Arne Bonde, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Arne Bonde

Norwegian newspaper editor

Date of Birth: 08-Oct-1924

Date of Death: 07-Jun-2003

Profession: contributing editor, journalist

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Arne Bonde

  • Arne Andreas Bonde (8 October 1924 – 7 June 2003) was a Norwegian newspaper editor and radio executive. He was born in Ă…lesund as a son of engineer Jens Gustav Bonde (1894–1956) and Ester Sandborg Røe (1889–1980).
  • He started his journalistic career in the Norwegian News Agency at the age of eighteen, without much education.
  • He stayed there for ten years.
  • In 1952 he was hired in Verdens Gang.
  • The newspaper had been started in 1945, and was popularized during the post-war period.
  • From early on, Bonde was an internal proponent of more person-oriented journalism.
  • He was also responsible for the motor section since 1953.
  • In 1962 he was promoted to news editor.Verdens Gang, or the shortened form VG, adopted the tabloid format in 1963, and has been the largest in Norway since 1981.
  • In 1969 he was promoted to co-editor alongside Vegard Sletten and Oskar Hasselknippe.
  • Bonde stepped down already in 1974, out of his own concerns that he was not young enough for VG.Bonde was the director and co-owner of the advertising agency Thau ReklamebyrĂĄ from 1975 to 1977 and director in the publishing house Ernst G.
  • Mortensens Forlag from 1977 to 1982.
  • From 1982 to 1983 he edited the RiksmĂĄl publication Frisprog.
  • He also worked for Time–Life as a stringer correspondent from 1947 to 1973.
  • He was a board member of Associated Press and Norges Handels og Sjøfartstidende, and chaired humanitarian organizations Save the Children (Norwegian branch) and the Norwegian Refugee Council.
  • In the 1975 book Stat og presse.
  • Med pennen i jernlunge he sharply attacked the Norwegian press support (a state subsidy to newspapers).In 1983 he was appointed director of the new radio channel NRK P2.
  • The channel was opened on 1 September 1984.
  • He retired in 1991, but continued some years as a consultant.
  • He also edited the monthly Kulturelt Perspektiv, and continued publishing books.He was married to Liss Pande since 1951, and died in June 2003 in Oslo.

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