Category: News

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?”

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

We are happy to announce that we have received 200 000 NOK from UNESCO, towards arranging a new conference on the topic of security for journalists. This year the focus will be on self-sensorship due to threaths and violence against journalists. More information, and call for papers will be shortly due.

“The death of these Afghan journalists covering a suicide attack underlines the fact that we need to discard the outdated idea of heroic “foreign” correspondents reporting about distant wars. News from conflict zones – even for international news organizations – is increasingly produced by local journalists, ” writes Saumava Mitra and MEKK-member Marte Høiby in… Continue reading An important read on World Press Freedom Day

Journalism as resistance and source of power was the starting point for a conversation between historians and journalist Hans Fredrik Dahl and MEKK-member, journalist and historian Bjørn Westlie, when they met to discuss the Norwegian press during the Second World War, yesterday at the National Library. In the afternoon of Tuesday, April 9, 1940, less than… Continue reading Norwegian Press during Second World War

In a recent article in Klassekampen, Professor Emeritus, Rune Ottosen questions why the media takes such an uncritical stance towards Norway´s participation in the war in Syria, especially with regards to violation of International Law. Ottosen draws parallels to the war in Afghanistan, where Norway also participated; lives were lost, and millions of dollars spent,… Continue reading Critic of Norwegian Media´s coverage of Syria