Harald Stanghelle

Harald Stanghelle (born 13 January 1956) is a Norwegian newspaper editor.

Career He was born in Bruvik Municipality (now part of Vaksdal Municipality). He started his career as a journalist when still a teenager, and left school after primary school. His first role was that of editor of Vaksdalsnytt at the age of 19. He was then a journalist in Arbeiderbladet from 1982 to 1991, and in Aftenposten from 1991. Here he spent one year as news editor, from 1994 to 1995, before being editor-in-chief for the national newspaper Dagbladet from 1995 to 2000. In 2000 he became political editor of Aftenposten.

He was also the former Vice-President of the World Editors Forum until February 2011 and is since April 2011 a board member of the Global Editors Network.