Harald Stanghelle (born 13 January 1956) is a Norwegian newspaper editor.
He was born in Vaksdal.[1] He started his career as a journalist when still a teenager, and left school after primary school.[2] His first role was that of editor of Vaksdalsnytt at the age of 19.[3] He was then a journalist in Arbeiderbladet from 1982 to 1991, and in Aftenposten from 1991. Here he spent one year as news editor, from 1994 to 1995, before being editor-in-chief for the national newspaper Dagbladet from 1995 to 2000. In 2000 he became political editor of Aftenposten.[1] In 2009 he was elected as chair of the Association of Norwegian Editors, succeeding Stein Gauslaa.[4]
He was also the former Vice-President of the World Editors Forum until February 2011 and is since April 2011 a board member of the Global Editors Network.[5]