[1] In 2007, he left DR after being appointed Minister-Counsellor, cultural attaché at the Embassy of Denmark in Washington, D.C.[2] He is currently an associate partner at the public affairs bureau, LEAD Agency in Copenhagen.

[3] While a young reporter for Ekstra Bladet in 1990–1993, Jansen covered the revolutions of 1989, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, [4] the Bosnian Wars, and the Siege of Sarajevo.

Based in Moscow for Ekstra Bladet, Jansen travelled extensively in Eastern Europe reporting on the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt against the last leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev.

[citation needed] Jansen began his career as a foreign news journalist at the Danish tabloid 'Ekstra Bladet', travelling extensively in Eastern Europe covering the historical political changes beginning with the Revolutions of 1989 and the breakdown of the Berlin Wall.

[8] In 1992, Nelson Mandela was touring the Scandinavian countries thanking them for their support during his 27 years imprisonment at Robben Island, South Africa.