Reidar Stavseth (May 21, 1907 – April 12, 1991) was a Norwegian newspaper editor and a politician for the Conservative Party.
He received his examen artium at Trondheim Cathedral School in 1927, a degree in economics at Royal Frederick University in 1929, and also attended a semester at the Norwegian Institute of Technology.
[2][3] Stavseth served as secretary of the Trondheim Riksmål Society before he became the editor of the newspaper Finnmarksposten in Hammerfest in 1930.
At the outbreak of the Second World War, he was again in Møre county as chairman of the Ålesund Young Conservatives and as the editor of Aalesunds Avis,[2] which was "published as one of the last free newspapers in Norway".
[1] After Norway's liberation in 1945, Stavseth worked as the secretary for the Young Conservatives and as editor of its party newspaper, Unge Høire.