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

Klassekampen ''Klassekampen'' ( en, The Class Struggle) is a Norwegian daily newspaper. It describes itself as "the newspaper of the Left." The paper's net circulation is 34,000 (2021), and it has around 111,000 daily readers on paper (160,000 on Saturdays). ...

'' until 2018, when he was succeeded by

Mari Skurdal Mari Skurdal (born 6 September 1977) is a Norwegian journalist and newspaper editor. Background She was born in Oslo and is educated from the University of Oslo. She is a co-author of several textbooks for secondary school, and worked as teacher ...

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 ''Dagens Næringsliv'' (Norwegian for "Today's Business"), commonly known as ''DN'', is a Norwegian newspaper specializing in business news. , it is the third-largest newspaper in Norway. Editor-in-chief is Janne Johannessen, who was appointed i ...

'' (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