Fritt Ord Journalism Fellowship for 2021 awarded to Tor Kjetil Kristoffersen

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October 14 2020

“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.

During his stay, Kristoffersen will be studying how the Sámi are presented in Norwegian media compared with how indigenous peoples in Canada (“First Nations”, Inuits and Métis) are presented in Canadian media.

“Read more about the Fellowship here. ":/en/projects/media-and-journalism/the-fritt-ord-journalism-fellowship-2020

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