As part of the BETA Photograph of the Year competition, the Vienna-based South and East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), calls for the submission of entries for its 2012 SEEMO Human Rights Photo Award. All professional photojournalists working and taking photographs in South East and Central Europe are […]

All 27 executive board members of the International Press Institute (IPI), the world’s oldest global press freedom organisation, expressed unanimous support last week for Israeli journalist Uri Blau. Blau faces charges under Israel’s Espionage Act and seven years in prison over articles he wrote for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz using classified military documents passed to […]

A two-day conference on “Media Development in Myanmar” started today in Rangoon, Burma. Organised by Burma’s Ministry of Information and Culture in cooperation with UNESCO and other international donors and media development organisations, the conference aims at sharing international best practices on media development, as Burma reforms its tightly controlled media system. “IPI warmly welcomes […]

The Syrian conflict continues and the country remains a black hole for the mainstream media, with foreign news outlets relying heavily on accounts from activists and citizen reporters to provide news and images, and reports from the correspondents who bravely manage to cross into the country. Two Turkish journalists who had been missing since Sunday, […]