Ingvald Bernhoft Jacobsen (15 April 1891 – 1 February 1945) was a Norwegian newspaper editor. He was born in Alstahaug, and in his early career he worked as a fisher and seaman, then a typographer. He edited the newspaper , but was fired in 1912 for political reasons. He was first active in a trade union and the before joining the Norwegian Labour Party in 1914. He was hired as subeditor of the party's newspaper Sørlandets Socialdemokrat in 1915, and was promoted to editor of Tidens Krav in 1918 and in 1921.