Bjørgulv Braanen (born 14 November 1956) was editor-in-chief of the Norwegian daily newspaper ''

Klassekampen (Lit. translation: ''"The Class Struggle"'') is a Norwegian daily newspaper in print and online. Its tagline is "The daily newspaper of the Left". The paper's net circulation was 33,265 in 2022, and it has around 111,000 daily readers on paper ...

'' until 2018, when he was succeeded by

Mari Skurdal Mari Skurdal (born 6 September 1977) is a Norwegian journalist and newspaper editor. Since 2018 she has been chief editor of the daily print and online newspaper . Background Skurdal was born in Oslo on 6 September 1977, and is educated from th ...

Career

Braanen is educated as a

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in addition to have studied

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at university. He is former chairman of Red Youth and journalist in ''Klassekampen'' (1984–1990) and ''

Dagens Næringsliv ''(DN)'' ( Norwegian for "''Today's Business Affairs''"), is a Norwegian daily newspaper focusing on economic and business current affairs. it is the third-largest newspaper in Norway by circulation. Editor-in-chief is Janne Johannessen, appoint ...

'' (1990–2000). In 2000 he returned to ''Klassekampen'', where he was editor-in-chief from 2002 to 2018, and thereafter political editor.

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1956 births Living people Norwegian newspaper editors Klassekampen people Dagens Næringsliv people Klassekampen editors {{Editor-stub