Per Edgar Kokkvold [SEP] date of birth
Per Edgar Kokkvold
Per Edgar Kokkvold (born 26 March 1946) is a Norwegian journalist, former editor and secretary-general of the Norwegian Press Association, and current chair of the Norwegian Broadcasting Council.
Kokkvold was born in Røros. He spent most of his career in "Arbeiderbladet", where he was foreign news commentator from 1973 to 1984, foreign news editor from 1984 to 1991 and editor (not editor-in-chief) from 1991 to 1996. He was the secretary-general of the Norwegian Press
, 2015. The winners were Kristin Solberg and Per Edgar Kokkvold. Solberg had served for a decade as Aftenposten's correspondent in Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, and the Middle East. Kokkvold, a columnist for Aftenposten, had also worked as Secretary-General of the Norwegian Press Association, a position he held during the Danish cartoon crisis of 2006, when he had been subjected to death threats. In 2014 he was named head of Kringkastingsrådet, the official advisory council for the Norwegian government's broadcasting corporation, NRK.