Press information
Main Nobel Peace Prize events
(Please see Laureates' program for additional events)
Press conference
A press conference with the official representatives of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate will be held at the Nobel Institute on Sunday 9 December at 1:00 pm.
Ceremony and banquet
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2012 will be awarded in Oslo City Hall on Monday 10 December at 1:00 pm, followed by the Nobel Banquet (photo pool only) at Grand Hotel at 7:00 pm.
Press accreditation and badges
The deadline for accreditation applications was 27. November 2012. It is no longer possible to apply for accreditation.
Accreditation badges can be picked up at Grand Hotel Saturday 8 December from 10 am till 16 pm and on Sunday 9 December from 09:30 am till 11:30 am.
Accreditation to the Nobel Peace Prize Concert is handled separately. Application deadline was Friday 23. November 2012.
TV & Radio production, distribution and rights
The Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony in Oslo is exclusively filmed by NRK and thus NRK/TV is the only broadcaster that will have cameras inside the City Hall. There will be no cameras on the Gallery. Nobel Media owns all rights and copyright to the material and distributes the program internationally to both TV and radio.
For information on accessing a live feed, please contact broadcast@nobelmedia.se, tel: +46 8 663 6136, mobile phone: +46 70 772 5818.
Eurovision Special Events, in cooperation with NONRK, is planning to establish production and transmission facilities in Oslo. Please send your requests to bookings@eurovision.net . Tel +41 22 717 2840.
For general inquiries and for media who require a commentary booth at Oslo City Hall during the ceremony, please contact NRK - marit.moi@nrk.no , tel. +47 95937347 – by November 30th at the latest.
Photographers / Journalists
A photo pool will cover the ceremony from the ground floor of the Main Hall. All other still photographers, together with journalists, will be taken to the Eastern Gallery of the Hall through the entrance of the Western Tower. Please note that only one still photographer and/or one reporter from each media will be admitted to the gallery Note also that these photographers will not be admitted to the main floor of City Hall during the ceremony.
CNN interview
CNN will broadcast a live interview with the representatives of the laureate on Monday 10 December at 5:00 pm in Oslo City Hall.
Opening of the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize laureate exhibition at the Nobel Peace Center
At 5: 00 pm, 11. December.
Closed event. Press pool.
For details, contact Kirsti Svenning, email: ks@nobelpeacecenter.org, mobile: +47 95 19 13 15
Concert
The annual Nobel Peace Prize Concert will commence on Tuesday 11 December at 8:00 pm in Oslo Spectrum. For more information about the concert, please go here
Further information
A detailed press programme will be available at a later date. If you have media-related questions please contact the Norwegian Nobel Institute at press@nobel.no.
For questions regarding accreditation, please contact Kristin Hafseld at
khj@mfa.no or tel.: +(47) 23 95 03 08, mobile: +(47) 91 61 86 04 or Benedicte Koren, mobile: + (47)900 29 395
