International Reporter (IR) (, IR) is a Norwegian

non-governmental organisation A non-governmental organization (NGO) is an independent, typically nonprofit organization that operates outside government control, though it may get a significant percentage of its funding from government or corporate sources. NGOs often focus ...

, working to improve and expand Norwegian media coverage of

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 20% of Earth's land area and 6% of its total surfac ...

Asia Asia ( , ) is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population. It covers an area of more than 44 million square kilometres, about 30% of Earth's total land area and 8% of Earth's total surface area. The continent, which ...

and

Latin-America Latin America is the cultural region of the Americas where Romance languages are predominantly spoken, primarily Spanish and Portuguese. Latin America is defined according to cultural identity, not geography, and as such it includes countri ...

. It encourages journalistic cooperation across borders as well as the use of non-western sources.Internasjonal Reporter
- Internasjonal Reporter (in Norwegian) Retrieved 2 June 2011 The organization was established in 1987 as the ''Forum for Development Journalism'' by scholars at the Norwegian School of Journalism, researchers and journalists. The organisation's headquarters is in

Oslo Oslo ( or ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of 1,064,235 in 2022 ...

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...

International Resource Network

IR operates an English-language

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called International Resource Network (IRN).International Resource Network (IRN)
- International Reporter (in English). Retrieved 3 June 2011. It contains profiles of

journalist A journalist is a person who gathers information in the form of text, audio or pictures, processes it into a newsworthy form and disseminates it to the public. This is called journalism. Roles Journalists can work in broadcast, print, advertis ...

photojournalist Photojournalism is journalism that uses images to tell a news story. It usually only refers to still images, but can also refer to video used in broadcast journalism. Photojournalism is distinguished from other close branches of photography (suc ...

researcher Research is creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge. It involves the collection, organization, and analysis of evidence to increase understanding of a topic, characterized by a particular attentiveness to ...

aid worker Humanitarian aid is material and logistic assistance, usually in the short-term, to people in need. Among the people in need are the homeless, refugees, and victims of natural disasters, wars, and famines. The primary objective of humanitarian a ...

s, field experts and information officers working in, or with matters that concern, the developing world. The main target group for IRN is Norwegian journalists, although the database could also be relevant for those working within development aid, business or organisations, and who seeks partners for cooperation or resource persons in countries in the south.

Journalism Award

International Reporter’s Journalism Award recognizes a journalistic product which in an insightful, surprising and engaging way has shed light upon an international issue especially related to

. The award was presented for the first time in 2010. It was then awarded to

Inger Sunde Inger may refer to: People * Inger (given name), list of people with the given name * Inger (surname), list of people with the surname * Inger, the main character of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale ''The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf'' Other uses< ...

and Harald Eraker for «Connecting people», a critical

documentary A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction Film, motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". The American author and ...

about the mobile phone industry, that was aired on NRK Brennpunkt.Ny Tid-journalister vant to av tre priser
– Ny Tid (in Norwegian). Retrieved 3 June 2011.

Aftenposten (; ; stylized as in the masthead) is Norway's largest printed newspaper by circulation as well as Norway's newspaper of record. It is based in Oslo. It sold 211,769 daily copies in 2015 (172,029 printed copies according to University of Bergen ...

’s correspondent in

South Asia South Asia is the southern Subregion#Asia, subregion of Asia that is defined in both geographical and Ethnicity, ethnic-Culture, cultural terms. South Asia, with a population of 2.04 billion, contains a quarter (25%) of the world's populatio ...

Kristin Solberg Kristin Solberg (born 1982) is a Norwegian journalist and author. She is the Middle East correspondent for NRK and presently based in Beirut. Previously she covered the Middle East and South Asia for''Aftenposten''. Solberg has a bachelor's degre ...

, received the award in 2011.Aftenpostens korrespondent fikk Internasjonal Reporter-pris på Skup
– SKUP (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2 June 2011Solberg fikk IR-prisen
– Journalisten.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2 June 2011

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{{Webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140707225133/http://www.reporter.no/Network/About_us/index.html , date=2014-07-07 Organisations based in Oslo Organizations established in 1987 Journalism-related professional associations 1987 establishments in Norway European journalism awards