The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), calls for nominations for the  2012 Dr. Erhard Busek – SEEMO Award for Better Understanding in South, Eastern and Central Europe. Eligible nominees include journalists, editors, media executives, media experts, writers or journalism trainers in South East Europe who have […]

The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) calls for nominations for the 2011 Dr. Erhard Busek – SEEMO Award for Better Understanding in South, Eastern and Central Europe. Eligible to be nominated are journalists, editors, media executives, media experts, writers or journalism trainers in South Eastern Europe, who have contributed to promoting better understanding in […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today joined with its Slovakian Committee in condemning Friday’s raid on the offices of Czech Television in Prague by military police. Czech daily newspaper Právo reported that masked military police carrying automatic weapons entered the station with a court order to secure a recently declassified document, and took away seven […]

World press freedom hero and co-founder of Velvet Revolution newspaper “Lidové Noviny” (People’s News) Jiri Dienstbier died of natural causes on Saturday at the age of 73. From 1969 until the end of Communism in Czechoslovakia in 1989, he was one of the major intellectuals associated with the dissident group Charter 77, a political and […]