“Tunisian Girl” Lina ben Mhenni passed away

on 7. February 2020

Lina ben Mhenni, globally known as blogger “Tunisian Girl” before, during and after the Tunisian revolution in 2011, passed away last week, only 36 years old. She visited Norway and JMIC’s predecessor for a conference in 2013, and we also met her in Tunisia.  She showed immense courage and inspired people from all generations in her home country. In an obituary published by Electronic Frontier Foundation, she is quoted characterizing digital activism: as “an efficient tool against censorship and dictatorship”, but she still believed that “action in the digital world must be combined with actions in the real world” (Jillian C. York, 27 Jan 2020).

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Safety training in Addis Ababa 

on 3. February 2020

Participants from four countries came for the training (Photo: Rebecca Tadesse Hunde)

JMIC conducted a safety training for journalists in Addis Ababa last week, in collaboration with Addis Ababa University and NLA University College. Read More

Teaching War and Peace Journalism

on 22. January 2020

How to teach War and Peace journalism: professional challenges when encountering propaganda and fake news. 

In the last issue of the journal JOURNALISM EDUCATION (2019; 8:2), Elisabeth Eide and Rune Ottosen have published an article drawing on their extensive experience in teaching an MA course in war and peace journalism with students from a wide range of countries.

Preparing for fieldwork

on 17. January 2020

Abeer Saady teaching the students how to protect each other (Photo: Nima Taheri)

JMIC safety trainer Abeer Saady held a one day safety workshop in Oslo this week. Read More

Women winners of awards

on 19. December 2019

Hind Mafadhel together with Hamida El Bour and Karim Belhadj Aissa and Paddy Clouther in ARTICLE 19 (to the left).

The journalists Hind Mafadhel and Sameh Gharsallah received the awards of the ‘Investigative Journalism and Access to Information (ATI) Regional Training’ project in North Africa last week.  Read More

Doctor in safety

on 16. December 2019

 

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

UNESCO reports presented in Asia, Africa and the Arab region

on 6. December 2019

The participants at a conference on teaching gender in journalism and media studies in Indonesia in October, where also UNESCO´s work on gender was presented. (Photo: Satri Nugroho, Universitas Indonesia)

Journalism & Media International Center (JMIC) at OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University in Norway has cooperated with UNESCO about the presentation of four reports in seven cities around the world this autumn. Read More