Øyulf Hjertenes (born 23 May 1979) is a Norwegian economist, journalist and newspaper editor.

Career

Hjertenes was born in

Florø is a town and the administrative centre of the municipality of Kinn which is in Vestland county, Norway. The town was founded by royal decree in 1860 as a ladested on the island of Florelandet, located between the Botnafjorden and Solheimsfjord ...

. He is educated cand.oecon. from the

Norwegian School of Economics The Norwegian School of Economics () or NHH is a business school situated in Bergen, Norway. It was founded in 1936 as Norway's first business school and is the leading teaching and research institution in Norway for the fields of management and ...

. He has worked as journalist for the newspapers ''

Dagbladet () is one of Norway's largest newspapers and is published in the Tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid format. It has 1,400,000 daily readers on mobile, web and paper. Traditionally it was considered the main liberal newspaper of Norway, with a ...

'', ''

Bergensavisen ''Bergensavisen'' (lit. "the Bergen newspaper"), usually shortened to ''BA'', is the second largest newspaper in Bergen, Norway. The paper is published in tabloid format. The newspaper's webpage ba.no is Bergen's largest local newspaper webpag ...

'' and '' Firdaposten''. He was chief editor of the newspaper ''

Bergens Tidende is Norway's fifth-largest newspaper, and the country's largest newspaper outside Oslo. is owned by the public company Schibsted ASA. Norwegian owners held a mere 42% of the shares in Schibsted at the end of 2015. History and profile Founded ...

'' from 2015 to 2019. In 2019 he was assigned another administrative position in the

Schibsted Schibsted ASA is an international media group. The company has its headquarters in Oslo, Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The ...

media group, and Frøy Gudbrandsen took over as chief editor of ''Bergens Tidende''.

References

1979 births Living people People from Flora, Norway Norwegian School of Economics alumni Norwegian newspaper editors Norwegian economists Bergens Tidende editors {{Norway-journalist-stub