The RSF 2018 Press Freedom Index

April 25 2018

Reporters without borders (RSF) and its partners, the Norwegian Press Association and the Fritt Ord Foundation, are pleased to invite you for the unveiling of the RSF 2018 Press Freedom Index.

Wednesday 25 April 2018 – 12:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.. Doors open at 11:45 a.m.

Hosted by the Fritt Ord Foundation Uranienborgveien 2, 0258 Oslo – (entrance from Parkveien)

Opening remarks by Knut Olav Åmås, Executive Director, Fritt Ord Foundation
Moderated by Elin Floberghagen, Secretary General, Norwegian Press Association

With speakers including
Antoine Bernard, Deputy General Director, Reporters Without Borders
Harlem Desir, Representative on Freedom of the Media, OSCE
Erol Onderoglu, Representative in Turkey, Reporters without Borders

RSVP before Friday, April 20

CONFIRM

Press contact :
Emilie Boulay / eboulay@rsf.org / +33 (0)6 77 92 16 77

About Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders is the largest press freedom organization in the world with more than 30 years of experience. Thanks to its unique global network of 150 local correspondents investigating in 130 countries, 11 national offices (Austria, Brazil, Finland, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taïwan, Tunisia, UK, USA) and a consultative status at the United Nations and UNESCO, Reporters Without Borders is able to have a global impact by gathering and providing on the ground intelligence, and defending and assisting news providers all around the world.

About The Norwegian Press Association
The Norwegian Press Association (Norsk Presseforbund) is an organization for free media and editors, journalists and publishers. Our members are Norwegian newspapers, magazines, online media, radio and TV-stations. Our main task is to work for press freedom and independence, a joint code of ethics, and an open and transparent society.

About The Fritt Ord Foundation
The Fritt Ord Foundation is a private non-profit foundation working to protect and promote freedom of expression and the environment for freedom of expression in Norway and internationally, particularly by encouraging lively debate and the dauntless use of the free word. The Foundation also supports other aspect of arts and culture.

About the OSCE
The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media has the mandate to monitor media freedom issues in the 57 states of the OSCE, to alert governments on difficulties and to offer them assistance. Harlem Désir has been appointed in July 2017.

News

Call for nominations: Free Media Awards 2025

March 14 2025

In collaboration with the ZEIT STIFTUNG BUCERIUS of Hamburg, the Fritt Ord Foundation has allocated the Free Media Awards annually since 2004 to Eastern European journalists and media that defy every obstacle to tirelessly ensure independent press coverage. Russia’s war against Ukraine and the subsequent wave of disinformation clearly demonstrates the need for independent reporting in the region. Journalist, editorial teams and media companies in and from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Russia, Ukraine and Hungary who make a contribution to press freedom through their investigative, independent reporting can be nominated for the Free Media Awards.

Civitates' Tech & Democracy open call

March 6 2025

Civitates – The European Democracy Fund is a pooled philanthropic fund that was set up in 2018 for the sole purpose of addressing democratic decline and closing civic space in Europe. The case for confronting these threats is growing increasingly urgent. Fritt Ord Foundation is one of the initiators and partners of Civitates.

Civitates has launched its Tech and Democracy open call to support organisations working to ensure safer, more inclusive online spaces (social media platforms, search engines etc.) by improving the enforcement of EU tech regulations at the national level.

This open call offers a unique opportunity to strengthen civil society’s role in holding the tech sector accountable, with a focus on key EU regulations such as the Digital Services Act, GDPR, AI Act or the European Media Freedom Act to name a few.

Norwegians increasingly more positive to computer games

March 5 2025

Norwegians are increasingly more positive to accepting computer games as culture

About 17 per cent have developed a more favourable view of computer games over the past year. Six of ten play computer games, and one of three plays computer games weekly. At the same time, computer games are ranked as having lower status than books and music, for example.
“Computer games deserve more attention and discussion”, contends Joakim Lie of Fritt Ord.

– Computer games are also art

March 4 2025

“The problem with far too many media reports about computer games is that they start begin with sentences like: ‘computer games have come a long way since Pac-Man’,” sighs American computer game critic Jacob Geller.

“Let us first simply agree that computer games are indeed an art form and an expression of culture, and then let us examine the works as part of the history of art and culture.