Per Øyvind Heradstveit

Per Øyvind Heradstveit (26 May 1932 – 11 May 2004) was a Norwegian television journalist and non-fiction writer. He was born in Skjold in Ryfylke and grew up in Hardanger. He was the brother of Daniel Heradstveit.

Heradstveit worked for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) from 1956, and for the television division from 1961. He was among the best known television personalities in Norway, hosting the daily news review Dagsrevyen and a number of television debates. Among his books were Hemmelige tjenester (1973), on intelligence and espionage, and Einar Gerhardsen og hans menn (1981), on power struggles within the Norwegian Labour Party.