Svein Gjerdåker (born 6 September 1963) is a Norwegian newspaper editor. He hails from

Voss Voss () is a Municipalities of Norway, municipality and a Districts of Norway, traditional district in Vestland Counties of Norway, county, Norway. The administrative center of the municipality is the village of Vossevangen. Other villages inclu ...

, and took his education 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 ...

. He later worked for the Chr. Michelsen Institute and

Universitetsforlaget Universitetsforlaget AS (English: "The University Press"), also known in English as Scandinavian University Press, is a Norway, Norwegian academic publishing company, which publishes non-fiction literature and scholarly journal, journals mainly ...

. In 2001 he was hired as editor-in-chief of ''

Dag og Tid ''Dag og Tid'' () is a national weekly newspaper in Norway that uses the Nynorsk standard of the Norwegian language. ''Dag og Tid'' was founded in 1962. Contrary to most other Norwegian newspapers, its circulation has recently increased signific ...

''. He is married to

Ingvild Bryn Ingvild Bryn (born 18 March 1961) is a Norwegian journalist. She is a news anchor for the evening news '' Dagsrevyen'', aired on the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. Biography She started as a news anchor in 1990, was then a correspondent in ...

. They have two

adopted Adoption is a process whereby a person assumes the parenting of another, usually a child, from that person's biological or legal parent or parents. Legal adoptions permanently transfer all rights and responsibilities, along with filiation, from ...

children.

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1963 births Living people Norwegian newspaper editors Nynorsk-language writers University of Bergen alumni People from Voss {{Norway-writer-stub