Hanna Lovisa Stjärne (born 17 March 1969) is a Swedish journalist and media executive. In September 2014 she was announced as the new

CEO A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief administrator officer (CAO) or just chief executive (CE), is one of a number of corporate executives charged with the management of an organization especially ...

for

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(SVT), succeeding the resigning CEO

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Biography

Hanna Stjärne was born and raised in Danderyd, Sweden. She attended

Adolf Fredrik's Music School Adolf Fredrik's Music School ( sv, Adolf Fredriks Musikklasser) is a general municipal junior high school ( sv, grundskola) in Stockholm, Sweden with a focus on choral music, and highly competitive admission based on audition in singing and mu ...

, with a specialty in singing. She studied journalism at

Stockholm University Stockholm University ( sv, Stockholms universitet) is a public research university in Stockholm, Sweden, founded as a college in 1878, with university status since 1960. With over 33,000 students at four different faculties: law, humanities, so ...

, and then worked as a political reporter at the radio news show ''

Dagens Eko ''Dagens Eko'' ("Echo of the day") – often shortened to ''Ekot'' ("The echo") – is the news service of Swedish national radio broadcaster Sveriges Radio. It provides news bulletins of variable length which are known as ''Ekonyheter'' ("Echo ...

'' at

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. She was also a foreign reporter based in

Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

for the same show. In 2001 Stjärne became a national reporter for ''Ekot'' at Sveriges Radio and in 2002 she was announced as the youngest-ever boss for Sveriges Radio P1. Stjärne has since also been the program administrator for Sveriges Radio with responsibility over the P1, P2, P3 and P4 frequencies. In 2010, Hanna Stjärne was announced as that year's best female media boss in Sweden. In August 2011, she became the

for the UNT-concern. It included the '' Uppsala Nya Tidning'' and five other newspapers, as well as radio and television work. In September 2014, it was announced that Hanna Stjärne would be the new CEO of

and that she would take the post within six months. As CEO, she has also been a member of the

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, an initiative of the Public Media Alliance, since its founding in September 2019. Hanna Stjärne has a daughter and is the aunt of actress

Tea Stjärne Tea is an aromatic beverage prepared by pouring hot or boiling water over cured or fresh leaves of ''Camellia sinensis'', an evergreen shrub native to East Asia which probably originated in the borderlands of southwestern China and norther ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Stjarne, Hanna 1969 births Living people People from Danderyd Municipality Swedish journalists Swedish women journalists Swedish chief executives Swedish television executives Stockholm University alumni Sveriges Television