SVT ended Nyheter på lätt svenska: the alternatives
Last reviewed 20 August 2026.
Short answer: Nyheter på lätt svenska, SVT's five-minute news broadcast in easy Swedish, stopped in July 2026. SVT announced major savings in March 2026 and several programmes went with them. If you searched for it and found nothing, nothing is wrong with your search. The programme is gone.
For the listening habit, Klartext from Sveriges Radio is the closest replacement. For reading, 8 Sidor. To keep the five minutes and answer back in Swedish, NÖVA, a Swedish tutor that talks with you about today's news. Klartext and 8 Sidor are free, and NÖVA is free to try.
The broadcast had run since 2016, and for many people learning Swedish it was the daily habit: five calm minutes, subtitles on, done. If your SFI teacher played it in class, this is also why it stopped appearing there. The habit is worth keeping, and here is where it can live now.
So you can weigh what we say: this guide is written by NÖVA, which is one of the options below, beside free public alternatives we genuinely recommend.
The alternatives that exist today
Nothing replaces a television broadcast one to one. What remains is radio, text and conversation, and the closest thing to the old habit is audio with a text beside it.
Klartext from Sveriges Radio is the nearest surviving relative: the day's news read slowly and clearly every weekday, with short text versions of the stories. If you keep only one of these habits, keep this one.
8 Sidor is the easy-to-read newspaper, free to read online, with short news articles in lättläst svenska every weekday. The most text for the least struggle.
Radio Sweden på lätt svenska, also from Sveriges Radio, makes news in easy Swedish aimed at people who are new in Sweden.
Yle Nyheter på lätt svenska, in Yle Arenan, is Finland's easy-Swedish news. The Swedish is real and clearly spoken; the news is Finland's, not Sweden's. Good listening practice, not a Swedish news habit.
And NÖVA, which is us: today's real Swedish news retold in simple Swedish, around B1, where you then say what you think. You answer in Swedish, and NÖVA corrects the clearest mistakes, at most two, and asks a question back. You can try it right now without an account, and reading is always free. A free account gives you a few conversations every day. The paid plan, Plus, adds a tutor who remembers you from one day to the next, with a free trial to start.
A longer list of easy-news sources is kept by informationsverige.se, the county administration boards' site for people new in Sweden.
Keeping the five-minute shape
What made the broadcast work was not television. It was the shape: short, daily, the same time every day, and over before it became work. Any of the sources above can hold that shape. Klartext on the commute is five minutes. One 8 Sidor article with coffee is five minutes. One NÖVA conversation about today's lead story is five minutes, and it is the only one of these that answers you back.
We put the reading and listening options side by side in our guide to easy Swedish news, and if you want the habit to actually move your Swedish, there is a method guide for turning the news into study material without killing the pleasure.
This page is also available på svenska.
Keep the five minutes
NÖVA shows you one of today's stories in simple Swedish and asks what you think. Answer in a sentence, and she answers you. No account needed to try.