John Arne Markussen (born 20 May 1953) is a Norwegian journalist and newspaper editor. He was born in Repvåg,

Nordkapp ), North Cape, Norway, other uses, North Cape (disambiguation) Nordkapp ( en, North Cape; sme, Davvinjárga or ; fkv, Kappa or ) is a municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the tow ...

. He was journalist for the newspaper ''

Altaposten ''Altaposten'' is a Norwegian daily newspaper, published in Alta, Norway. History and profile ''Altaposten'' was founded in 1969, and its first editor was Øystein Dalland. From 1988 Ulf Jørgensen edited the newspaper, and since 2001 the edit ...

'' from 1971 to 1976, and for ''

Dagbladet ''Dagbladet'' (lit.: ''The Daily Magazine'') is one of Norway's largest newspapers and is published in the tabloid format. It has 1,400,000 daily readers on mobile, web and paper. Traditionally ''Dagbladet'' is considered the main liberal newspa ...

'' from 1977. From 2011 he was appointed chief editor of ''Dagbladet''. Among his books are ''Norske redaktører - voktere av enigheten'' from 1979, and ''Frihet og frykt - nærbilder av USA'' from 1996.

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