Sun Heidi Sæbø (born 2 July 1980) is a Norwegian journalist, newspaper editor, and non-fiction writer. Since 2020 she is editor-in-chief of ''

Morgenbladet is Norway's oldest daily newspaper, covering politics, culture and science, now a weekly news magazine primarily directed at well-educated readers. The magazine is notable for its opinion section featuring contributions exclusively from Norweg ...

''.

Early and personal life

Born in South Korea on 2 July 1980, Sæbø studied

comparative politics Comparative politics is a field in political science characterized either by the use of the '' comparative method'' or other empirical methods to explore politics both within and between countries. Substantively, this can include questions relat ...

at the

University of Bergen The University of Bergen () is a public university, public research university in Bergen, Norway. As of 2021, the university had over 4,000 employees and 19,000 students. It was established by an act of parliament in 1946 consolidating several sci ...

. She has also studied at the University of Shanghai.

Career

From 2005 to 2019 Sæbø was assigned to the newspaper ''

Dagbladet () is one of Norway's largest newspapers and is published in the Tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid format. It has 1,400,000 daily readers on mobile, web and paper. Traditionally it was considered the main liberal newspaper of Norway, with a ...

'', assuming various editorial positions. She was appointed societal editor at the newspaper ''

'' in 2019. In October 2019, the day after the resignment of Anna Børve Jenssen due to internal conflicts, Sæbø was temporarily assigned as chief editor of ''Morgenbladet'', and from January 2020 she was appointed editor-in-chief and managing director of the newspaper. Her books include ''Kims lek'' from 2015, a biography of

Kim Jong Un Kim Jong Un (born 8 January 1983 or 1984) is a North Korean politician and dictator who has served as supreme leader of North Korea since 2011 and general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) since 2012. He is the third son of Kim ...

from 2018, and ''Kina – den nye supermakten'' from 2019.

References

1980 births Living people South Korean emigrants to Norway University of Bergen alumni Dagbladet people Norwegian newspaper editors Norwegian women editors Morgenbladet people Norwegian non-fiction writers Norwegian women non-fiction writers {{Norway-writer-stub