT-profilen död – blev 60 år gammal". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). Retrieved 4 April 2017.
  6. "Johan Croneman om John Chrispinsson: "Han var en naturbegåvning"". Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). 4 April 2017. Retrieved 4 April 2017.
  7. "Historiska klubben - Vetenskapsradion" (in Swedish). Sveriges Radio. Retrieved 4 April 2017.

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