The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), is dismayed at recent changes in the Kosovo Penal Code, approved on April 20 in the Kosovo parliament. According to the controversial articles 37 and 38, journalists will be held criminally liable if they do not reveal their sources. […]

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 […]

After publishing an article on fuel quality and distribution in Kosovo, on March 28, 2012, several journalists from the Pristina-based daily Express started receiving threatening phone calls. One caller threatened to bomb the paper’s offices, according to Express Editor-in-Chief Leonard Kerquki. The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press […]

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), condemns the latest pressure against reporters of the “Justice in Kosovo” TV program. On 6 March 2012, the mayor of Prizren, a town 60 kilometres away from Pristina, Kosovo’s capital, allegedly threatened the TV crew of the program “Justice […]