Fredrik Th. Bolin
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Fredrik Thorstein Bolin (8 May 1931 – 13 October 2005) was a Norwegian newspaper editor. He was born in
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, and finished his secondary education in 1949. He was a journalist in ''
Moss Avis is a local newspaper in Moss, Norway. Having a rivalry with ''Moss Dagblad'', it is published six days a week. The chief editor is Pål Enghaug. It was established in 1876, and became affiliated with the Liberal Party. It later shifted to the r ...
'' from 1949 to 1950 and ''Mannskapsavisa'' from 1950 to 1951. After a period as a science student, he worked in ''Moss Avis'' again from 1955 to 1960. He was also a member of Moss city council from 1955 to 1959. He had a break in 1957, when he was a freelance journalist in South America. He was hired in ''
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'' in 1965, and was the newspaper's correspondent in
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from 1970 to 1976 and subeditor from 1976 to 1977. From 1977 to 1992 he was the editor-in-chief of ''Moss Avis'', and from 1986 to 1994 he chaired the
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. He became an honorary member of the latter organization together with Johan E. Holand in 1994. He was a board member of the Norwegian
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commission from 1983 to 1987, chaired
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in Norway from 1970 to 1971, and was also active in the
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and Norsk Polarklubb and received the Paul Harris Medal from Rotary. He also received the
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and the Médaille de courage et de dévouement. He died in 2005.


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1931 births 2005 deaths People from Moss, Norway Østfold politicians Conservative Party (Norway) politicians Norwegian newspaper reporters and correspondents Norwegian expatriates in Belgium Norwegian newspaper editors {{Norway-writer-stub