Jahn Otto Johansen is a Norwegian journalist, newspaper editor, foreign correspondent and non-ficiton writer.

He worked for the newspaper Morgenposten

Morgenposten

Morgenposten is a former Norwegian newspaper, issued in Oslo from 1861 to 1971. It was the largest newspaper in Norway from the 1870s until the early 1900s, when its name was Christiania Nyheds- og Avertissements-Blad, also nicknamed Sværta....

from 1956 to 1966, for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) from 1966 to 1977, and was chief editor of Dagbladet

Dagbladet

Dagbladet is Norway's second largest tabloid newspaper, and the third largest newspaper overall with a circulation of 105,255 copies in 2009, 18,128 papers less than in 2008. The editor in chief is Lars Helle....

from 1977 to 1984. He has been a foreign correspondent for NRK in Moscow, Washington and Berlin. He has written around sixty books, including several bestsellers.