Remembering Berge Furre
Freedom of Expression Foundation Prize laureate Berge Furre passed away on Tuesday, 12 January 2016, at the age of 78.
News
Extra funds for journalism in 2016
The Fritt Ord Foundation invites applications for the programme ‘Quality Journalism in a New Era’. Up to 10 MNOK will be awarded annually in 2016 and 2017.
The Fritt Ord Foundation allocates an additional MNOK 30 to journalism
Press Release, 3 November 2014
Refuge from Reality – An Essay on Digital Life
With the project Digital Life, the Fritt Ord Foundation has invited the public to a debate on the place of computer games in culture and society. In addition to a series of events in the winter 2015/2016, the project includes of an essay competition with a deadline for entries on Friday, 15 April.
Digital life - What is so special about gaming?
Computer games are widely varied cultural expressions that thematise everything from political ideology to the meaning of life. However, in the major debates taking place about computer games, where is the Norwegian public? What is the status of Norwegian gaming journalism?
Good Pitch Europe returns to the Nordic countries
BRITDOC, supported by the Fritt Ord Foundation and other Nordic partners, brought Good Pitch Europe to Oslo on March 25th 2015. In May 2016 Good Pitch Europe is coming to Stockholm, Sweden. Call for Entries is now open.
Dansken, svensken og nordmannen - nordmannen om næringsliv
Dansken, svensken og nordmannen - svensken om politikk
Dansken, svensken og nordmannen - dansken om kultur
The Dane, the Swede and the Norwegian - three lectures on public discourse in Scandinavia
The Fritt Ord Foundation invites the public to three lectures on public information in Scandinavia. The lectures will be delivered in the month of November at Uranienborgveien 2, Oslo.
Enemy Kitchen, performance lunch in collaboration with Henie Onstad Kunstsenter
The seminar Looters, Smugglers and Collectors: Provenance Research and the Art Market will be held on 29 and 30 October in connection with the exhibition In Search of Matisse at the Henie Onstad Art Centre. The exhibition brings to the fore the plundering of cultural heritages and works of art.
What kind of future do we want?
The Norwegian Polytechnic Society and the Fritt Ord Foundation invite the public to two open meetings about nanotechnology at the House of Literature in Oslo. The meetings will be held on two Tuesdays, 6 and 20 October 2015, from 7 to 9 p.m. Please register at www.polyteknisk.no.
But censorship was not dead… Seminar for teachers, 13 October
The Fritt Ord Foundation and the National Association for Norwegian Teaching (LNU) welcome participants to a seminar on censorship and text generation in the classroom on Tuesday, 13 October, from 9.30 a.m. to 3.30 p.m., at Fritt Ord’s premises at Uranienborgveien 2 in Oslo. There will be lectures and time will be set aside for discussions and group work.
PHOTOGRAPHS LIE, PHOTOGRAPHERS DON’T
Fritt Ord and Norwegian Journal of Photography (NJP) invite the public to the seminar Photographs Lie, Photographers Don’t, with Donald Weber. The seminar will take place on Friday 9 October 2015 at 5 p.m. (from 5.00–6.30 p.m.) at the Fritt Ord Foundation, Uranienborgveien 2, Oslo.
Flemming Rose and Vebjørn Selbekk honoured with the Freedom of Expression Foundation Tribute
On Tuesday, 22 September, Flemming Rose and Vebjørn Selbekk were awarded the Freedom of Expression Foundation Tribute. The two newspaper editors were honoured for their firm defence of freedom of expression throughout 10 years of caricature controversy.
Norwegian journalist to Oxford: The Preben Munthe Fellowship
The Fritt Ord Foundation sponsors half a year of study and research in Oxford for a Norwegian journalist. The fellowship will be given to a journalist ordinarily resident in Norway. The fellow will spend six months at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University, commencing January 2016.