The International Press Institute (IPI) today mourned the passing of Spanish journalist, long-time IPI member and friend José Luis Gutiérrez Suárez, who fought and in 2010 won a more-than-a-decade-long battle to vindicate his right to free expression. Gutiérrez, 68, was found dead in his Madrid apartment yesterday. He reportedly was involved in a recent motorcycle […]

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), is set tomorrow to kick off its annual conference dedicated to investigative reporting, The III South, East and Central Europe Investigative Journalism Days, in Chisinau, Moldova. The conference is scheduled to take place from May 23 to 25 with […]

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), today condemned physical threats made against two Kosovo journalists on May 16 in the ethnically divided city of Mitrovica, in northern Kosovo. Protesters threatened to attack journalists Musa Mustafa of the Pristina-based daily Koha Ditore and Alidin Damati of […]

The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) today announced that Serbian journalist Igor Pavicevic won the 2012 SEEMO Human Rights Photo Award. The winning photograph, “Ručak na barikadi”, (Lunch at the Barricades), shot on Sep. 18, 2011, in Jarinje, Kosovo, was selected by the SEEMO jury, headed by Radomir Licina (Danas daily, Belgrade, Serbia). Pavicevic […]