Reidar Rye Haugan (September 18, 1893 – October 1972) was an American newspaper editor and publisher.
[1] Together with his mother and sister, Haugan immigrated to the United States at 21 years of age, arriving in New York City on April 3, 1915.
[2] Initially Haugan had worked for the editorial staff of the Norwegian language newspaper Skandinaven in Chicago.
When Skandinaven suspended publication in 1941, Haugan established the Norwegian language newspaper Viking on which he served as both editor and publisher.
In 1958, Norwegian-American journalist and author Bertram Jensenius (1898-1976), who came to the United States in 1922, took over Viking, renamed it Vinland and published it until his death in 1976.