Poul Madsen is a Danish journalist, currently Executive Editor-in-Chief of Ekstra Bladet, Denmark´s leading online media. Immediately after graduating from the Danish School of Journalism in Aarhus, he got a job as a reporter at the Danish public television, TV2. In 1996 he became chief editor of the main editorial office in Odense and in 1999 head of TV2 News based in Copenhagen. In 2001, Madsen joined the tabloid Ekstra Bladet.