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Raghu Rai - An Unframed Portrait: Screening and Conversation

November 1 2018

The Fritt Ord Foundation, Piraya Film and Norwegian Journal of Photography invite the public to a unique screening of Raghu Rai – An Unframed Portrait, and a conversation between the photographer Raghu Rai, director Avani Rai and VII photographer Linda Bournane Engelberth.

Fritt Ords Honnør tildelt Odd Isungset

October 31 2018

Fritt Ord Foundation Oxford grant for 2019 awarded to Thea Storøy Elnan

October 24 2018

At the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Thea Storøy Elnan will be investigating whether the #metoo campaign has changed the way in which journalists in Norway, Sweden and the UK write about sexual harassment and the victims of abuse. What consequences has the #metoo campaign had on press ethics? How professional are the media in their coverage of incidents of sexual harassment and, in the wake of the campaign, how aware are journalists of the real price people pay when they come forward and talk about such experiences?

Odd Isungset receives Freedom of Expression Foundation Tribute

October 22 2018

PRESS RELEASE
Oslo, 23 October 2018

Leaving extremism behind - film screening and conversation

October 16 2018

Sant og Usant, Fritt Ord, Oslo Documentary Cinema, the Consortium for Research on Terrorism and International Crime and the Centre for Research on Extremism (C-REX) invite the public to a screening of the documentary film Exit, followed by a discussion. Meet former left- and right-wing extremists and members of Jihadist movements from Germany, Denmark and France for a discussion after the film.

Reconstructing Utøya – Oslo première and discussion with youth politicians and cast members

October 11 2018

Thursday, 6.30 p.m. on 11 October at Saga Cinema Tickets will be available for NOK 120 at the Nordic Film Cinema.

Reconstructing Utøya – Oslo première and discussion with youth politicians and cast members

October 11 2018

Thursday, 6.30 p.m. on 11 October at Saga Cinema Tickets will be available for NOK 120 at the Nordic Film Cinema.

Free Media Awards 2018 - Conference in Yerevan

October 2 2018

The 2018 Free Media Awards will be bestowed at the Free Media Awards conference in Yerevan, Armenia under the auspices of Fritt Ord and ZEIT-Stiftung, on Tuesday 2 October 2018.

Free Media Awards 2018 - Conference in Yerevan

October 2 2018

The 2018 Free Media Awards will be bestowed at the Free Media Awards conference in Yerevan, Armenia under the auspices of Fritt Ord and ZEIT-Stiftung, on Tuesday 2 October 2018.

The Fritt Ord Foundation's climate grant

October 1 2018

​Are you planning to write a master’s thesis on the relationship between §112 of the Constitution of Norway and climate change?

Free Media Awards 2018

October 1 2018

The 2018 Free Media Awards are awarded to Chai Khana in South-Caucasus for their efforts to bring attention to under-reported news stories spanning national borders in the region, Fontanka in Russia for their coverage of ongoing and forgotten conflicts, and to the Belarusian website Belarus Partisan for their tireless investigative work, also following the murder of their editor-in-chief in 2016.

Financial consultancy services - invitation to tender

September 28 2018

The Fritt Ord Foundation invites independent consultancy and investment companies to submit tenders for financial consultancy and related services for a three- to five-year period from 1 July 2019.

Earmarked funding for Norwegian journalism

September 21 2018

The Fritt Ord Foundation is allocating up to MNOK 25 annually for four years for journalistic projects. The MNOK 100 initiative is entitled Norwegian Journalism.

Cartoons between the political and the personal

September 20 2018

The Fritt Ord Foundation Competition for Upper Secondary Schools launched this year’s topic, “Drawing as a form of expression”, with an event at the Chapter Festival in Stavanger, at 6 p.m. on Thursday, 20 September.

Cartoons between the political and the personal

September 20 2018

The Fritt Ord Foundation Competition for Upper Secondary Schools launched this year’s topic, “Drawing as a form of expression”, with an event at the Chapter Festival in Stavanger, at 6 p.m. on Thursday, 20 September.

Call for Applications: The Fritt Ord Journalism Fellowship – In Honour of Preben Munthe

September 17 2018

The Fritt Ord Foundation funds 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 2019.