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Anders Tvegård

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Anders Tvegård (born August 6, 1975, in Porsgrunn) is a Norwegian journalist. He was US-correspondent for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) based in Washington, D.C., from 2010 to 2014. Tvegård previously worked at the foreign news desk and as news anchor on the same channel.

He was educated at Volda University College (1996–98), Darlington College of Technology (1995–96) and the University of Oslo. He has been working for NRK since 1998.

Tvegård has been reporting from conflict zones and disaster areas like the tsunami in Thailand (2004), the Israeli–Lebanese war (2006), the war on Gaza (2008),[1] the last days of the civil war in Sri Lanka (2009), Afghanistan (2009) and the tsunami in Japan (2011)[2]

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  1. ^ Løkkebø, Lars (January 2, 2009). "Feiret nyttår i en krigssone" [Celebrated New Year's in a war zone]. Telemarksavisa (in Norwegian). Retrieved January 2, 2009.
  2. ^ Tvegård, Anders (March 19, 2011). "Jordskjelvets tårer fra solens rike" [Tears from the land of the rising sun]. NRK (in Norwegian). Retrieved March 19, 2011.

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Preceded by NRK correspondent in Washington, DC
2010–2014
Succeeded by