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Espen Egil Hansen

Espen Egil Hansen

Executive Editor, Verdens Gang, Norway

Espen Egil Hansen is an Executive Editor in VG Norway. VGs products reach 53% of the Norwegian population every day, and it is among the media houses in the world with the strongest digital position in its market.  VGs digital operations are this year celebrating ten years of profitability. 

Mr. Hansen has been The Editor-in-Chief for VGs multimedia company, and after a merge with the mother newspaper company he is responsible for developing and composing all the media house products on internet, paper, mobile, TV and tablets.

Mr. Hansen is member of the Management group of Schibsted Norway, is a board member of The Association of Norwegian Editors, is the president of the board of the business news site E24 and is this year joining the INMA Board of Directors.

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