Stein Kåre Kristiansen (born 22 March 1951) is a Norwegian journalist.
He is currently political editor of the television channel TV 2.
As such, he appears on-screen as a news analyst on political affairs.
In 2006, Kristiansen was one of only three journalists in Norway to be taxed on an income of more than a million Norwegian kroner.
The incomes of the top three were Davy Wathne with 1,672,845, Oddvar Stenstrøm with 1,187,114, and Stein Kåre Kristiansen with 1,055,417.