[Commlist] Call for Papers: The annual Safety of Journalists Conference

*Call for Papers: The annual Safety of Journalists Conference*

*November 1–2 2022 at OsloMet University*

*Solidarity and self-learning for improved? safety for journalists*

In recent years interest in issues related to journalists’ safety has 
increased remarkably.

The topic has also received more attention in the broader public, not 
least due to the 2021

Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to courageous journalists Maria Ressa 
from the Philippines and Dimitrij Muratov from Russia.

Simultaneously, statistics show how increasingly more journalists are 
being arrested and imprisoned internationally and both the Covid 
pandemic as well as the ongoing war in Ukraine has shown how press 
freedom is confronted and how journalists find themselves being attacked 
for the job they do.

One of the most dangerous things journalists can do is to cover 
conflict, abuse of power and corruption in their own country.

We in the research group MEKK believe that the time has come to shed 
light on what journalists, newsrooms and journalist organizations 
themselves do and can do to improve the safety of journalists. This is 
why we have chosen Solidarity and self-learning for increased safety of 
journalists as the theme for this year’s conference.

Following the assassination of Maltese investigative journalist Daphne 
Caruna Galizia in 2017, 45 journalists from 18 news organizations 
participated in completing investigations that Caruna had started before 
she was killed. Forbidden Stories coordinated this work. Both IRE and 
Forbidden Stories have since grown to become important organizations 
that lay the foundations for both investigative journalism in general 
and safety of journalists in particular. Forbidden Stories have won 
several awards for its work on the discovery of Pegasus spyware used to 
monitor journalists and human right defenders around the world.

There are an increasing number of such cooperation that have emerged 
between journalists and media professionals, organizations and 
journalism schools internationally.

Some of these experiences are documented in various forms, but so far, 
few systematic studies have been made of these initiatives and projects. 
We find it important to undertake methodological investigations of such 
projects in order to know more about their content and quality and about 
what can work in different contexts. It is also important to lay the 
foundation for sharing experiences between different countries, regions 
and organizations.

The purpose of the conference is to produce knowledge about measures 
that can improve the situation for journalists and journalism. This can 
be linked both to what journalists can do to protect themselves, both 
individually and in groups, and to collective and structural measures to 
protect journalists and to end impunity for violence against them.

The conference is also open for papers on more general safety issues for 
journalists and media professionals.

*We call for papers on topics such as (but not limited to)*

  * Killing the journalist will not kill the story, studies on
    journalistic collaborations
  * The issue of safety and experiences from broad journalist
    cooperation projects
  * Approaching safety measures collectively
  * The safety of journalists in authoritarian “democracies”.
  * Effects of campaigns and other actions to improve the safety of
    journalists
  * Teaching safety in journalism educations
*

If you want to participate with a paper, an abstract of maximum 250 
words and a short bio should be uploaded to 
https://nettskjema.no/a/266321 <https://nettskjema.no/a/266321>   before 
August 15, 2022. Please include your full name, institutional 
affiliation and email. There is no registration fee, and the 
participants are expected to cover their own costs for travel and 
accommodation.

A limited number of scholarships to cover flight and/ or accommodation 
is available for PhD students and researchers from low-income countries. 
Applications for scholarship should be submitted with the abstract 
together with a short CV. The best papers will be considered for a 
forthcoming peer-reviewed publication. For any questions please contact: 
(safetyofjournalists /at/ oslomet.no) <mailto:(safetyofjournalists /at/ oslomet.no)>


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