Category: News

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

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

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?”