Grants for Norwegian Journalism in November 2021

December 13 2021

The Fritt Ord Foundation’s list of allocations has been updated to include grants for Norwegian journalism projects in November 2021.

In November, a total of NOK 665 000 in support was allocated for Norwegian journalism projects. The list of projects that received support includes digital journals, series of articles, themed issues and series of reports.

The Comic Culture Association was awarded NOK 100 000 for the further development of, among other things, podcasts, comic strip reviews, feature articles and the comic strip journal Empirix.

Theatre critic Per Christian Selmer-Andersen got NOK 50 000 for the project “Europe’s new stage”, a series of essays for Aftenposten based on the author’s travels through Europe and describing the climate for freedom of expression in various European countries.

The University of Oslo’s magazine Uniforum received NOK 75 000 in funding for “Academic freedom of expression in a stranglehold in Europe”. The series of articles addresses the situation for academic freedom of expression in Hungary, Poland, Russia, Belarus and Turkey.

See the full list of grants here.