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About P. Moe-Johansen
- Petter Moe-Johansen, usually known as P.
- Moe-Johansen (16 October 1882 – 1 April 1952) was a Norwegian newspaper editor and politician for the Labour and Social Democratic Labour parties. He was born in Ørskog.
- He started his journalistic career at the age of sixteen, and in 1904 he became editor-in-chief of the Aalesund newspaper Nybrott.
- He then edited Nordlys, and Den 1ste Mai.
- He took over from Johan Gjøstein in 1906, but fell out with the newspaper owners and the local party, and was replaced by Cornelius Holmboe in 1908.
- In 1911 Moe-Johansen took over the editor chair in Smaalenenes Socialdemokrat.
- He remained editor until 1943, when he was deposed as a part of Nazi rule.
- Nonetheless Tore Pryser reports him to have become positive to the Nazi rule after some time.He was also a municipal politician.
- When his Labour Party split in 1921, Moe Johansen joined the more right-wing Social Democratic Labour Party.
- He was one of the main agitators in the labour press against the Twenty-one Conditions.
- When the parties reunited in 1927 he rejoined the Labour Party.
- Østfold county had been dominated completely by the Social Democratic Labour Party, as one of the few counties where the Labour Party was not largest.
- When the parties reunited, Moe-Johansen's newspaper hoped to be the county newspaper, but it was instead diminished to a local newspaper as the cities Sarpsborg and Halden now both had newspapers.He died in October 1952 and was buried in Glemmen.
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