Marit Christensen (11 November 1948 – 30 September 2022) was a Norwegian journalist. Christensen was a cand.mag. by education. She worked for the

Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation NRK, an abbreviation of the Norwegian ''Norsk Rikskringkasting AS'', generally expressed in English as the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, is the Norwegian government-owned radio and television public broadcasting company, and the largest ...

between 1977 and 2002. Here, she was a journalist, correspondent in Moscow from 1984 to 1988, and presenter for the entertainment shows ''For galleriet'' (1992–1993) and ''Apropos'' (1998–1999). Her time in Moscow earned her the nickname "Moskva-Marit" ("Moscow Marit"). On 17 August 2013, Christensen disclosed that for the last year of Wenche Behring Breivik's life, the mother of Norwegian mass murderer

Anders Behring Breivik Fjotolf Hansen (born 13 February 1979), better known by his birth name Anders Behring Breivik () and by his pseudonym Andrew Berwick, is a Norwegian far-right domestic terrorist, known for committing the 2011 Norway attacks on 22 July 2011. On ...

, Christensen had been her confidant.Marit Christensen har skrevet bok om Wenche Behring Breivik
VG, 17 August 2013, 13:11 The book was published in the autumn 2013, under the title "The Mother".

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1948 births 2022 deaths Norwegian television presenters Norwegian women television presenters Norwegian journalists Norwegian women journalists NRK people Norwegian television reporters and correspondents Norwegian expatriates in the Soviet Union Norwegian non-fiction writers Norwegian women non-fiction writers Journalists from Oslo {{Norway-journalist-stub