Bente Engesland is a Norwegian magazine

Magazine

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 editor

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She was the editor-in-chief of Kvinner og Klær

Kvinner og Klær

Kvinner og Klær , is a Norwegian weekly magazine. It is the oldest and largest magazine for women in the country. Its target group is mature women, and its circulation was 73,142 in 2004. The editor is Gjyri Helén Werp, who took over for Bente Engesland in 2008. It is owned by Allers Familie-Journal....

from 2005 to 2008. She started her career working part-time in the Norwegian News Agency

Norwegian News Agency

The Norwegian News Agency is a Norwegian press agency and wire service that serves many of the largest Norwegian media outlets. It also cooperates closely with the photo agency Scanpix, in which it has a 50% ownership share.NTB was founded in 1867...

 in 1983, and was a journalist

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 in Aftenposten

Aftenposten

Aftenposten is Norway's largest newspaper. It retook this position in 2010, taking it from the tabloid Verdens Gang which had been the largest newspaper for several decades. It is based in Oslo. The morning edition, which is distributed across all of Norway, had a circulation of 250,179 in 2007...

from 1985 to 1997. She graduated from the University of Oslo

University of Oslo

The University of Oslo , formerly The Royal Frederick University , is the oldest and largest university in Norway, situated in the Norwegian capital of Oslo. The university was founded in 1811 and was modelled after the recently established University of Berlin...

 as cand.polit.

Cand.polit.

Candidatus rerum politicarum , Candidata rerum politicarum , abbreviated cand.polit., is an academic degree within the fields of social sciences issued under the old education system in Denmark and Norway.-Denmark:...

 in 1989. She worked in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation from 1997 to 2004, and as a consultant in Burston-Marsteller from 2004 to 2005.