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  • New group CEO appointed for NHST Media Group

    The Board of Directors of NHST Media Group has appointed Trond Sundnes (46) as the new Group CEO. He´s main responsibilities will be the Norwegian and international media publications and group functions. He takes the role after being CEO of NHST Global Publications and has previously held various positions in the group since 2007.
    “Trond has been decisive for the digital transformation of bot

  • NHST GROUP’S DEVELOPMENT IN THE FOURTH QUARTER OF 2020

    During the fourth quarter, NHST Media Group achieved an increase in the sale of digital products and services, and the group’s publications continue to experience a strong demand for news. New products and services launched in the second half of 2020, such as the investment fund game Fantasyfond, newsletters targeted towards the energy industry, product enhancements in Mynewsdesk and webinars host

  • Hege Yli Melhus Ask resigns as Group CEO of NHST Media Group

    HegeYliMelhus Ask has resigned her position with NHST Media Group.
    - Hege has done a very good job as Group CEO and has led NHST Media Group through two challenging years. We would have preferred for her to stay on longer, but we of course respect her decision. A process to recruit her successor has begun, says Anette Olsen, Chair of the Board of Directors of NHST Media Group.
    Olsen points o

  • NHST Media Group - QUARTERLY REPORT FOR THIRD QUARTER 2020

    NHST GROUP’S DEVELOPMENT IN THE THIRD QUARTER OF 2020

    Several of the business units in NHST Media Group had a positive development of new digital products and services, but the Covid-19 pandemic and related uncertainty in the Norwegian and international economy continued to characterise the group’s results in the third quarter.
    User revenues decreased 7 per cent in the quarter compared t

  • NHST Media Group appoints new Group Chief People Officer

    Helga Bollmann Leknes (48) has been appointed Chief People Officer of NHST Media Group, effective 17 August.
    Leknes will join the Group Management of NHST Media Group and report to Group CEO Hege Yli Melhus Ask.
    - Helga has a solid experience from strategic and operational HR as well as business leadership of large international corporations. Her competence and role will be very important to

  • Mentor Medier acquires NHST Media Group’s shares in Morgenbladet

    Mentor Medier acquires NHST Media Group's shares in Morgenbladet. As a result, Mentor Medier will own 90.8 per cent of the shares in Morgenbladet. Mentor Medier already owns several newspapers such as Vårt Land and Dagsavisen in Norway, and the Swedish publication Dagen. It also owns several smaller newspapers and publishing firms, as well as Mediaconnect, a key provider of services to the media i

  • Extraordinary cost reductions at NHST Media Group

    NHST Media Group has decided to reduce costs by about NOK 70 million in 2020 to compensate for negative effects of the corona crisis and declining oil prices. Group publications are experiencing record-high readership numbers, but income from advertising and conferences are dropping considerably both in Norway and globally.
    - We are delivering important journalism and good products at a difficu

  • Group Management changes at NHST Media Group AS

    Group Management changes at NHST Media Group AS

    (Oslo, September 2, 2019) Louise Barnekow has been appointed CEO of Mynewsdesk AB, a position she has held on an interim basis since late last year. She will be a member of the Group Management team of NHST Media Group. Following 12 years with the group, Chief Strategy Officer Andreas Emblem has decided to leave NHST to seek new opportunities.

  • NHST Media Group AS appoints new Group CFO

    Baard Haugen (63) has been appointed Group CFO of NHST Media Group and will join the Group Management Team by early September. Haugen comes from a similar position at Elopak, a Norway-based, international supplier of paper-based packaging solutions for liquid food.
    Haugen has experience from management positions both in finance and operations in several private and listed companies with extens

  • Management changes at Mynewsdesk AB

    (11 December 2018) Louise Barnekow, Mynewsdesk’s Chief Product Officer, has been appointed interim CEO of the company. Mattias Malmström, who has served as CEO since 2015, has decided to leave Mynewsdesk to pursue new career opportunities. The changes are effective as of today.

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