Oddvar Korme was a Norwegian journalist.

He studied philology

Philology

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 and was hired as an Oslo correspondent for Bergens Tidende

Bergens Tidende

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in 1947. In 1948 he was hired in the newspaper Norges Handels- og Sjøfartstidende

Dagens Næringsliv

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(now: Dagens Næringsliv). He was promoted to editor in 1970, and retired in 1992. He successively worked with the many editors-in-chief during his time: Eivind Thon, Terje Baalsrud

Terje Baalsrud

Terje Baalsrud was a Norwegian newspaper editor.He was born in Kristiansand as a son of Andreas Baalsrud and his wife Christine Andrea Christofersen . He was a first cousin of Jan Baalsrud. He finished his secondary education in Kristiania in 1932, and started as a journalist in Fedrelandslaget's...

, Helge Seip

Helge Seip

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, Arne Hartmark, Eric Cameron, Jan Erik Knarbakk and Kåre Valebrokk

Kåre Valebrokk

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His main fields of writing were travelling, film criticism and theatre criticism. He was also active in the Norwegian branch of PEN

International PEN

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. He died in August 2009.