JMIC staff member Rune Ottosen has been appointed as a member of the Norwegian National Commission for UNESCO in the period 2017-2020 by the Minister of Education and Research Torbjørn Røe Isaksen.

The new Commission has eight members from different academic and civil sectors. The composition of the Commission reflects the four disciplines UNESCO: education, science, culture and communication.

The National Commission’s mandate is to promote UNESCO’s ideas and make UNESCO known in the Norwegian society. Co-operation with other National Commissions and international actors is a priority for the Commission. Read more

They are attending a course in human rights organized by International Law and Policy Institute (ILPI) for the third time in Norway 21 – 25 November.

The delegation´s visit is part of a larger human rights project focusing on capacity building in international human rights standards and mechanisms. The theme of this course is journalism, freedom of expression, privacy, defamation, ethics and mechanisms for self-regulation and complaints.

The participants represents the Journalist´s Association, the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, Social Communication Ministry and civil society organizations in Angola, according to ILPI advisor Anja S. Østgård.

JMIC staff member Jon Petter Evensen is appointed member of the jury for The World Press Photo Contest 2017. Jon Petter Evensen will serve on the specialist jury for Short form in the Digital Storytelling Contest. The Digital Storytelling Contest reward «those producing the best forms of visual journalism enabled by digital technologies and the spread of the Internet».

The appointment is a great acknowledgement of both Jon Petter Evensen and the photojournalist education at HiOA. Read more about the competition and the juries.

The jury pointed out that Orgeret is actively contributing to the public debate with a media perspective on political, social and cultural aspects of our contemporary society, both nationally and internationally and with special emphasis on a North-South perspective. She continuously contributes to draw attention to how gender is represented in media and thereby to keep the pressure on Norwegian editors to work for a more equal gender representation.

The jury underlined that Orgeret is making significant efforts to put important research issues on the national media agenda, and thus contributes to build bridges between research and the public sphere.

JMIC’s leader Elisabeth Eide was awarded the prize in 2008.

David Kaplan in Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN) and Namrata Sharma in Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) are wishing the participants welcome to Uncovering Asia, the second Asian investigative journalism conference, from 23 to 25 September in Kathmandu in Nepal. Around 350 journalists from 50 countries are present – for more information

The Norhed Network represented by Erik Adrian Eileng, Kristin Skare Orgeret and Helge Rønning participated, together with their partners from Nepal, Uganda and South Sudan, at the opening of the Nepal African Film Festival in Kathmandu on September 7. The Vice President of Nepal, representatives from NORAD as well as the Norwegian ambassador to Nepal were also present at the opening ceremony. During their stay in Kathmandu the Norhed team held their annual meeting with NORAD and a research seminar where two of the project’s PhD candidates also presented their work.

On Tuesday 13 of September, Professor Orgeret gave a 25 minutes live interview on Nepal national television about the Norhed project and the book Journalism in Conflict and Post Conflict Conditions (Nordicom 2016).