Arnhild Johanna Skre (born 19 May 1952) is a

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newspaper editor, press historian and biographer.

Biography

Arnhild Johanna Skre was born in

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. She finished her secondary education in 1971 and the

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in 1972. In 1977 she graduated from the

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with the

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degree in social anthropology, ethnology and history. In 1978 she studied at the

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. In 2003 she took the cand.philol. degree in history. She worked in NRK Hordaland from 1979 to 1983, and was then a freelancer for NRK, ''

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'' and ''Jeg'' until 1986. She was then hired permanently in the weekly ''Dag og Tid'', and was its editor-in-chief from 1990 to 1994. From 1995 to 1999 she led the cultural feature desk of ''

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''. She chaired ''Norsk Pressehistorisk Forening'' from 2003 to 2010 and edited the journal ''Pressehistorisk tidsskrift'' from 2010 to 2014. She released a biography on

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in 2008 and

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in 2011. The latter won the

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. She also contributed to 2010's ''

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''. She resides in

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and is married to

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References

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