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Place of Birth: Huddinge Municipality, Sweden
About Magnus Falkehed
- Magnus Falkehed, (born 30 September 1967) is a Swedish journalist.
- He has been a correspondent for Dagens Nyheter in Paris, France, since 2011.
- He has also reported from Northern Africa and the Middle East.
- He has written for other newspapers, like Göteborgs-Posten, Sydsvenskan, Dagens Industri, and Fokus.
- He published the report and analysis book, Le Modèle suédois – ce qui attend la France with his French publisher, Payot, in 2005.
- As well as the recipe book Fransk afton – maten, musiken, bistroerna, Paris in 2010 by publishers Norsteadt förlag.Magnus Falkehed and the photographer Niclas Hammarström were captured in the city of Yabroud in Syria on 23 November 2013, after a week of doing news work there, by Syrian rebels.
- On 8 January 2014, the foreign departments announced that Falkehed and Hammarström had been released.
- Despite their captivity, they got one report out from the conflict zone; it was published in the next coming week on both Dagens Nyheter and Aftonbladet.
- In March 2015, the book Idag ska vi inte dö – Fångar i krigets Syrien was published about his time as a captive.
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