New Editor-in-Chief and CEO for Børsen

With the new year, the Danish business daily Børsen will be getting a new editor-in-chief and CEO. Anders Krab-Johansen, currently the editorial director for TV2 news in Denmark, will be taking over the reins from Leif Beck Fallesen, who has been with the company for 25 years.

Krab-Johansen, 43, has been working long in journalism, including previous stints at Børsen as reporter, Brussels correspondent and political editor. He's also worked as political editor at Danish news agency Ritzau and TV 2, and as managing editor for the Danish daily Politiken.

"I bring to the job my experience from a range of media - newspapers, agencies and TV," says Krab-Johansen. "And I hope to offer new ideas and new ways of going about providing the news and information to business people."

The biggest challenge - and opportunity - for Krab-Johansen is the digital market. Børsen has to be the leading providing of news to business people, and it has to be done in a profitable way. "There are new opportunities for making money with digital services now, with new devices like smart phones and now the iPad," he says. "It's a matter of delivering the right news, analysis and opinion in the right format for the market."

The newspaper is and will still be the core business for Børsen. "We have a unique audience in Danish business people, who consume news and who constitute an interesting target group for advertisers," he says. "I truly love traditional newspapers and I think they have a strong future if we are innovative."

Krab-Johansen has plenty ahead of him besides further developing the digital possibilities for Børsen. "I really look forward to working with everyone at Børsen that I know so well, they're a great bunch," he says. "Plus all the new people I haven't met yet."