Prize to Syrian journalist

Lina Chawaf when she visted OsloMet in February this year

Lina Chawaf, Executive Director of Rozana Radio, will receive the Swedish Reporters without Borders’ press freedom award 2018.

The prize is a recognition of her struggle to defend the freedom of the press, according to the webpage of Rozana Radio

She will receive the award at a ceremony to be held in Stockholm on May 3, the World Press Freedom day.

New Master on the way

Department of Journalism and Media Studies will start the development of a joint international master program in photojournalism. Read More

Norway ahead

Norway on the top of the press freedom ranking this year. Antoine Bernard presented the report.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) unveiled their Press Freedom Index in Oslo Wednesday.

Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands topped the ranking of 180 countries – at the bottom were North Korea, Eritrea and Turkmenistan.  Read More

Egyptian photographer 1 Prize

Heba Khamis was interviewed by Daphné Anglés (Photo: Jon Petter Evensen)

The Egyptian photographer Heba Khamis won first prize in the Contemporary Issues Stories in the 2018 World Press Photo Contest in Amsterdam last week.

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Visualizing China

 

The Chinese/Bangladeshi/Nepali/Norwegian group of photo journalists and their teachers (Photo: Jiang Yao)

23 photojournalism students from China, Bangladesh, Nepal and Norway have just finished a seven week international documentary course in China.

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Visit from Ukraine

Vladislav Hruzynsky, Ellie Haworth, Dima Khilchenko and Gro Holm (to the right) (Photo: Jon Petter Evensen)

JMIC staff Jon Petter Evensen received two colleagues from Ukraine, News Editor Vladislav Hruzynsky and Digital Editor Dima Khilchenko last week.   Read More

UNESCO report launched in Africa

Lydia Gachungi at the UNESCO Regional Office for Eastern Africa presented the World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development Global Report in Uganda 14 March. Read More

First NORHED PhD

Gerald Walulya in Oslo for his PhD

Gerald Walulya defended his thesis “Hybrid Journalism? An Investigation into Press Coverage of Elections in East Africa’s One-party Dominant States of Tanzania and Uganda” 7 March at the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Oslo. He was the the first NORHED PhD-student to do so.

Walulya is Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Journalism & Communication at Makerere University in Kampala in Uganda. He was the local coordinator for a course in safety for journalists students organized by JMIC last year (more information)