Ole Norvald Hoemsnes (born 15 December 1927) is a Norwegian journalist. He was born in Fræna. He was hired as a political journalist in Morgenbladet in 1959, in Morgenposten in 1963 and in Aftenposten in 1964. From 1966 to 1970 he chaired the trade union Norwegian Union of Journalists, and from 1970 to 1971 he worked as a press counsellor in the Norwegian Office of the Prime Minister. He played a central role in the fall of the cabinet for which he was working; the Borten cabinet. Hoemsnes chronicled his own role in the 1986 book Skjebnedøgn.