Erling Hall-Hofsø, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Norwegian politician and newspaper editor
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About Erling Hall-Hofsø
- Erling Hall-Hofsø (11 January 1917 – 20 May 2010) was a Norwegian newspaper editor and politician for the Labour Party. In his young days he was a boxer for the workers' sports club Harstad AIF.
- He became a member of the central board of the Workers' Youth League in 1938.
- In 1946 he was hired as a journalist in the Labour newspaper in Harstad, Folkeviljen.
- He was promoted to editor-in-chief already in 1947.
- He remained here until 1956, when the newspaper was incorporated by Tromsø-based newspaper Nordlys.Hall-Hofsø became famous in 1953.
- His newspaper printed a short piece about an attempted rape which had occurred in Harstad.
- The police demanded that Hall-Hofsø unveil his source for the news story, but he refused.
- He was sentenced to jail for maximum three months, with the option of being released if he unveiled his source.
- The case went all the way to the Supreme Court of Norway, who sided with the prosecutors.
- After seventeen days of imprisonment, Hall-Hofsø was released on 3 March 1953 because the source stood forward.
- A chapter in Martin Eide's book Den redigerende makt is devoted to the incident.After Folkeviljen was amalgamated into Nordlys, he became leader of the newspaper's Harstad office.
- He retired in 1987.
- He was also involved in politics, as a member of Sandtorg municipal council from 1948 to 1960, Harstad municipal council from 1960 to 1978 and Troms county council from 1968 to 1972.
- He also chaired the local school board for four years, and was an honorary member of the Labour Party.
- He co-founded the Festival of North Norway in 1963, and was chairman of its board for the first six years.
- He died in January 2010.
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