Journalism & Media International Center
Participants from four countries came for the training (Photo: Rebecca Tadesse Hunde)
JMIC conducted a safety training for journalists in Addis Ababa last week, in collaboration with Addis Ababa University and NLA University College. Read More
Marte Høiby Friday 13 December 2019
Marte Høiby defended her thesis “JOURNALISM UNDER PRESSURE – A cross-national study of antipress violence and journalist safety” at OsloMet 13 December. Read More
Violet Gonda, president of the International Association of Women in Radio and Television (IAWRT) with the book in Manila.
International Association of Women in Radio and Television (IAWRT) presented the bookTransnational Othering – Global Diversities, Media, Extremism and Free Expression during the conference Women journalists fight back! in Manila in the Philippines 7 November. Read More
Guy Berger at OsloMet last week
UNESCOs new report Intensified Attacks, New Defences Developments in the Fight to Protect Journalists and End Impunity was presented at Oslo last week under the headline #KeepTruthAlive Read More
PHOTO (From left:) Bora Ataman, Baris Coban, Abeer Saady, Elisabeth Eide, Kristin Skare Orgeret, Mubashar Hasan, Afshin Ismaeli and Atta Ansari
The anthology “Transnational Othering – Global Diversities” was launched for the third time at OsloMet, during the 5th journalist safety conference organized by the MEKK research group in co-operation with UNESCO, Free Expression Foundation, JMIC and the Digital media research group.
At the launch, several chapter contributors as well as two of the three editors participated, and made short presentations of their own work.
Elisabeth Eide and Abdul Mujeeb Khalvatgar
“Transnational Othering – Global Diversities” was launched in Kabul 4th November, hosted by Nai Supporting Open Media in Afghanistan. Read More
Photo (from left): Ade Armando, Nina Mutmainnah, Apriline Widani from the Norwegian Embassy in Jakarta, Lestari Nurhajati, Elisabeth Eide, Abeer Saady, Andina Dwifatma and Ming-Kuok LIM from UNESCO in Jakarta.
The anthology «Transnational Othering – Global Diversities» had its first launch in Depok, a city just outside Jakarta, Indonesia on 30th November, at Universitas Indonesia, the largest university in the country.
This was part of a three day event, including a two day workshop on teaching gender in journalism and media studies. Read More
NEW BOOK OUT!
A new anthology has just been published by Nordicom:
Transnational Othering – Global Diversities, Media, Extremism and Free Expression This is an open access book, which can be downloaded here:
https://www.nordicom.gu.se/sv/publikationer/transnational-othering-global-diversities
The book is the result of cooperation across many borders during the last three years, with contributions from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Norway, PakistanTunisia, and Turkey. Contributors include both academics and journalists. The anthology is divided into three parts:
Editors: Elisabeth Eide (OsloMet), Kristin Skare Orgeret (OsloMet) and Nil Mutluer, Humboldt University, Berlin.
Abeer Saady and Shahidul Alam in Dublin this week
JMIC´s safety trainer Abeer Saady attended 2019 Dublin Platform for Human Rights Defenders this week.
Among over 120 human rights defenders from more than 80 countries was also Shahidul Alam, Person of the Year in Time magazine last year – a long time cooperation partner of OsloMet. Read More
Marte Hoiby about threats and dangers (Photo: Lada Price)
JMIC staff Marte Hoiby held a journalist safety workshop at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK this summer.
