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For UNESCO’s celebration of at the Headquarters of the African Union in Addis Ababa, OsloMet and MEKK were proud hosts of the Academic Conference on Safety of Journalists together with University of Makerere. The Academic Conference was organised in cooperation with UNESCO and the Universities of Sheffield and Malaga. Professor Kristin Skare Orgeret and Dr… Continue reading World Press Freedom Day & the Academic Conference

Today 3rd of May, on the World Press Freedom Day, the Department of Journalism and Media Studies at OsloMet held a seminar discussing the freedom of speech in both a Norwegian and an international context. Professor Rune Ottosen presented the situation for journalists on an international level with increased violence, murder and harassment against journalist.… Continue reading PRESS FREEDOM DAY

The main celebration of World Press Freedom Day 2019 will take place in Addis Ababa, from 1 to 3 May 2019. The event will provide a platform for multiple actors to exchange on current issues, threats and achievements concerning freedom of the press. The overall theme of the event will be the role of media… Continue reading World Press Freedom Day 2019

The Norwegian Foundation for a Free and Investigative Press (SKUP, Stiftelsen for en Kritisk og Undersøkende Presse) held its yearly conference this week-end (29.03-31.03). SKUP is an association established in 1990, dedicated to promoting investigative journalism in Norway. SKUP organizes an annual weekend conference for investigative reporters and editors in Norway. International participants from the… Continue reading SKUP – Investigative Journalism

Vol. 18 / No. 1 of conflict & communication online has appeared and can be downloaded from the internet: http://www.cco.regener-online.de/ The articles presented in this issue of Conflict & Communication Online, were selected from papers written for the annual Safety of Journalists conference organized by the Media, War and Conflict research group (MEKK) at OsloMetropolitan… Continue reading Vol. 18 / No. 1 of conflict & communication online

The Master course Global Journalism: Conflict, Safety and Peace started out on Monday 25th. The course is a part of the Master in Journalism at the OsloMet. During this week and the second week of April there will be daily lectures at the OsloMet. This year students from 11 countries have signed up for the… Continue reading Global Journalism: Conflict, Safety and Peace

Monday 18th of March the 3rd Making Transparency Possible conference – Interdisciplinary dialogues was held at the OsloMet. The conference gather academics, investigative journalists, Tax Directors and others to a dialog of how to make transparency possible. The main focus for this year’s conference was: “Financial Secrecy and the impact of investigative journalism and cross-border… Continue reading To tell the truth, but not all of it

The anthology Making Transparancy Possible: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue is now possible to download: https://press.nordicopenaccess.no/index.php/noasp/catalog/book/64 This book will be of interest to anyone concerned about illicit financial flows, but especially to journalists, journalism students and journalism instructors seeking an understanding of what it takes to reveal the mechanisms behind illicit, global flows of wealth. Volume editor:… Continue reading Making Transparency Possible: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue

“Financial Secrecy and the impact of investigative journalism and cross-border collaboration on the public understanding of illicit financial flows.” – the focus of his year´s conference A team of economists, financial analysts, professors in economics, journalism and communications and international investigative journalists will gather for the 3rd research conference in the series “Making Transparency Possible –… Continue reading MAKING TRANSPARENCY POSSIBLE – INTERDISCIPLINARY DIALOGUES 2019