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Marie Heiberg Simonsen (born 1 June 1962) is a Norwegian journalist who since 2003 has been political editor in Dagbladet. She has previously worked for Dagens Næringsliv and VG.
Early life, education and career
Simonsen was born in Bodø and grew up at the west side of Oslo. Her father is the lawyer and Conservative politician Gustav Heiberg Simonsen.
She studied law, literature and political science at the University of Oslo 1983–1985. She started working as a journalist in Dagens Næringsliv in 1985 after having been recruited by Kåre Valebrokk. She headed the feature department for a while and was the paper's correspondent in London 1994–1997. She worked for VG 1997–2003 where she became head of the newspapers's commentary section. She has also held causeries in NRK radio.
She participated in founding the Norwegian Foundation for Investigative Journalism (SKUP) in 1990.
Views
Simonsen has described her general political positions as in accordance with the liberal tradition of Dagbladet. She does not have any fixed preference for a particular political party. She has named Gro Harlem Brundtland as a role model.
A feminist, she favours affirmative action for women and opposes cash-for-care benefits for the parents of toddlers which she believes hinders gender equality and integration of immigrant women and their children. Simonsen has expressed concern that women who are public figures are subject to more threats and harrassment both online and in real life than men and that this causes women to stay away from public debate.
Having experienced much internet harassment as well as real life threats, Simonsen has voiced concern that women in public life are disproportionally victims of harassments and that this may cause some women to stay out of public debate.
She opposes the Norwegian monarchy and the Norwegian state church.
In 2007, Simonsen commented on the paramedics incident in Oslo 2007 and wrote that the paramedics that refused to Ali Farah would not have behaved in the same way if Farah had been the ethnic Norwegian Hydro CEO Eivind Reiten . She further wrote: "This week, we were forced to see what we didn't want to see. It was the ugly and unmerciyful effect of racism".. One of the paramedics sued Dagbladet for their coverage of the incident and in 2014, the Supreme Court of Norway ordered Dagbladet to pay Schjenken 200,000 Norwegian kroner in compenstation for false allegations of racism, based on the commentary of Simonsen and two other writers for the paper. Dagbladet and other media leaders and journalists have called the ruling a threat to free journalism.
Books
- Marie Simonsen and Ingunn Yssen (2010): Bråk! Den store likestillingssvindelen. Aschehoug Forlag. ISBN 9788203291845
References
- ^ Olav Garvik, Marie Heiberg Simonsen, Store norske leksikon. Retrieved 6 March 2014
- ^ Bjarne Riiser Gundersen (17 April 2009), Overdommeren, Morgenbladet. Retrieved 6 March 2014
- Anne Viken (3 December 2003), Mellom dukser og raddiser, Universitas. Retrieved 6 March 2014
- I seng med fienden {{no icon]] Dagbladet. Retrieved 12 March 2014
- Robin Reistad Fiske (3 September 2011 Hareides kommentarer er bare vås Template:No icon Dagbladet. Retrieved 12 March 2014
- Hilde Arnesen (5 December 2013) Blir hetset hver dag, uansett hva hun skriver Template:No icon Vårt Land. Retrieved 12 March 2014
- Blir hetset hver dag, uansett hva hun skriver Vårt Land. Retrieved 15 March 2014.
- Own translation from Norwegian: «Denne uken ble vi tvunget til å se det vi ikke ville se. Det var rasismens stygge og ubarmhjertige konsekvens». Quoted from the 2014 article Svineriet i parken by Eirin Eikefjord in Bergens Tidende which cites Marie Simonsen's 2007 article "Skrekk og avsky"
- Svineriet i parken Template:No icon Bergens Tidende. Retrieved 15 March 2014
- Thorstein Hvattum (6 March 2014) Et varselskudd mot ytringsfriheten Template:No icon Aftenposten. Retrieved 15 March 2014