Bjarne Berg (6 June 1950 – 9 May 2010) was a Norwegian

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, journalist and businessperson. He is best known as news editor of TV 2 and from the companies

Vizrt Vizrt (), short for ''Visualization in Real-Time'' or ''Visual Artist'', is a Norwegian company that creates content production, management, and distribution tools for the digital media industry. Its products include applications that create r ...

and

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Career

He grew up in

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as a son of Christian journalist Arthur Bjarne Berg, and was a journalist in ''

Dagbladet ''Dagbladet'' (lit.: ''The Daily Magazine'') is one of Norway's largest newspapers and is published in the tabloid format. It has 1,400,000 daily readers on mobile, web and paper. Traditionally ''Dagbladet'' is considered the main liberal newsp ...

'' and ''

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

'' before he was hired in TV 2. He was promoted to news editor in the television channel. He was central in building up the channel's news backbone ''

TV 2 Nyhetene TV 2 Nyhetene is Norway's TV 2 regular news that has been shown every day since the start of 1992, at 18:30 and at 21:00. There used to be a shorter newscast that ran around midnight, but ended around the time TV 2 Nyheter started. The 21:00 news ...

'', and also helped build up the Storm Weather Center to support the channel's

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s. He worked in TV 2 from 1992 to 2000. He later became director of the graphics company

in 2001. In 2003 he started a cooperation with Vizrt partner Svein Ove Strømmen and Eivind Kåre Lunde, which culminated in the founding of the investment company

. The company invested in

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players, which delivered players to

SK Brann Sportsklubben Brann (commonly known as Brann, and less often as SK Brann) is a Norwegian professional football club, founded 26 September 1908, from Bergen. Brann had been in the Eliteserien, Norway's Premier Division of Football, since 1987, bar ...

. SK Brann won the

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. The sporting success waned over the next years. In 2010, at the general assembly, he demanded the resignation of the board. He was also an active swimmer, and swimming coach and administrator. He set two Norwegian records around 1970; in the 100 metre

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in August 1969 with 1.02,3 minutes, and in the 200 metre butterfly in August 1970 with 2.16,6 minutes. He represented the club Bergens SC.

Death

Berg died in May 2010. He was buried from the

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. Hardball and Vizrt partner Svein Ove Strømmen died shortly after, in September 2010.

References

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