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International Reporter (IR) joins the Ukraine project

International Reporter (IR) becomes partner in the project ‘Shared Frontlines and Democracy’, which aims to combat desinformation and provide Norwegian newsrooms and journalists with information about Ukraine.

Internasjonal reporter (IR) will be the project’s Norwegian partner, and Chair of the Board Vilde Skorpen Wikan believes the initiative is timely.

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–It is important for Internasjonal reporter to help ensure that journalists gain greater familiarity with issues related to Ukraine, says Wikan.

– Everyone who has worked in a Norwegian news newsroom in recent years knows how much the war and its ripple effects shape everyday life. This is not just about foreign affairs coverage. The situation in Europe and the relationship with Russia have major consequences for Norwegian politics and society

Read more about the project Shared Frontlines and Democracy here.

New Special Issue out:

Special Issue on Representations of Death in Global Journalism edited by Nechama Brodie and Kristin Skare Orgeret

Table of Contents:

Memento Mori: Noticing Death in Global Media by Nechama Brodie and Kristin Skare Orgeret

Missing Bodies, Silent Pages: How Turkish Media Portrays Journalist Murders and Silence by Önder Deniz, Hüseyin Vehbi İmamoğlu and Taybe Topsakal

Celebrity Suicides in China: How Social Media Shapes News Framing by Shiyu (Sharon) Zheng and Shiyi Zhang

Mediation of Gendered Life and Death Within Intersecting Regimes of Patriarchy, Authoritarianism, and Necropolitics by Melike İşleyen and Barış Çoban

Convening Black Sociability Over a Corpse: Obituaries in the Early South African Black Press by Lesley Mofokeng

The 1927 Mapleton Train Disaster, Memorialisation, and the Media’s Role in Narrating the Dead by Laurence Stewart and Thandi Bombi

Ethical Principles in the Portrayal of Death and Suffering: Finnish Photographers Covering the Russia–Ukraine War by Liia-Maria Raippalinna, Suvi Mononen, Markus Mykkänen and Turo Uskali

You Have not Disappeared: Digital Mourning Spaces After a Social Media Celebrity’s Self-Obituary by Chuanlin Ning

Cut-Off Low (DANA) in Valencia: Visual Representation of Death and Grief in Photojournalism by Montse Morcate and Rebeca Pardo

New Project: Shared Frontlines and Democracy: Strengthening Ukraine Expertise and Collaboration in Norwegian Journalism and Education

We are very please to have received funding from HK-Dir to the new project Shared Frontlines and Democracy! Read more about it here.

  • Invitation to Norwegian Journalists: Educational Trip to Ukraine

    Call for Participation

    Educational Trip for Norwegian Journalists to Ukraine | 12–21 May 2026

    Within the framework of the project Shared Frontlines, we invite Norwegian journalists to participate in an educational trip to Ukraine taking place from 12–21 May 2026.

    The program includes:

    • Participation in the international LMF 2026 media conference Lviv Media Forum (held in English) in Lviv
    • A four-day field trip organized around the interests of the participants and in consideration of current security restrictions.

    All expenses related to the travel and stay in Ukraine will be covered by the Shared Frontline project through OsloMet University.  

    The trip is organized in collaboration with our Ukrainian partner, Lviv Media Forum, and our Norwegian partner, International Reporter.

    About the Shared Frontlines Project

    The project is coordinated by Oslo Metropolitan University, Media, War and Conflict research group (MEKK), and financed by the Directorate for Higher Education and Skills (HK-dir), and aim to strengthen cooperation between Norwegian and Ukrainian journalists, provide Norwegians with greater knowledge about Ukraine, and develop tools to expose propaganda and fake news. Through organizing study trips to Ukraine, open seminars based in Norwegian universities and development of digital learning tools, this project will strengthen society’s overall ability to defend the democratic values that unite our communities, while promoting lasting cooperation between journalists and educational institutions in both countries.

    About Lviv Media Forum

    The NGO Lviv Media Forum  strengthens media, institutions, and public figures capable of fostering healthy public dialogue in Ukraine and beyond. Organization’sOur goal is an effective and democratic society united by healthy communication. Lviv Media Forum The organization was founded in 2013 to bring together media professionals from Ukraine and around the world in Lviv for the annual LMF conference. Over the years, it has grown into an ecosystem of people, organizations, and projects that support the media, develop comprehensive solutions for them, and promote the best media practices in Ukraine and globally.

    For further inquiries, please contact:
    Project Coordinator Oleksandra Hrybenko, hrybenko@oslomet.no

    The number of places is limited.


    Apply here: https://nettskjema.no/a/599514

    Deadline: 15 March 2026