Afghanistan – no country for journalism?
On Tuesday 14 June JMIC (Journalism & Media International Center) at OsloMet presented a report on the development of Afghan journalism after the Taliban takeover in mid-August 2021.
The study is based on analysis of media content from six Afghan outlets, as well as interviews with prominent media leaders, and journalists still working inside Afghanistan. It is to our knowledge the most comprehensive report on this issue so far.
The event was addressed by:
H.E. Youssof Ghafoorzai, Afghanistan’s Ambassador to Norway, Oddgeir Osland, Dean at the Faculty of Social Sciences, OsloMet, and Knut Olav Åmås, Director, Free Expression Foundation.
The report was presented by:
Elisabeth Eide (Professor Emerita, project leader), Hasina Shirzad (MA student, OsloMet), and Zahir Athari (researcher, UiO).
Other team members are postdoc fellow at OsloMet Mahmud Farjami as well as Abdul Mujeeb Khalvatgar, Director of Nai-SOMA, a media watchdog in Afghanistan, who could not be present at the occasion.
The presentation was followed by comments from Mr. Sharif Hassanyar, previous Director of Ariana TV network in Afghanistan Kristian Berg Harpviken, Research Professor, Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
Responses from the authors and questions from the audience.
The event was streamed for those who could not attend physically.
More information about the event on the OsloMet homepage:
https://www.oslomet.no/en/about/events/afghanistan-journalists
The link to the recording:
https://film.oslomet.no/afghanistan-et-land-der-1
Read more:
Afghan media landscape drastically changed, finds study – Pajhwok Afghan News
(In Norwegian):
Aftenposten:
https://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kronikk/i/Wjp7zL/overlever-journalistikken-i-afghanistan
Journalisten:
Uniforum:
https://www.uniforum.uio.no/nyheter/2022/06/journalistikken-i-afghanistan-er-truga.html
UiO:
KRONIKK: Akademia i Afghanistan i eksistensiell krise – Uniforum (uio.no)
The launch: https://film.oslomet.no/afghanistan-et-land-der-1
The printed report is available by clicking here.
All photos by Pål Arne Kvalnes, OsloMet.