Journalism & Media International Center
Photojournalism students from China, Bangladesh, Nepal and Norway attended a start-up workshop in Nepal last week with world-famous Christopher Morris and Philip Blenkinsop from VII Academy as tutors.
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Abeer Saady teaching the students how to protect each other (Photo: Nima Taheri)
JMIC safety trainer Abeer Saady held a one day safety workshop in Oslo this week. Read More
I am Syed Muhammad Saqib, a PhD scholar at the Institute of Communication Studies, University of the Punjab, Pakistan and Assistant Professor at Department of Mass Communications, Forman Christian College Lahore. Read More
Amani Abdulrahman (left) discussing her work with fellow students and workshop participants, Masa Faleh and Reem Marie (right). (Photo Mathias Falch)
This week JMIC arranged a workshop on news journalism in Nablus in co-operation with An-Najah National University. Read More
The students from Nepal, Bangladesh, China and Norway the last day of the six weeks training – with some of the Chinese helpers.
After six weeks in the field students from Nepal, Bangladesh, Norway and China are heading home with the luggage full of new images. Read More
For the tenth time, journalist students at OsloMet produce stories about the situation of press freedom around the world.
He received the price for the story about the 9-year-old Chinese ping-pong-talent Huang´s life as a student at Dondan Academy in Beijing (the film)
The video was a part of his graduation project created during the course in International Reporting, which is a part of the Bachelor’s Programme in photojournalism.
The College Photographer of the Year (COPY) competition is the world’s biggest photojournalistic competition for college students.
The jury had to go through 11 000 images and 140 multimedia projects entered by 494 student photographers from 123 colleges and universities in 22 countries (read more)
They are produced as a part of the the Council of Europe/European Union Joint project on “Freedom of expression and media freedom in Azerbaijan”, which is part of the Partnership for Good Governance for Eastern Partnership countries.
Together with the Azerbaijani colleagues Ibrahimpasha Babayev, Aynur Bashirov and Aliakhbar Muradov, Jon Petter Evensen from the Photojournalism program at HiOA has written the Photojournalism textbook Fotojournalistika. Read More
Meanwhile is one of two Norwegian exhibitions on display during the 7th Dali International Photography Exhibition (DIPE).
The HiOA photojournalism alumnis Knut Egil Wang and Eivind Natvig are part of a joint Norwegian exhibition with colleague Helge Skodvin.
HiOA faculty member Jon Petter Evensen participated in this year’s DIPE-forum round table discussion on how to use festivals as a platform to support and develop education in photography, together with the HiOA partners Shahidul Alam from Pathshala South Asian Media Institute in Bangladesh and Liui Bao from Mino Art Center in China.
The Meanwhile exhibition on display in Dali
Head of the DIPE organizing committee Lihui Bao in the exhibition hall in Dali
The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has given JMIC a grant that will enable us to continue the activities with partners in the Global South planned for the next two years.
JMIC´s aim is to build institutions for democracy and freedom of expression: ”Support of good practices in journalist education, independent media in vulnerable countries, protection of journalists working in conflict zones and journalists’ access to information. ”
In the coming year, several activities are planned. A workshop on extremism and social media is planned this autumn in Tunisia – as well as a regional security course next year. A regional security course is also planned in Uganda.
In cooperation with the Article 19 offices in North Africa, Eastern Africa and South Asia regional workshops on access to information are planned in Tunisia, Kenya and Nepal. We will also strengthen the cooperation with UNESCO.
The Rig on press freedom will be introduced in Palestine, a conference on gender and media is scheduled in South Asia, and cooperation will continue in Iran and Afghanistan. Besides, a regional cooperation project on visual journalism in China will continue. Development of teaching material is an ongoing activity, and a web portal will be prioritized.
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