Journalism & Media International Center
Three women journalists from Saudi Arabia, Vietnam and Malta are the recipients of the Press Freedom Awards of Reporters without borders.
Abeer Saady, representing JMIC and International Association of Women in Radio and Television (IAWRT), reports from the awards ceremony in Berlin:
Kristin Orgeret and Roy Krøvel opened the seminar
A Seminar on “Experiences of decolonization of higher education” was held at OsloMet last week.
Photo CIJ Nepal
11 journalists were gathered in Kathmandu for three days this week to learn how to investigate stories by Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) – Nepal. For ten months they will work with in-depth investigative stories, hopefully to be published next summer. Read More
From the opening in Oslo (Photo: Ellen Lande Gossner)
Ten of the projects from the photo exhibition “Golden Pig” is exhibited in Oslo for the first time. Read More
Photo: Indonesian Embassy
In late June this year, JMIC co-organized an event with the Embassy of Indonesia in Oslo under the title ‘The Role of Civil Societies in Facing Radicalism in Indonesia’, with two invited scholars of Islam in Indonesia, Dr. Marsudi Syuhud and Dr. Abdul Muki. Read More
The student group (Photo: Mathias Falch)
62 students rounded off their first year at OsloMet’s journalism studies with an intense two week long workshop on press freedom.
Since 2002 Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has published an annual ranking of press freedom in 180 countries. This year’s index shows that hate and violence against journalists have increased. Read More
Photo (from left): Per Mattsson, Bernt Eide, Jon Petter Evensen, Cathrine Gladh, Søren Pagter, Mads Greve and Terje Lindblom.
The preparations for a Nordic Master in Photojournalism continues.
Shahidul Alam from Pathshala and David Engmo, student at OsloMet
Students from four countries opened an exhibition and launched a book with fresh images from China – Golden Pig – during DOK19 in Fredrikstad 24 May.
In his opening remarks, Shahidul Alam, the founder of Pathshala South Asian Media Institute in Bangladesh, drew the line back to the start of the cooperation with partners in Norway around twenty years ago.
Afterwards a new cooperation agreement with Pathshala was signed by Marja Lundell, the Director of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Oslo Metropolitan University, present at the opening in Fredrikstad.
One student and one teacher came from photo.circle in Nepal, from Pathshala in Bangladesh and from Mino Art Center in China – to celebrate with ten Norwegian students, friends and colleagues.
Most of them were participants at DOK19 – a national festival for documentary photography and photojournalism running from 23 until 25 May.
The exhibition outside the House of Literature
Students from China, Nepal, Bangladesh and Norway meeting again
Marja Lundell from OsloMet with Shahidul Alam from Pathshala
JMICs two-day conference on the above topic took place earlier this week, with appr. 30 speakers and panellists. The participants represented a diversity of views and experiences, which was demonstrated both by the Scandinavian variety when it comes to the #metoo campaign and treatment of right-wing extremists, to a discussion on the invitation of Steve Bannon to the Nordic Media Days in Bergen. Experiences from countries where giving platform to extremists entails mainstreaming terrorists (Pakistan, Bangladesh, Tunisia, etc.) were exchanged. War reporters discussed the challenge of embedding and giving voice to jihadists. And a lively conversation with Peter Münster from Facebook took place after screening the film “The Cleaners”.
Keynote speaker Eric Heinze discussed in-depth arguments for and against No platforming.
A short text cannot pay justice to such a full program. The organizers will consider a publication from this conference.
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.
