Tom Magnar Hetland is a Norwegian journalist and editor.

He majored in history at the University of Bergen

University of Bergen

The University of Bergen is located in Bergen, Norway. Although founded as late as 1946, academic activity had taken place at Bergen Museum as far back as 1825. The university today serves more than 14,500 students...

, with minors in Norwegian and Russian. While studying he was editor in Norsk Tidend. He also worked as a journalist in various minor newspapers.

He was hired as a journalist Stavanger Aftenblad

Stavanger Aftenblad

Stavanger Aftenblad or simply Aftenbladet is a daily newspaper in Stavanger, Norway. It was founded in 1893 by the priest Lars Oftedal, and was for a long period a publication for the Liberal Party. It had a circulation of 68,186 copies in 2005...

in 1986 and became political editor

Political Editor

The political editor of a newspaper or broadcast media is the senior political reporter who covers politics and related matters for the newspaper or station...

in 1998. In 2002 he was appointed acting chief editor; the position was made permanent in 2003.