Bjørn Hansen (journalist)
- Bjørn Hansen (journalist)
Bjørn Hansen (born 12 October 1938 in Tromsø) is a Norwegian journalist.
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. He has also appeared several times on CNN, as well as on other international news channels. He was a news correspondent for NRK in Washington, DC in 1991. From 2002 to 2007, he was the host for "Urix", a popular foreign news program in Norway, broadcast every Thursday night on NRK.
He was employed in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation in 1978. Before this he was a newspaper journalist in "Nordlys" (1957-1960 and 1961-1963), "Halden Arbeiderblad" (1960-1961) and "Arbeiderbladet". For the latter he was a foreign correspondent in London.
Bjørn Hansen currently lives in his seaside house in Nesodden, a suburb of Oslo, with his wife.
External links
* [http://www2.nrk.no/program/urix/ Urix official site]
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