{"id":3021,"date":"2021-06-14T15:28:09","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T13:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogg.hivolda.no\/jr\/?p=3021"},"modified":"2021-06-14T15:29:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T13:29:10","slug":"graduation-ceremony-for-master-in-media-practices-2021-extended-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogg.hivolda.no\/jr\/2021\/06\/14\/graduation-ceremony-for-master-in-media-practices-2021-extended-version\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduation ceremony for Master in Media practices 2021 (extended version)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This speech was presented by the graduation ceremony for new Masters in media practices<\/a> by the Media department, Volda University College, June 11th, 2021. This is an extended version as time did not give room for all I wanted to say!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Happy graduates from Master in Media Practices. From left: Eirik Aarseth, Franziska Schminke, Andrea Schr\u00f8der Karlsen and Nini Bakke Kristiansen. Photo: Julie Wiken Krogstadmo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

China, Russia, Brazil. Afghanistan, Syria. Myanmar and Jemen. Countries ruled by authoritarian powers, war-torn. These kind of countries are to be find of the bottom of indexes of freedom of press.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the last few years Norway has been at the other end of the spectrum, together with our Nordic neighbours Finland, Sweden and Denmark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is not something to brag about, but more so something that gives us a kind of responsibility. But we also need to remember that freedom of press is hard-won and takes time. In Norway we consider the year of 1814 as the point in our national history which freedom of print was secured by law. From the starting-point in 1814 the next century saw a development of spreading and securing the idea of freedom of press. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We may think this is a one way road. From authoritarian rule to liberal freedom. But our complicated world of today unfortunately tells a different story. Maybe are we going backwards?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Journalists and media workers have the recent years been killed in countries such as Slovakia, Malta, United Kingdom and France. We see authoritorian rule being reintroduced in countries like Poland and Hungary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The case of the pandemic highlights in very different and disturbing ways these processes: <\/p>\n\n\n\n