Mari Skurdal (born 6 September 1977) is a Norwegian journalist and newspaper editor.

Background

She was born in

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and is educated from the

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. 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

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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

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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 {{Norway-writer-stub