Kristoffer Eriksen

Kristoffer Eriksen (born 7 August 1986 in Søborg)^[1] is a Danish journalist, editor and TV-host.

Kristoffer Eriksen
Born	(1986-08-07) August 7, 1986 (age 38) Søborg
Occupation(s)	Journalist, tv-host, news editor
Employer(s)	Ekstra Bladet, formerly Radio24syv and DR

Career

Eriksen finished a degree as journalist from Danish School of Media and Journalism in 2011.^[1] In 2013, he hosted the controversial satirical program Absurdistan, who was sent on DR3. In the program, he and co-host Jeppe Juhl made a number of fake happenings, including launching a fake night club only for beautiful people. News about it was picked up by a number of serious media outlets, not knowing it was a hoax.^[2] From 2013 to 2014, he was a reporter for Sunday Live on DR2.^[3] In 2014, he and Juhl hosted Hyklerriget, on DR3.^[4] In 2016 he made the documentary Super Rich in the Slum, sent on DR3.^[5]

Eriksen worked as morning host on Radio24syv for three years.^[6] In 2016, the morning program, hosted by Eriksen and Kaare Svejstrup, was named that year's best news program, and an interview by them as the interview of the year.^[7] In November 2017, it was announced that he, along with Camilla Stampe, would host the fact-checking program Detector on DR, starting in the beginning of 2018.^[3] Later in November, he quit Radio24syv with immediate effect, because the radio decided to apologize to Claus Oxfeldt, chairman of the police trade union. Oxfeldt had boycotted the radio for 8 months, because Eriksen on Twitter had said he was "full of lies".^[8] In September 2018 he returned to Radio24syv as news editor.^[6] When the radio station applied for renewal of their broadcasting license, Eriksen was to become channel chief instead of Mikael Bertelsen and Mads Brügger, but the station did not win the procurement and closed in October 2019.^[9]

In December 2019, he became editor-in-chief of the investigative section of Ekstra Bladet, starting in January 2020^[10] and stopping May 19 2021.^[11]

References

1. "Kristoffer Eriksen". Altinget (in Danish). 27 July 2019. Retrieved 25 October 2019.
2. Hjort, Anders (21 June 2013). "DR trækker stikket på kontroversielt fup-program". Politiken (in Danish). Retrieved 25 October 2019.
3. "Detektor relanceres og får to nye værter". Altinget (in Danish). 13 November 2017. Retrieved 25 October 2019.
4. Gylstorff, Charlotte (1 May 2014). "'Hyklerriget' – nyt satireprogram undersøger magthaverne". DR (press release) (in Danish). Retrieved 25 October 2019.
5. Benner, Torben (13 March 2017). "Sådan køber man sig adgang til DR". Politiken (in Danish). Retrieved 25 October 2019.
6. "Kristoffer Eriksen vender hjem til Radio24syv". Altinget (in Danish). 21 September 2018. Retrieved 25 October 2019.
7. Gregart, Malene Liv (19 September 2016). "Prisregn: Kirsten Birgit og alle de andre – her er det bedste i dansk radio lige nu". DR (in Danish). Retrieved 25 October 2019.
8. Albrecht, Jakob (30 November 2017). "Kristoffer Eriksen forlader Radio24syv i protest". Journalisten (in Danish). Retrieved 25 October 2019.
9. Bertelsen, Mikael; Brügger, Mads (30 October 2019). "Brügger og Bertelsen: Når vi mødte politikere, der havde fået en lille plimmelim på, lod de os vide, at Radio24syv var »totalt uden for kontrol«". Berlingske Tidende (in Danish). Retrieved 2 December 2019.
10. "Tidligere Radio24syv-profil rykker ind i Ekstra Bladets chefredaktion". Berlingske Tidende (in Danish). Ritzau. 2 December 2019. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
11. Smith, Af: Emmely. "Kristoffer Eriksen stopper som chefredaktør på Ekstra Bladet". ekstrabladet.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 19 May 2021.