journalist contributing editor
He worked as editor in the publishing house Pax Forlag, and edited the newspaper Ny Tid from 1979. From 1983 he worked for the publishing house J.W. Cappelens Forlag. He was cultural editor for the newspaper Arbeiderbladet, and later for Dagbladet.
He was chief editor of Arbeiderbladet (renamed to Dagsavisen in 1997) from 1995 to 2001
He was awarded The Great Journalist Prize in 1999.