Espen Egil Hansen (born 16 October 1965) is a Norwegian newspaper editor and publisher.

Biography

Hansen was born in

Grimstad Grimstad () is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Agder counties of Norway, county, Norway. It belongs to the geographical region of Southern Norway, Sørlandet. The administrative center of the municipality is the Grimstad (to ...

on 16 October 1965. He was assigned with the newspaper ''

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'' from 1991 to 2013. In 2013 he was appointed

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of the newspaper ''

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'', and from 2015 also

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of the newspaper. He has been board member of the

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, board member of the International News Media Association, and chairman of the board of the online business newspaper '' E24''. He was succeeded by

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as chief editor of ''Aftenposten'' from January 2020. From 2020 to 2021 he was in charge of

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strategy for the Schibsted Media Group. From 2021 he was assigned as councillor for the Danish media company JP/Politiken Media Group.

References

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