Anne Aasheim (22 April 1962 – 30 March 2016) was a Norwegian editor. She was born in

Porsgrunn is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Telemark county, Norway. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district of Grenland. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Porsgrunn (town), city ...

and started her journalist career in the neighboring city's largest newspaper '' Varden'' in the late 1970s. She worked in '' Dagen'' and '' Bergens Arbeiderblad'' before being hired in NRK Hordaland in 1988. She served as acting director of NRK P3 in Trondheim and NRK P2 in Oslo before being appointed as director of the local news post '' Østlandssendingen'' in 1997. In 1999 she served as acting director of culture in the news corporation, before serving as director of national and district news from 2001 to 2005. After a period as editor-in-chief of ''

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'' from 2006 to 2010, she resigned and became the new managing director of the

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in 2011. She was married to researcher Mette Tollefsrud, resided in Ila, Oslo. Aasheim died of

lung cancer Lung cancer, also known as lung carcinoma, is a malignant tumor that begins in the lung. Lung cancer is caused by genetic damage to the DNA of cells in the airways, often caused by cigarette smoking or inhaling damaging chemicals. Damaged ...

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in 2016.

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