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Odd Rikard Olsen (18 June 1947 – 10 April 2012) was a Norwegian newspaper editor and politician for the
Conservative Party The Conservative Party is a name used by many political parties around the world. These political parties are generally right-wing though their exact ideologies can range from center-right to far-right. Political parties called The Conservative P ...
. He was born in Tromsø and grew up in
Kvænangen Municipality Kvænangen ( sme, Návuotna; fkv, Naavuono) is a municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Burfjord. The European route E6 highway goes through the municipality and over ...
. After the examen artium he started working as an office clerk in Hammerfest in 1968. He was later hired as a journalist in '' Finnmarksposten'', '' Bladet Tromsø'', '' Aftenposten'' and the
Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation NRK, an abbreviation of the Norwegian ''Norsk Rikskringkasting AS'', generally expressed in English as the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, is the Norwegian government-owned radio and television public broadcasting company, and the largest ...
. He was then editor-in-chief of ''
Sør-Varanger Avis ''Sør-Varanger Avis'' is a Norwegian newspaper, published in Kirkenes, Norway, and covering the municipality of Sør-Varanger Sør-Varanger ( sme, Máttá-Várjjat, fkv, Etelä-Varenki, fi, Etelä-Varanki, russian: Сёр-Вара́нгер/S ...
'' from 1982 to 1990 and '' Harstad Tidende'' from 1991 to 2004, then political editor in ''Harstad Tidende'' from 2004 until his death. He has been a board member of the Association of Norwegian Editors. In politics, he was a member of Finnmark county council from 1987 to 1990 and State Secretary in the Ministry of Trade and Industry in
Syse's Cabinet Syse's Cabinet was a minority centre-right Conservative, Centre, Christian Democrat Government of Norway. It succeeded the Labour Second cabinet Brundtland after the 1989 election, and sat between 16 October 1989 and 3 November 1990. It was repla ...
. He died in April 2012 in his Harstad home.


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1947 births 2012 deaths People from Kvænangen Finnmark politicians Conservative Party (Norway) politicians Norwegian state secretaries Norwegian newspaper editors People from Harstad Politicians from Tromsø {{Norway-writer-stub