Author: kristo

Despite the 2016 peace accord with the FARC, once Latin America’s largest guerrilla group, there are still violent clashes. As late as last week (28 May), Colombian troops killed 11 dissidents of the disbanded FARC guerrilla group. Roy Krøvel’s article from November last year is still highly relevant. Read it here (sorry – in Norwegian!)… Continue reading Embers of Colombia’s 50-year-old conflict are still burning

Marte Høiby joins the IAWRT Board as a deputy member as Kristin Skare Orgeret steps off the Board after two years. Heidi Røsok Dahl continues as a board member. MEKK collaborates with IAWRT on issues of safety of journalists, women in the media and freedom of speech.

Live from Professor Rune Ottosen in Kampala: “The last few days I had the pleasure of teaching master students at Makerere University in Kampala on my favourite subject War and Peace journalism. The students are well informed and interested in the subject. We have interesting discussion. They are engaged and ask me provocative questions. More… Continue reading MEKK’s Prof. Rune Ottosen in Kampala

  Bruce Mutsvairo, editor of the Palgrave Handbook of Media and Communication Research in Africa, opened the ‘Researching Africa’ seminar at Oslo Metropolitan University the 22 February. Vice rector Morten Irgens and Research Director Kristin Sverdrup wished welcome to the seminar, which marked the start of the OsloMet Africa Network. Phd candidate Gerald Walulya from… Continue reading Book launch at “Researching Africa” seminar

Quatrina Hosain (Pakistan), Nil Mutluer (Turkey/ Germany), Elisabeth Eide and Kristin Skare Orgeret (both Norway, JMIC and MEKK) met in Beirut from January 18 to 21, to discuss the forthcoming anthology Media Dialogues: Transnational Journalistic Enounters. The anthology contains contributions from scholars and journalists in the following countries: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Norway, Pakistan,… Continue reading Media Dialogues – Editorial Meeting in Beirut

    In December, Professor Kristin Skare Orgeret conducted a one-week Training of Trainers Security and Equity course in cooperation with NJ (Norsk Journalistlag) and IFJ (International Federation of Journalists), in Dakar, Senegal. The participants were French-speaking women journalists from Mali, Guinée, Burkina Faso, Côté d’Ivoire, Benin, Togo and Senegal. The training focuses on journalists’… Continue reading Training on Equity and Security in West Africa