Steinar Hansson

Steinar Hansson (31 May 1947 – 3 August 2004) was a Norwegian journalist and publisher. He was born in Asker. He worked as an 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.

Books Operasjon Libanon. En reportasjebok om Israels okkupasjon av Sør-Libanon, 1978 Sosialisme på norsk. (Editor together with Rune Slagstad), 1981 Makt og mannefall. Historien om Gro Harlem Brundtland, (with Ingolf Håkon Teigene), 1992 Fordømte forfattere og andre essays, 1994 Johan Jørgen Holst, 1994