Career
Svensson was employed at newspaper Sydöstran between 1988 and 1991 and then at newspaper Norra Skåne until 1993. He was then employed a short time for Värnpliktsnytt, the newspaper of the Swedish Armed Forces. From 1994 until 2006 he was worked for daily newspaper Expressen, interrupted only in 1995 when he wrote for Metro.
Svensson was in September 2006 convicted of police impersonation by the Hovrätten för Västra Sverige.
Shortly afterwards he was suspended from his job at Expressen. He was later expelled from his job after the relevation of his involvement in the computer infringement affair prior to the 2006 general election.
Svensson, who admitted guilt, was convicted of three computer infringements by the Stockholm tingsrätt in April 2007. Svensson founded freelance newscompany Nyhetsbolaget in November 2006 and is currently the company"s Chief Executive Officer. Nyhetsbolaget initially owned Politikerbloggen, also founded by Svensson.
Politikerbloggen was purchased in September 2007 by TV4, and shortly afterwards he began to work as a news reporter on TV4.
In February 2010 he returned to Expressen after editor-in-chief Thomas Mattsson recruited him back. In 2012 he was named Sweden"s 82nd most powerful person by Fokus.