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Roy Krøvel and Kristin Skare Orgeret from MEKK in collaboration with Arnfinn Nygaard and the RORG-network organised a digital seminar on Journalism and the SDGs in Norway Friday 8 January A report on the journalistic coverage of the SDGs was launched and a panel of journalists and NGO workers, Hildegunn Marie Tønnessen Seip, Ingrid Fadnes,… Continue reading Diplomas for good journalism on the Sustainable Development Goals –  SDGs

As part of the World Press Freedom Conference 2020 (9-10 December), the Academic Conference on Safety will bring together researchers from different disciplines working on issues related to the safety of journalists, such as safety of journalists in challenging environments, safety of female journalists, and local politics and safety of journalists. It will take on an innovative format, allowing… Continue reading Academic Conference on Safety

MEKK participates in the organisation of the academic conference on the safety of journalists as part of the World Press Freedom Day’s Global Conference in Addis Ababa 1-3 May 2019. The academic conference will allow researchers from different disciplines to share and discuss recent research on safety of journalists. This will be the fourth edition of… Continue reading Global Conference World Press Freedom Day – Safety of Journalists

From May 1st, 2019 until December 31st, 2019, eight journalists from war zones and crisis areas will be invited to Berlin for a period of four months each. During their stay in Berlin they can enjoy a break and complete a comprehensive training program in digital security issues relevant to their work. https://www.reporter-ohne-grenzen.de/hilfe-schutz/stipendien/berliner-stipendienprogramm/?fbclid=IwAR2h0cy-RND7GH8B6_DtYGJQ4UUywI4OyK7_vZkg4EvrEWSxtoKoDoAL3-Y

Time Magazine’s Person of the Year is  “The Guardians,” a group of journalists who have been targeted for their work in “the pursuit for greater truths”. One of them is photographer Shahidul Alam, our colleague to whom we dedicated this year’s MEKK Safety for Journalists conference in Oslo, 5th of November. Shahidul was beaten, detained by state… Continue reading Shahidul Alam – Time Magazine’s Person of the Year

Kristin Skare Orgeret is chief trainer of a five days intensive Training of Trainers course in Safety and Gender Equality for journalists in Tunis, Tunisia organized by IFJ and NJ. The course was in French and Arabic with enthusiastic participants from Algeria, Egypt, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia.

MEKK member Bjørn Westile will defend his PhD thesis at the Department of Archeology, Conservation and History on Friday. The topic of his thesis is Norges Statsbaner (Norwegian State Railways) and the prisoners of war during World War II. The defense will take place on Friday 28. September 2018 at 12:30 in, Gamle festsal, Domus… Continue reading Bjørn Westlie to defend his PhD

Why have Norwegian media shown so little interest in the principal aspects of the Norwegian military presence in Syria? MEKK member Prof. Rune Ottosen and student Ida Bing ask the question in today’s Norwegian daily Dagsavisen, where they criticize Norwegian media for not asking more critical questions about why we lack knowledge of what the… Continue reading The Syrian war – why so silent?

Our Norhed candidate Samiksha Koirala defends her doctoral dissertation for the degree of PhD on Friday 17th of August at the University of Oslo. The title of her thesis is Gender Representations in the Nepali Press during Pre-Conflict, Conflict and Post-Conflict Periods : Examining gender coverage in Nepali newspapers of 1994-2014 The examining committee is… Continue reading Samiksha Koirala to defend her doctoral dissertation