More than two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, many top politicians and party leaders in South East Europe are still struggling to live with criticism. Instead, they continue to publicly accuse journalists of undermining national interests, treason, mafia ties, conspiracies etc. The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) congratulates the journalists honoured at the CNN MultiChoice African Journalist 2012 Awards Ceremony, including the many publishers and editors of IPI’s national committee in Nigeria. The 2012 Free Press Africa Award was given to the Nigerian press corps as a whole, whom the judges cited for “their bravery in continuing to report […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) is deeply concerned by the continuing violence against the media in Mali, and called for an end to assaults on, and the detention of journalists. In response to continued attacks on Malian journalists, the country’s press banded together Tuesday in a media blackout and march on the prime minister’s office […]

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), condemns the physical attack against the Bosnian and Herzegovinian journalist Stefica Galic, editor-in-chief of the web portal tacno.net. Galic was beaten on 18 July 2012 in Ljubuski, a small town 170 kilometres south of Sarajevo by a group of […]