Career
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 has published the report and analysis book Le Modèle suédois – ce qui attend la France on his French publishers 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 was 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 that 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.
