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Tina Jøhnk Christensen

Tina Jøhnk Christensen is an award-winning journalist, author, translator, podcast host and producer from Odense, Denmark. She holds an MA in English and Film Science from the University of Odense and Copenhagen and specializes in film and entertainment news, features, and interviews.

Christensen moved to Los Angeles in 2001 and has been associated with the Golden Globes since 2013. Within the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the nonprofit previously behind the Golden Globes, Christensen served five years on the Board of Directors and also held a position at the Press Conference Committee. She continues to be a regular contributor to the Golden Globes website and podcast series.

Christensen is a respected freelance correspondent for Scandinavian media including Vogue Scandinavia, Scandinavian Traveler, Icelandair’s inflight magazine Stop Over, the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, the film magazine Ekko and the men’s magazine King.

Christensen serves as host and executive producer on Danish Originals, a podcast series in English that features Danish creatives impactful in the US and Danish originality across a wide range of industries.

In 2018, she released the Ole Henriksen book translated as “It Must Feel Good: Take Your Heart on the Road to Success,” published by Politikens Forlag. In 2024, the two authors published their second non-fiction title, also by Politikens Forlag.

Prior to her journalism career, she taught Film History at the Open University in Odense and British Literary History from 1350 to the present at the University of Odense, Denmark. She previously worked on translations of fiction and non-fiction from English and German into Danish. Christensen is fluent in her mother tongue as well as in English and German, and she speaks Italian and some French.