This panel will look at the impact of a journalistic focus on politics and politicians. We will discuss how an emphasis on aggressive pundits and sensational sound bites cripples political conversatio...
Gro Engen
Since 2019 Gro Engen has been the editor of Einig? (Do you agree?), the new TV debate show on NRK, Norway's public service broadcaster. On the program the rules have changed. There is no host, the participants are not allowed to interrupt or speak in a technical political language, but shall try to listen, ask each other questions and maybe there will be some understanding between them as well.
Gro has worked as a journalist in Norway since 1999. She has hosted Ukeslutt (End of the week), one of Norway's biggest news and debate magazines on Radio P1 and P2, made investigative radio documentaries, and since 2014 she has been one of the editors of NRK's opinion editorials Ytring (Opinion).
The panelists will explore the many possibilities of constructive journalism and will outline their very different programs, revealing what has worked and what hasn't. They will also explain their mot...
