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Propaganda - Seminar for lærere i videregående skole
Democracy Road? - Aung San Suu Kyi, buddhistisk nasjonalisme og pressefrihet i Myanmar
Inequality, Immigration, and the Politics of Populism
The New York Review of Books Foundation, the Dan David Prize and the Fritt Ord Foundation invite the public to the two-day conference ‘Inequality, Immigration, and the Politics of Populism’. The conference will take place at the New York University School of Law, USA, 28-29 October 2017.
Oxford grant for 2018 awarded to Ingerid Salvesen
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.
RISK - The Story of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange
Fritt Ord and Oslo Documentary Cinema invite the public to a screening of Risk followed by a debate on Wednesday, 18 October 2017, at 6 p.m. at Cinemateket.
The Rise and Fall of Fake News
The Fritt Ord Foundation and The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters invite the public to a conversation about fake news, fact-checking and public trust, on Tuesday 17 October 2017, 5 p.m., at Uranienborgveien 2.
In 2016, Oxford Dictionaries declared post-truth its international word of the year, and defined it as the state of affairs when “objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” PolitiFact named fake news its 2016 “Lie of the Year”. Since then, the term has lost much of its initial meaning and content in the public debate.
Stipend for studenter ved Nord Universitet og Institutt for sammenlignende politikk, UiB
Fritt Ords og ZEIT-Stiftungs «Free Media Awards» deles ut i Kiev
Fritt Ord acquires Wergelandsveien 29
This past summer, it was announced that the Fritt Ord Foundation would be buying Wergelandsveien 29 in Oslo, the building in which the House of Literature Foundation has its activities. The seller was Entra, which has owned the building since the beginning.
Søknadsfrist på Fritt Ords studentstipend
Call for Applications: Cross Border Journalism Programme, Autumn 2017
We warmly invite journalists from Russia, Central Asia, Eastern Europe, the Baltic or the Caucasus to work together to produce stories through partnership and collaboration that transcend their national border as a part of the Perspektivy programme (Программа “Перспективы”). Perspektivy is a joint initiative by the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the Robert Bosch Stiftung and the Fritt Ord Foundation.
Call for Applications: Cross Border Journalism Programme, Autumn 2017
We warmly invite journalists from Russia, Central Asia, Eastern Europe, the Baltic or the Caucasus to work together to produce stories through partnership and collaboration that transcend their national border as a part of the Perspektivy programme (Программа “Перспективы”). Perspektivy is a joint initiative by the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the Robert Bosch Stiftung and the Fritt Ord Foundation.
Utlysning: FutureLab Europe 2018
Music, propaganda and resistance
In collaboration with Chapter: the Stavanger International Festival for Literature and Freedom of Expression, we invite the public to “Demo: Music, propaganda and resistance” on Friday, 22 September 2017, at 10.00 a.m. and 12.00 p.m. at the Sølvberget Library and House of Literature. The conversation is part of this year’s festival programme. The artist Morten Traavik, the musician Moddi and the Slovenian band Laibach will be participating. The moderator is journalist and musician Guttorm Arndreassen.
Music, propaganda and resistance
In collaboration with Chapter: the Stavanger International Festival for Literature and Freedom of Expression, we invite the public to “Demo: Music, propaganda and resistance” on Friday, 22 September 2017, at 10.00 a.m. and 12.00 p.m. at the Sølvberget Library and House of Literature. The conversation is part of this year’s festival programme. The artist Morten Traavik, the musician Moddi and the Slovenian band Laibach will be participating. The moderator is journalist and musician Guttorm Arndreassen.