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MEKK member Ingrid Fadnes will participate in a panel debate on the current crisis in Venezuela Thursday 28th of January at the University in Oslo. The Latin American groups at Blindern (LAG Blindern) and Machiavelli (the society for events at political science) invites to a lecture and a panel discussion with the purpose of understanding… Continue reading Media coverage of the crisis in Venezuela

MEKK-member, Anna M. Grøndahl Larsen successfully defended her thesis: Reporting extremism and the threat of terrorism in the digital age: News journalism and the boundaries of inclusion and representation, on Friday the 16th of November. Anna based her dissertation on in-depth interviews with editors and journalists in Norway and analyses of news texts published in… Continue reading Anna G. Larsen defended PhD thesis on “reporting extremism”

                                                                                                             … Continue reading Chilling facts, yet a note of optimism at MEKK conference, 2018

            A diverse and engaged audience participated at the 10th conference of the Nordic Latin American Research Network, the 25th and 26th of October at MET University in Oslo. Some of the questions that were raised and discussed at the conference were: How are social movements and cultural expressions reacting… Continue reading Epochal shifts in current Latin America?

The conference will take place in Oslo on the 5th and 6th of November 2018, in connection with UNESCO’s International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists at Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway. Read the full programme. Read who will speak, and contribute papers at the conference. Overview of participants. Most abuses against media professionals… Continue reading Welcome to the Conference on Safety of Journalists – the chilling effects, 2018

Head of MEKK, professor Roy Krøvel will discuss the escalating situation in Nicaragua in a panel with other experts on Nicaragua; Mariel Aguilar-Støen, Elin Cecilie Ranum and faciliator Benecticte Bull firstcoming Friday, June the 8th, from 6 to 7:30 PM, room: Laboratoriet, 3rd. floor, Youngs gate 6, Oslo. The event is initiated by Norwegian Latin America Research Network… Continue reading “Nicaragua: The beginning or the end of a revolution?”

We are happy to announce that we have received 200 000 NOK from UNESCO, towards arranging a new conference on the topic of security for journalists. This year the focus will be on self-sensorship due to threaths and violence against journalists. More information, and call for papers will be shortly due.

“The death of these Afghan journalists covering a suicide attack underlines the fact that we need to discard the outdated idea of heroic “foreign” correspondents reporting about distant wars. News from conflict zones – even for international news organizations – is increasingly produced by local journalists, ” writes Saumava Mitra and MEKK-member Marte Høiby in… Continue reading An important read on World Press Freedom Day

Journalism as resistance and source of power was the starting point for a conversation between historians and journalist Hans Fredrik Dahl and MEKK-member, journalist and historian Bjørn Westlie, when they met to discuss the Norwegian press during the Second World War, yesterday at the National Library. In the afternoon of Tuesday, April 9, 1940, less than… Continue reading Norwegian Press during Second World War

In a recent article in Klassekampen, Professor Emeritus, Rune Ottosen questions why the media takes such an uncritical stance towards Norway´s participation in the war in Syria, especially with regards to violation of International Law. Ottosen draws parallels to the war in Afghanistan, where Norway also participated; lives were lost, and millions of dollars spent,… Continue reading Critic of Norwegian Media´s coverage of Syria