Roald Storsletten (9 February 1915 – 6 February 1991) was a Norwegian newspaper editor. He was chief editor of the newspaper ''

Dagbladet () is one of Norway's largest newspapers and is published in the Tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid format. It has 1,400,000 daily readers on mobile, web and paper. Traditionally it was considered the main liberal newspaper of Norway, with a ...

'' for more than two decades, and chaired the

Association of Norwegian Editors The Association of Norwegian Editors (, NR) is a Norwegian interest group for editors and middle managers in the news media The news media or news industry are forms of mass media that focus on delivering news to the general public. These inc ...

Career

Born in Bodø on 9 February 1915, Storsletten was hired in the newspaper ''

'' in 1940, was promoted to news editor in 1954 and served as chief editor from 1958 to 1980, from 1973 jointly with

Arve Solstad Arve Solstad (15 November 1935 – 3 June 2016) was a Norwegian newspaper editor. He was born in Orkdal Municipality as a son of farmer Johan Solstad (1896–1989) and Marit Skauge (1910–2000). He finished his secondary education in Orkdal in 195 ...

, and from 1977 also together with

Jahn Otto Johansen Jahn Otto Johansen (3 May 1934 – 1 January 2018) was a Norwegian journalist, newspaper editor, foreign correspondent and non-fiction writer. He worked for the newspaper ''Morgenposten'' from 1956 to 1966, for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corpor ...

. He chaired the

from 1966 ro 1971. Storsletten died in

Oslo Oslo ( or ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of 1,064,235 in 2022 ...

on 6 February 1991, at the age of 75.

References

1915 births 1991 deaths Norwegian newspaper editors Dagbladet people 20th-century Norwegian writers Chairs of the Association of Norwegian Editors {{Norway-writer-stub