Reidar Stavseth (May 21, 1907 – April 12, 1991) was a Norwegian newspaper editor and a politician for the Conservative Party. He served as editor for many different newspapers and is best known for having been the editor-in-chief of Adresseavisen in Trondheim from 1969 to 1975. He belonged to a group of journalists with "a clearly conservative attitude and an academic education."