Category: News

The MEKK group salute all women and especially female journalists and researchers today. The 8th of March is the International Women’s Day and MEKK-member Kristin Skare Orgeret celebrates the day together with the freelance journalist Marte Vike Arnesen, with the launch of a #metoo poster. We have made the #metoo poster so that we will… Continue reading International Women’s Day

Monday 4th of March the MEKK group invited five presenters to an inspirational seminar. The idea is to share both academic research and journalistic work and together discuss project possibilities, journalistic experiences, conflict and freedom expression and on what platforms we can use to share research like film, radio and exhibitions. Samson Tewolde, journalist from… Continue reading MEKK Inspirational seminar

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 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

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