Tøger Seidenfaden

{{Short description|Danish journalist and newspaper editor}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Tøger Seidenfaden

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1957|04|28|df=y}}

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2011|01|27|1957|04|28|df=y}}

| nationality = Danish

| occupation = Journalist, political scientist

}}

Tøger Seidenfaden (28 April 1957 – 27 January 2011{{cite news|url=http://politiken.dk/kultur/tvogradio/ECE1179007/toeger-seidenfaden-er-doed|title=Tøger Seidenfaden er død|work=Politiken|date=2011-01-27}}) was a Danish journalist and political scientist, and, from 1993 until his death, editor-in-chief of the broadsheet newspaper Politiken. His father, Erik Seidenfaden, was also a journalist and was editor-in-chief of the newspaper Dagbladet Information.

He was editor-in-chief of Weekendavisen between 1987 and 1992 and managing director of TV 2 from 1992 to 1993. He was a long-time Bilderberg-attendee, {{Cite web |url=http://www.information.dk/125091 |title=De mægtiges diskussionsklub |last=Bang Petersen |first=Rasmus |date=25 July 2007 |publisher=Information |trans-title=The debate club of the powerful}} and member of the Trilateral Commission's Executive Committee.[http://www.trilateral.org/memb.htm Trilateral Commission website]

Death

Seidenfaden died on 27 January 2011 after a long battle with skin cancer.[https://www.berlingske.dk/virksomheder/toeger-seidenfaden-er-doed "Tøger Seidenfaden"].

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