Teachers
Anna Roosvall
Apart from her work as a program director for the Master of Global Journalism program, Anna is a post-doctoral researcher at the department. In her own post-doctoral project "Nations and Globalizations in Foreign News. Culture and Politics in the International News Picture Circuit" she studies pictures from international news agencies. She is also involved in an international project on media and climate change.
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Professor Kaarle Nordenstreng, Finland
Media & development
Kaarle Nordenstreng is Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication, particularly electronic media, University of Tampere. He has had several visiting appointments abroad, and has published extesively on communication thory, international communication, and media ethics.
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Leonor Camauër
Leonor teaches MAGJ students media theory along with issues related to media text and analysis, feminism/gender, media culturecultural and ethnic aspects of media, media theories, communication researchcommunication theory and researchintercultural communication. Read more
Peter Berglez
Peter Berglez is a researcher involved in studying climate change and the media along with international communication (the relationship between capitalism and media discourse). He teaches in areas related to media and globalisation, critical theory and critical discourse analysis. Read more
Risto Kunelius
As a professor at the University of Tampere, Risto Kunelius' research areas are journalism, professionalism, media history, and communication theory. Read more
Roland Stanbridge, Sweden
Online Investigative Journalism, Seminar series
Having worked as the local correspondent for various publications (including New African, Africa Now, and The Guardian, London) in Sweden, South African born Roland Stanbridge returned to South Africa between 1995 and 2000 developing the New Media Laboratory and the Highway Africa series of conferences at Rhodes University. His focus is on new technology and the news media. He now teaches courses for international journalists at both Örebro and Stockholm universities.
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Professor Rune Ottosen, Norway
War & peace journalism
Rune Ottosen graduated in journalism in 1973 (Norwegian College of Journalism) and in Political Science in 1984 (University of Oslo). He has worked for many years as a journalist in various Norwegian media. From 1984-89 he was engaged as a lecturer and research fellow at the Norwegian College of Journalism. From 1989 -1993 he worked as Information Director and Research Fellow at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) where he was in charge of the research project "Enemy Images in Norwegian Media Since the Thaw in East-West Relations". From 1994-1996 he worked as a research fellow at the Norwegian Journalist Federation writing the professional history of Norwegian journalists. Since 1996 he has worked as associate professor at the Journalist education, Oslo College and became professor in the same institution in July 1999.
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Professor Stig-Arne Nohrstedt, Sweden
Global journalism, global media
Stig A. Nohrstedt is professor in Media & Communication at Örebro University
with a Ph.D. in Political Science from Uppsala University, Sweden. As researcher he has
studied war journalism, journalism ethics and crisis communication.
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Professor Ullamaija Kivikuru, Finland
Media & development
Ullamaija Kivikuru is professor in journalism at the Swedish School of Social
Science, University of Helsinki (SSKH). In in 2002-03 she worked as a senior
research fellow of the Academy of Finland, and she has as a side obligation
the role of the head of research for FISS. Her instruction and research focus
on two areas, journalism and international communication, especially development
communication, and she has worked and done research in Eastern and Southern
Africa as a journalism educator and researcher.
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Walid al-Saqaf
With academic degrees in both computer engineering and journalism, Walid applies a multidisciplienary approach in teaching about the use of Web 2.0 applications in media production and how journalists should cope with the rapidly developing Internet social networking and user generating tools. He also reflects on ethical, security and professional concerns associated with journalism in a digital age. Read more
