Doctor in safety

 

Marte Høiby Friday 13 December 2019

Marte Høiby defended her thesis  “JOURNALISM UNDER PRESSURE – A cross-national study of antipress violence and journalist safety” at OsloMet 13 December. Read More

#KeepTruthAlive

Guy Berger at OsloMet last week

UNESCOs new report Intensified Attacks, New Defences Developments in the Fight to Protect Journalists and End Impunity was presented at Oslo last week under the headline  #KeepTruthAlive   Read More

The Third Launch!

PHOTO (From left:) Bora Ataman, Baris Coban, Abeer Saady, Elisabeth Eide, Kristin Skare Orgeret, Mubashar Hasan, Afshin Ismaeli and Atta Ansari

The anthology “Transnational Othering – Global Diversities” was launched for the third time at OsloMet, during the 5th journalist safety conference organized by the MEKK research group in co-operation with UNESCO, Free Expression Foundation, JMIC and the Digital media research group.

At the launch, several chapter contributors as well as two of the three editors participated, and made short presentations of their own work.

 

 

Another launch!

Elisabeth Eide and Abdul Mujeeb Khalvatgar

“Transnational Othering – Global Diversities” was launched in Kabul 4th November, hosted by Nai Supporting Open Media in Afghanistan. Read More

Book launched in Indonesia

Photo (from left): Ade Armando, Nina Mutmainnah, Apriline Widani from the Norwegian Embassy in Jakarta, Lestari Nurhajati, Elisabeth Eide, Abeer Saady, Andina Dwifatma and Ming-Kuok LIM from UNESCO in Jakarta.

The anthology «Transnational Othering – Global Diversities» had its first launch in Depok, a city just outside Jakarta, Indonesia on 30th November, at Universitas Indonesia, the largest university in the country.

This was part of a three day event, including a two day workshop on teaching gender in journalism and media studies.  Read More

NEW ANTHOLOGY PUBLISHED

NEW BOOK OUT! 

 

A new anthology has just been published by Nordicom:

Transnational Othering – Global Diversities, Media, Extremism and Free Expression This is an open access book, which can be downloaded here:

https://www.nordicom.gu.se/sv/publikationer/transnational-othering-global-diversities  

The book is the result of cooperation across many borders during the last three years, with contributions from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Norway, PakistanTunisia, and Turkey. Contributors include both academics and journalists. The anthology is divided into three parts:

  • PART ONE: Extremism and the media: Shifting sands
  • PART TWO: Freedom of expression and new challenges
  • PART THREE: The changing shades of global diversities

Editors: Elisabeth Eide (OsloMet), Kristin Skare Orgeret (OsloMet) and Nil Mutluer, Humboldt University, Berlin.

Safety Training in Lahore

In collaboration with Forman Christian College (A Chartered University) JMIC has conducted a safety training course for appr. 30 journalists, headed by our experienced lead trainer Abeer Saady, assisted by Atta Ansari, board member of JMIC and professor Altaf Khan at FC College. Evaluations were very good, praising the course leadership for dynamic and inspirational course conduction.