Sweden – (C1) Supervising the watchdog ‘control of controllers’
Media performance is often discussed.
Indicators: Control / Watchdog
Norway – (C9) Watchdog function and financial resources
Question: Are there specific and sufficient financial resources for exercising investigative journalism or other forms of power control? All the participants in […]
Norway – (C8) Professional training
Question: What importance do leading news media attribute to journalism training? When it comes to continuous journalistic training, it´s a lot of […]
Norway – (C7) The watchdog and the media’s mission statement
Question: Does the mission statement of the media company or the newsroom contain provisions on playing an active role as watchdogs / […]
Norway – (C6) Practice of access to information
Question: How accessible is public information to journalists? Formal legal rights are strong. There is much public information accessible, but there is […]
Norway – (C5) Journalist’s job security
[Pending inteview with union representative] Strong general legal framework in Norwegian welfare system, but widespread use of temporary contracts and freelancing. So, […]
Norway – (C4) Journalism professionalism
While Norwegian journalism is comparatively well-funded and enjoys comparatively strong independence, and while professionalism has traditionally been described as early developed in […]
Norway – (C3) Transparency of data on leading news media
Abundant information on especially use of media, and public institution MeideNorge (http://medienorge.uib.no) collects and makes available online many different surveys and statistics. […]
Norway – (C2) Independence of the news media from powerholders
Since 2009, “The act on editorial freedom” secures independence for editors (“Eigaren av medieføretaket eller den som på eigaren sine vegner leier […]
Norway – (C1) Supervising the watchdog ‘control of controllers’
Perhaps partly due to its small size the sustained and specialized media criticism is not found in journals or institutions, but media […]
