Faxén also reported on the liberation of Algeria, including the Algiers putsch in which French generals tried to take power over what was then a large French province in North Africa. He was Sveriges Radio's Paris correspondent from 1963 to 1966 and foreign affairs commentator from 1966. He went from radio to television in 1969. Sweden's second TV channel, TV2, was to be started and so was a new news program, "Rapport", which was broadcast for the first time on 5 December 1969. Even during his time at "Rapport", Faxén traveled extensively. Among other things, he covered the civil war in Jordan, the Black September in 1970. Faxén was then correspondent in Washington, D.C. from 1971 to 1973 where, in addition to covering the 1972 presidential election, he also had to report on the first incidents in the Watergate scandal, which later led to the resignation of President Nixon. Back in Sweden, he was then managing editor of TV2's factual television editorial office from 1973 to 1974. Faxén was then radio program manager from 1974.