Meeting at its annual General Assembly on 9 June in Helsinki, Finland, IPI members once again called for justice for the six Australia-based journalists murdered in East Timor in 1975. Eyewitnesses report that five of the television reporters and cameramen – Gary Cunningham, Brian Peters, Malcolm Rennie, Gregory Shackleton and Tony Stewart – were killed […]

  Session topics include: “Pluralism, Democracy and the Clash of Civilisations; Analysing the World Summit on the Information Society; SARS and the Media; Media in War Zones and Regions of Conflict; The International News Safety Institute; Media Self-Regulation: A Press Freedom Issue; The Transatlantic Rift; and The Oslo Accords – 10 Years On.

  Session topics include: Visions for the Balkans; What Went Wrong in the Balkans?; EU Enlargement – What Price Accession?; How to Guarantee Editorial Independence in Public and Private Media; Protection of Journalists in Regions of Conflict; and Terrorism – The New Threat to Global Security.