Career
He is currently political editor if the television channel television 2. He lives in Sørumsand. In 2006, Kristiansen was one of only three journalists in Norway to be taxed on an income of more than a million Norwegian kroner.
The incomes of the top three were Davy Wathne with 1,672,845, Oddvar Stenstrøm with 1,187,114, and Stein Kåre Kristiansen with 1,055,417.