bisittare

02:06 Aug 18, 2018 

Love it, Deane! The literal meaning is "sitting next to".
SAOL explains it as "assistent", i.e. assistant, which might be more suitable for a serious text. Norstedts gives "expert commentator" (TV and sports), which should give the searcher another clue - so, please, dear SafeTex, take a good look at your dictionaries before you fire off a question.

15:48 Aug 17, 2018 

or boy Robin (Batman) :)

15:27 Aug 17, 2018 

is what I think about...

14:15 Aug 17, 2018 

Hello
Well I think you may have cracked it. You are one hell of a etymologist. So the answer is "announcer" but that still does not work so maybe "spokesman"???

14:02 Aug 17, 2018 

Calling the Veep an assessor doesn't really make sense. Your Swe journalist writer might be using the word informally as with 'Johnny Carsons bisittare Ed McMahon' in this article (last line http://degrellarkivet.blogspot.com/2011/06/)

Of course, we have to know who Johnny Carson was first...

10:15 Aug 17, 2018 

Thanks. I'd spotted these entries but I just can't find an article on the Internet about Bo Berggren that narrows it down a bit for me.