Lars-Jacob Krogh

Lars-Jacob Krogh was a Norwegian anchorman and television presenter.

Biography

He was born at Nes in Akershus, Norway. Krogh studied at the University of Oslo in 1958-63. He earned his Master's degree in English language and literature after studying at Wadham College, University of Oxford which he attended under a Norwegian Oxford scholarship from 1960-61. He attended the College of Europe at Bruges 1964-1965.
Krogh started working for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation in 1965, where he covered, among other things, the Norwegian [European Communities">Norway">Norwegian [European Communities membership referendum|European Community membership referendum] in 1972.
Krogh worked for TVNorge in the period 1994-96. Back in NRK he was one year in NRK Sport in 1997 before he was back in the news department.
From 2003 he was the editor of Radio Kongsvinger.
In 2008 he received The [King's Medal of Merit] in gold.
Krogh died from amyotrophic [lateral sclerosis]. Krogh was diagnosed with Lyme disease in the fall of 2009, but this was based on a test that was not scientifically validated.