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Tina Jøhnk Christensen

Tina Jøhnk Christensen is a 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. Christensen served five years on the board of directors and also held a position on the press conference committee. She continues to be a regular contributor to the Golden Globes website.

Christensen is a freelance correspondent for Scandinavian media including Vogue Scandinavia, Scandinavian Traveler, Icelandair’s inflight magazine Stop Over, the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, the Danish film magazine Ekko, the daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten, The Copenhagen Post and the Swedish 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 U.S. and Danish originality across a wide range of industries.

In 2018, the Ole Henriksen book was released, which she 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, a book on the power of gratitude, also by Politikens Forlag.

Prior to her journalism career, she taught film history at the Open University in Odense and British literary history, covering nearly seven centuryies, at the University of Odense. 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.