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

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(SVT), succeeding the resigning CEO

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Biography

Hanna Stjärne was born and raised in

Danderyd Danderyd Municipality (; ) is a municipality north of Stockholm in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. It is one of the smallest municipalities of Sweden, but the most affluent. Its seat is located in Djursholm and it is located within Sto ...

, Sweden. She attended

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, with a specialty in singing. She studied journalism at

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

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'' at

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. She was also a foreign reporter based in

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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

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. 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 CEO for the UNT-concern. It included the ''

Uppsala Nya Tidning ''Upsala Nya Tidning'' or ''UNT'' (meaning ''Upsala New Newspaper'' in English) is a regional daily newspaper published in Uppsala (archaically spelled Upsala), Sweden. History and profile ''Upsala Nya Tidning'' was established in 1890. The dist ...

'' 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 Global Task Force for Public Media, 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 Aurora Inez Jacobsdotter Stjärne (born 30 July 2000) is a Swedish actress. In 2011, she had the leading role in the SVT series ''Tjuvarnas jul'' along with Gustaf Hammarsten. In 2023, she has a leading role as Mia Thorstensson in the Netfl ...

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