Urgent Media Notice from IAWRT
The International Association of Women in Radio and Television (IAWRT) strongly condemns the brutal shooting of IAWRT member Malalai Maiwand and her driver in Afghanistan.
Read MoreNEW GRANT FOR 2021
Section for Human Rights, Democracy and Gender Equality in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has given JMIC (Journalism & Media International Center) a new grant of NOK 5 million to continue the work to strengthen institutions for freedom of expression and democracy in countries in the south.
Read MoreStaying safe during riots and corona
Nepalese photojournalists connected with photo.circle met JMIC safety trainer Abeer Saady online Sunday 6 September.
Read MoreNew head of media and journalism studies
Nathalie Hyde-Clarke is the new leader of Department of journalism and media studies at the Faculty of social sciences at OsloMet.
She is originally from South Africa, but has lived in Finland the last six years, where she was Head of the Department of Culture and Media at Arcada University of Applied Sciences. She was also a Docent in Media and Communication at the University of Helsinki.
She started in her new job in Oslo 1 August, and headed her first staff meeting this week on zoom.
Semester starts – mostly online: The world is little on zoom
Teacher of photojournalism Ellen Lande Gossner used recent examples from international cooperation when she spoke about her experiences of teaching during the coronacrisis.
Read MoreNEW ANTHOLOGY PUBLISHED
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:
- PART ONE: Extremism and the media: Shifting sands
- PART TWO: Freedom of expression and new challenges
- PART THREE: The changing shades of global diversities
Editors: Elisabeth Eide (OsloMet), Kristin Skare Orgeret (OsloMet) and Nil Mutluer, Humboldt University, Berlin.
PRESS FREEDOM DAY
The department of journalism and media studies supported by JMIC today honoured the Press Freedom day with a keynote on cartoons and free expression, a panel discussion and a film screening. Even if Norway is top ranked in the annual list from Reporters Without Borders, the panel mentioned several issues of concern, such as threats and harassment against journalists, political propositions which limit access to information and journalist autonomy, and surveillance. These factors also open for more journalists exercising a proportion of self censorship, which is a frightening development.
Sidsel Avlund from NRK (Public Broadcasting) presented a survey showing that almost a third of their journalists (29 percent) had experienced harassment, threats etc., and that many of them did not even speak about this to others.
Panel from left to right: Arne Jensen, President of Norwegian Editors Union; Per Elvestuen, Director of Oslo Freedom Forum and cartoonist; Elin Floberghagen, Norwegian Press Association; and Sidsel Avlund, from the Norwegian Public Broadcasting, responsible for journalist safety.
«No Platforming and Free Expression» 6th and 7th of May 2019, OsloMet
No Platforming has been much debated across the world due to instances, where individuals have been barred from participating as university speakers, in public panels, and other fora. Opponents to No platforming highlight the dangers of muting controversial voices and fear it can undermine free expression. This conference attempts to address some of the controversies in open and constructive exchanges, and has invited speakers and panelists from several countries, representing a variety of views and experiences.
The particpants
Andina Dwifatma, writer, Indonesia
Ade Armando, Associate professor and journalist, Indonesia
Quatrina Hosain, activist & journalist, Karachi, Pakistan
Niels Ivar Larsen, journalist at Information, Denmark
Eric Heinze, Professor at the School of Law, Queen Mary University of London
Abeer Saady, reporter & PhD fellow, Egypt and Germany
Lena Anderson, writer and journalist, Sweden
Foto: Fabian af Petersens
Essia Atrous, journalist & writer, Tunisia
Lars Gule, Associate Professor at OsloMet
Nora Mehsen, writer & freelancer
Camara Lundestad Joof, writer & artist
Shazia Majid, author and journalist in VG
Mina Adampour, medical doctor & writer
Anne Birgitta Nilsen, Professor at OsloMet
Ane Stø, leader of Ottar Feminist group
Tine Eide, Assistant Professor & Journalist, OsloMet
Bente Kalsnes, Associate Professor at OsloMet
Peter Münster, Facebook – Head of Communications for the Nordic region
Hans Rustad, Editor of Document.no
Mari Skurdal, Editor-in-Chief Klassekampen
Foto: Siv Dolmen.
Maren Fuchsia Celius-Blix, writer & commentator
Ingeborg Senneset, journalist, author and board member Norwegian PEN
Ervin Kohn, deputy director, The Norwegian Center against Racism
Elisabeth Eide, Professor OsloMet
Ahmedur Rashid Chowdhury, Editor of Shuddashahr Magazine, Bangladesh/Norway
Atta Ansari, reporter NRK
Afshin Ismaeli, reporter Aftenposten
Anna M. Grøndal Larsen, Associate Professor at OsloMet
Ingerid Salvesen, Assistant Professor, OsloMet & journalist
Anne-Cécilie Sibué-Birkeland, Theatre Director at Black Box
Knut Olav Åmås, Director, Free Expression Foundation
Andreas Delsett, Artistic Director Oslo House of Literature
Pål Refsdal, Documentary Filmmaker
Ingrid Fadnes, Assistant Professor, OsloMet & journalist
Access to Information workshop in Bangladesh
A two day workshop on access to information as a journalistic tool was organized by Article 19 Bangladesh and South Asia and JMIC in Dhaka last week.
The 22 participants came from all over the country, and work on different media platforms.
Main trainer Julfikar Ali Manik (Photo: Rofiqur Rahman Reku/Article 19)
The Norwegian ambassador Sidsel Bleken opened the workshop. Present were also two former Chief Information Commissioners, diplomats, editors, teachers and journalists. The main trainer was the investigative journalist Julfikar Ali Manik, who is a stringer for The New York Times.
Communicator of the year
JMIC staff Bente Kalnes has been awarded as communicator of the year by the Association of Norwegian Media Researchers.