Ulrik Haagerup has been Head of News for the National Danish Broadcasting Corporation since 2007. He was previously Editor-in-Chief of NORDJYSKE Media as it became a world leader in cross-media publishing. Before that, he was Editor-in-Chief at Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten, the country’s largest daily newspaper,

Haagerup is a member of World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on the Future of Journalism, and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists in Washington D.C. In 1990, he won the Cavling Prize, the Danish equivalent of the American Pulitzer Prize, for his investigation into a flamboyant developer and his transactions with a large Danish mortgage institution

He has conducted major investigations on the Danish Cancer Society and political parties. He serves on the European Journalism Center’s Board of Advisors. Haagerup was a Knight journalism fellow at Stanford University in 1992