Oxford grant for 2018 awarded to Ingerid Salvesen

October 25 2017

The Preben Munthe Fellowship Grant at Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford has been awarded to freelance journalist Ingerid Salvesen for the period January–July 2018.

Salvesen (b. 1987) has worked as a foreign correspondent for NTB and as a magazine journalist for the financial daily Dagens Næringsliv. She has written for several of Norway’s largest newspapers and has spent time at the German media house Die Welt. She also helped start the foreign affairs podcast “Du verden!”. Salvesen has a master’s degree from the Centre for Development and the Environment at the University of Oslo.

At the Reuters Institute at Oxford, Ingerid Salvesen will study the media coverage of climatic change. She will make a comparative analysis of how different media houses communicate about climate research and policies, and examine how editorial boards can develop more professional, research-based and interesting climate journalism.

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