Carsten Bleness is a Norwegian newspaper editor.

A Chief Mate

Chief Mate

A Chief Mate or Chief Officer, usually also synonymous with the First Mate or First Officer , is a licensed member and head of the deck department of a merchant ship...

 by education, he also worked as a manual laborer before having a career in media. He worked in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation from 1988 to 1992, and 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 1992 to 2005. In 2005 he was hired as the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Dagsavisen

Dagsavisen

Dagsavisen is a daily newspaper published in Oslo, Norway. The former party organ of the Norwegian Labour Party, the ties loosened over time from 1975 to 1999, and it is now fully independent...

. He resigned in 2009 amid poor economic results, and was succeeded by Arne Strand

Arne Strand

Arne Strand is a Norwegian journalist and politician for the Labour Party. He is the current political editor in the newspaper Dagsavisen.Strand graduated from the University of Oslo with the cand.mag. degree in 1968...

as acting editor.