Nawal El Saadawi
Herbjørnsrud was the editor-in-chief of the Norwegian weekly left-wing news magazine "Ny Tid" from 2005 to 2015; formerly (1995-2005) a reporter and op-ed-writer for the conservative newspaper Aftenposten. As an editor of Ny Tid and responsible for its "Without Borders" ("Uten grenser") column, Herbjørnsrud was responsible for contacting the paper's columnists; like Anna Politkovskaya (Russia), Nawal El Saadawi (Egypt), Irshad Manji (Canada), Elena Milashina (Russia), Marta Beatrize Roque (Cuba), Parvin Ardalan (Iran), Tsering Woeser (Tibet) and Ethel Kabwato (Zimbabwe). Herbjørnsrud contributed to the production of the TV and Netflix thriller Occupied (2015), in which he ("editor Dag") was played by the actor Øystein Røger. He is the son of writer Hans Herbjørnsrud and historian Anna Tranberg.