More than a year after Taiwan-based Next Media Group requested a broadcasting license from Taiwan’s National Communication Committee (NCC), the company has yet to receive permission to broadcast news programs. Representatives of Next Media Group have informed IPI that in August 2009 the company applied for licenses for a news channel, a general interest channel, […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) and its affiliate, the South and East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), will hold a press freedom fact-finding mission to Hungary on 15-16 December 2010. The mission participants will be: SEEMO Secretary General Oliver Vujovic, SEEMO Board Member Marta Palics, and IPI Press Freedom and Communications Manager Anthony Mills. They will […]

Autumn 2010 has been a season of political storms in India, and the media finds itself in the midst of a controversy, with its role and ethics under public scrutiny. In the centre of it all is a massive corruption scandal over the allocation of radio frequency spectrum to mobile telephone operators at 2001 prices […]

The South and East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in South East and Central Europe and an affiliate of the International Press institute (IPI), is pleased to announce that after careful deliberation the SEEMO Jury – composed of SEEMO Board members – has awarded the “SEEMO Human […]