The Fritt Ord Foundation’s list of grants has been updated to include grants for ordinary project applications for less than NOK 100 000, Norwegian Journalism and additional grants in November 2020.
PRESS RELEASE 9 November 2020
The 2020 Fritt Ord Foundation Prize is awarded to Deeyah Khan for her intrepid, methodical and innovative documentary films on extremism.
A media analysis of racism in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement.
The Fritt Ord Foundation congratulates Terje Abusdal and Gösta Flemming on winning Grafill’s distinction ‘The Year’s Most Beautiful Book’.
A media analysis of racism in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Today, 2 November, marks the International Day to end Impunity for Crimes against Journalists.
In commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on 22 July 2011, Fritt Ord and Foreningen !les are working together to make a free anthology featuring excerpts from books about 22 July.
Erika Fatland’s book “High. A travelogue from the Himalayas” has been nominated in the category ‘factual prose’.
This past spring, Fritt Ord invited applications for grants of NOK 60 000 each for debates and discussions based on non-fiction and fiction literature on economics. The Foundation received 73 applications, and decided to award funding to 38 applicants.
Fritt Ord, NF Kino, Youth Strike for Climate, YMCA/YWCA, Spire, Nature and Youth, Changemaker, Eco-Agents, Differ Media and Tour de Force invites the public to a preview screening of the documentary film on Greta Thunberg.
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.
PRESS RELEASE
Oslo, 23 October 2020
The Fritt Ord Foundation has engaged Hilde Gunn Slottemo (52), a professor of History, to pen the history of the Foundation’s first 50 years.
The Fritt Ord Foundation’s list of allocations has been updated to include grants in response to ordinary project applications for less than NOK 100 000, Norwegian Journalism and additional grants in September 2020.
The Fritt Ord Foundation’s project “Islam in Norway” hosted an open panel discussion at the House of Literature on Tuesday 20 October 2020. The event was also streamed live.
Fritt Ord, Isme Film and Oslo Documentary Cinema hosted the Oslo premiere of the documentary film “The Art of Fallism” and a subsequent discussion about decolonisation in a Norwegian context, on Monday 19 October 2020, at Vega Scene, Oslo.
“The Fritt Ord Journalism Fellowship” at Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford for the period January – July 2021 has been awarded to Tor Kjetil Kristoffersen, news editor at Finnmark Dagblad.