Grants in response to applications for more than NOK 100 000 awarded in October 2020
The Fritt Ord Foundation’s list of grants has been updated, adding grants in response to ordinary project applications for more than NOK 100 000, Norwegian Journalism and additional grants in September 2020.
Several allocations have been made to international projects in this round. PEN American Center has received NOK 300 000 for the project “Free Speech & Hateful Speech in Higher Education”, which is intended to result in a book and an online publication. The London-based freedom of expression organisation Article 19 was granted NOK 500 000 for its work in the upcoming year, under the heading “The Expression Agenda: a robust response”. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, represented by the University of Oxford, received NOK 960 000 for its annual Digital News Report for 2021–2023. The report analyses the media situations and media habits in about 40 countries, including Norway.
