The longtime NRK journalist – and host Ole Torp (69) is retiring.
It was the industry website Medier24 who first came with the news on Tuesday afternoon.
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The Bergen man, who turns 70 on December 17, is actually formally employed by NRK until the New Year, but has taken a holiday in the last weeks of the year.
Due to the sharpened corona measures, the big farewell party in the state channel is waiting, and Torp tells of a quiet last day at work.
– It was uneventful. I packed the books, spruced down the desk and thanked myself in an email to old colleagues. It was all right that it was toned down, and I went without big fanfares, he says to Medier24.
The veteran, on the other hand, has been downplayed with messages of thanks both on email and in social media after his 30 years at NRK.
Praise is also common from the editor of the News Division in NRK, Knut Magnus Berge, who describes Torp’s time in national broadcasting as “a unique career” on Instagram.
– After I was released unharmed in the open, my mailbox boiled with greetings. It did on Facebook too, so it’s a little fun, the 69-year-old continues.
In his 30 years at NRK, Torp has been a correspondent in the USA and China, a foreign reporter, cultural reporter and presenter. Before he came to NRK, he was in Bergens Arbeiderblad (now Bergensavisen) and Dagbladet.
– I have some plans to continue journalism, but not something I am ready to talk about specifically, says Torp.
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