Mari Skurdal (born 6 September 1977) is a Norwegian journalist and newspaper editor.
Background
She was born in
Oslo
Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of ...
and is educated from the
University of Oslo
The University of Oslo ( no, Universitetet i Oslo; la, Universitas Osloensis) is a public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the highest ranked and oldest university in Norway. It is consistently ranked among the top universit ...
. She is a co-author of several textbooks for secondary school, and worked as teacher in secondary school until she started working as journalist for the 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). ...
''.
Editor of ''Klassekampen''
After ten years in diffent leading positions in ''Klassekampen'' (the last position being feature editor), Skurdal in 2018 was appointed chief editor of the paper.
She was honoured as ''Editor of the year 2022'' by Oslo Redaktørforening (the Oslo Association of Editors).
In 2021 she was criticized for the paper's coverage of
transgender people
This list consists of many notable people who are transgender. The individual listings note the subject's nationality and main occupation.
In some non-Western, ancient or medieval societies, transgender people may be seen as a different gend ...
by journalism lecturer
Jon Martin Larsen who wrote that he fears her articles contribute to "incitement and hatred against transgender people."
In 2022 Larsen wrote that ''Klassekampen'' "tramples on" transgender people and that he cautions his students against the paper.
Skurdal has denied the accusation that the paper is
transphobic
Transphobia is a collection of ideas and phenomena that encompass a range of negative attitudes, feelings, or actions towards transgender people or transness in general. Transphobia can include fear, aversion, hatred, violence or anger tow ...
.
References
1977 births
Living people
Journalists from Oslo
University of Oslo alumni
Schoolteachers from Oslo
Norwegian newspaper editors
Women newspaper editors
Norwegian textbook writers
Norwegian women non-fiction writers
Women textbook writers
Klassekampen editors
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