Trygve Ramberg

Trygve Ramberg (1 March 1932 – 31 May 2002) was a Norwegian newspaper editor.

He was born in Lillehammer as a son of Birger Ramberg and Mathilde Fredriksen,[1] and a brother of Knut Ramberg.[2]

He finished his secondary education in 1950, and was hired as a journalistic apprentice in Gudbrandsdølen and Lillehammer Tilskuer in the same year. After studies in California he was hired in Aftenposten in 1955. After a short period as PR director of Esso-Raffineriet Norge from 1958 he returned to Aftenposten in 1960.[1] Here he was promoted to news editor in 1970 and editor-in-chief in 1978. He left in 1986 to work nine years as the chief executive officer of Universitetsforlaget.[2] According to his successor Terje Osmundsen, the publishing house had accumulated a 20 million kr deficit.[3]

Ramberg also chaired the Norwegian Students' Society in 1958, the Norwegian Press Association from 1971 to 1975 and the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation from 1990 to 1998.[4] In the Norwegian Publishers' Association he became a board member in 1987, vice chair in 1989 and chair from 1993 to 1996 before he left the board in 1998.[5] He was also a board member of the Norwegian Union of Journalists from 1964 to 1966,[1] the Association of Norwegian Editors, the International Press Institute and the National Gallery of Norway.[4] He was decorated as a Knight, First Class of the Order of St. Olav in 1997.[6]

He died in 2002.[2] He was married to Mona Lyche Ramberg, an accomplished translator and daughter of Karl and Ingeborg Lyche, who died in 2005. The couple had two sons.[7] They resided in Bærum.[1]