Magne Lerø (born 7 April 1954) is a Norwegian publisher and magazine editor.
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by education, from 1979 he also has a Master of Management degree from BI Norwegian Business School from 1996.
Within the religious field he has worked as a priest, curate, director of information in the Norwegian YMCA/YWCA, managing director of the Norwegian Bible Society and Verbum publishing house and chief executive officer of Lovisenberg Hospital.
He was the managing director of the media holding company Mentor Medier, and thereby editor-in-chief of publications such as Økonomisk Rapport, Ny Tid and Ukeavisen Ledelse.
From Mentor Medier Lerø bought several magazines and started publishing them out of the company Medier og Ledelse in 2013.
In 2014 Lerø bought the magazine Plot which was brough under the Medier og Ledelse umbrella, and became its chief editor.