Kjersti Sortland

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Kjersti Sortland
Stavanger University College
Occupation(s)journalist and newspaper editor

Kjersti Sortland (born 23 November 1968) is a Norwegian journalist, newspaper editor and media executive. She edited the newspaper Budstikka from 2013 to 2021, and has been editor-in-chief of the newspaper Stavanger Aftenblad since 2022.

Biography

Sortland was born in

Stavanger University College in 1989. She worked as journalist for the newspapers Bergensavisen, Stavanger Aftenblad and Bergens Tidende, and was then assigned with Verdens Gang from 1991 to 2013, where she assumed various positions.[1]

From 2013 to 2021 she was chief editor of Budstikka, and from 2020 also managing director of the nespaper.[1] She was honored Editor of the year 2017 by the Oslo Association of Editors.[2]

In 2022 she was appointed editor-in-chief of Stavanger Aftenblad.[1]

References

  1. ^
    Store norske leksikon
    (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
  2. ^ "Budstikkas Kjersti Sortland kåret til årets redaktør". journalisten.no. 8 March 2017. Retrieved 23 October 2023.