New board of JMIC

Journalism and Media International Center – JMIC – the short name, now has this board:

 

Anne Hege Simonsen from the Department of Journalism and Media Studies is the head.  

Ann-Helén Bay is representing the Faculty of Social Sciences.  

Atta Ansari is an investigative journalist from the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK).

Substitute members of the board are Steen Steensen and Kristin Skare Orgeret from the Department of Journalism and Media Studies and Amund Bakke Foss from the media company Verdens Gang (VG).

One of the first tasks of the  new board has been to develop a platform and guidelines for the center.

More about the university college, which will be a university in 2018

Doing the Rig on Press Freedom with Palestinian journalism students

Teachers and students with their certificate at the last day of the Rig on press freedom. Foto: Private

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Focus: Investigative journalism

 

Hamida El Bour is the Director of L’Institut de presse et des sciences de l’information (IPSI) at Université de la Manouba

Journalists from Libya, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia came to Tunis 6-7 December to attend a workshop in investigative journalism.

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