About Frøy Kannert
Born 1949. Frøy Kannert is a Norwegian journalist.
Frøy Kannert (born 19 May 1949) is a Norwegian journalist and politician for the Labour Party.
She grew up in Porsgrunn as a daughter of author Margaret Johansen (1923–2013) and office manager Harry Arnoldus Borchgrevink Kannert (1919–1952). Frøy Kannert took a cand.mag. degree, minoring in criminology, penal law and sociology as well as journalism. She worked at the Norwegian Journalist Academy, NRK Radio and Dagbladet. In 1993 she resigned from Dagbladet and moved to Longyearbyen. She left Svalbard in the spring of 1996. She was a board member of Kings Bay and Bjørnøen AS. She was also appointed to . After leaving politics, Kannert was an editor in Newswire and a department director for the government agency (formerly Vox). She married and had two children, and resides at Stabekk.
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Norwegian journalist
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Frøy Kannert was born in 1949.
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Frøy Kannert is Norwegian.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Frøy Kannert. https://biography.guide/froy-kannert/
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