Ivar Tveit

Ivar Tveit (18 September 1880 – 1952) was a Norwegian newspaper editor.

He hailed from Hyllestad.^[1] He edited the newspaper Velgeren from 1907 to 1925,^[2] then from 1927 Sogns Avis in Vikøyri. In 1932 he started the newspaper Sogn in Leikanger, renamed Sogn og Fjordane in 1936. He edited the newspaper until 1947, except for a period during the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany when he had to flee to Sweden.^[3] The newspaper belonged to the Agrarian Party.

Tveit was also a member of the Defence Commission of 1920.^[4]