Carl Just (10 September 1897 – 16 October 1990) was a Norwegian journalist.

Early and personal life

He was born in

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to the wholesaler Carl Johan Beckman (1871–1931) and his wife Selma Augusta Just (1877–1946). Just grew up in Kristiania with

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. He never met his father, but met his mother once in his adult life. He married Margaretha Aximia Lundqvist (1894–1969) in 1919.

Career

In 1917–19, he worked as a journalist in the Norwegian newspaper ''

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''. After that, he moved to

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, where he became

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of '' Folkets Avis''. From 1921 to 1928, he was an editor of the Christian newspaper '' Dagen''. Thereafter, he worked in the news department of the broadcasting corporation in Bergen for two years. He edited ''

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'' from 1928 to 1936. After a brief period in ''

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'', Just became the editor-in-chief of a number of weekly magazines and yearbooks. Just was the rector of the Norwegian Journalist Academy throughout its existence, from 1951 to 1964. From 1950 to 1965 he was also the editor of the

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yearbook. He has published several books about journalism as well as the city of Oslo. In 1966 he was the editor of the second edition of the Oslo City Encyclopedia.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Just, Carl 1897 births 1990 deaths Norwegian magazine editors Norwegian encyclopedists Norwegian non-fiction writers Writers from Oslo 20th-century Norwegian journalists