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University of Oslo.
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Bjorn Hansen
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In Norway, he is well known as an experienced news presenter and correspondent, having worked for the Norwegian state-owned radio and television public broadcasting company, Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. Hansen was born in Tromsø and started as a newspaper journalist in Nordlys (1957–1960 and 1961–1963), Halden Arbeiderblad (1960–1961) and Arbeiderbladet. Foreign the latter he was a foreign correspondent in London.
He was employed in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation in 1978.
He was a correspondent for Norsk Rikskringkasting in Washington, District of Columbia from 1991 to 1995. He presided over election debates, and has also appeared several times on Cable News Network as well as other international news channels.
From 2002 to 2007, he was the host for the Thursday night foreign news program Urix.
