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Vegard Sletten

1907–1984

Nationality
Norway
Occupation
journalist

Vegard Sletten (8 May 1907 – 17 December 1984) was a Norwegian newspaper editor.

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Biography

Vegard Sletten (8 May 1907 – 17 December 1984) was a Norwegian newspaper editor. He worked in Stavanger Aftenblad from 1929 to 1945, except for the World War II years during parts of which he was imprisoned, and then in Verdens Gang from 1945. He edited the latter newspaper from 1967 to 1977, and chaired both the Norwegian Union of Journalists and the Norwegian Press Association. Like his father Klaus Sletten he was also a Nynorsk supporter.

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