SEEMO Calendar	SEEMO in the News
February  - SEEMO Press Freedom Mission to Serbia March - SEEMO Press Freedom Mission to Bulgaria 18-20 April - III South East and Central European Investigative Journalism Days and Public Broadcasting Workshop  -  Moldova May - Presentation of the SEEMO Photo Human Rights Award 2012 June - SECEPRO – PREXPO     ...more	SEEMO Media Experts Oppose Restricted Access to Bulgarian Business Registry Medien-Landschaft am Balkan kommt in Bewegung Fonetovih prvih 17 godina ...more

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Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaçi and SEEMO Secretary General Oliver Vujovic, Pristina, November 2011 Atifete Jahjaga, President of Kosovo and Oliver Vujovic, SEEMO Secretary General, Pristina, November 2011 Prime Minister of Montenegro Igor Luksic and SEEMO Secretary General Oliver Vujovic Director of Police of Montenegro Veselin Veljovic with SEEMO Secretary General Oliver Vujovic, Podgorica, November 2011 Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic and SEEMO Secretary General Oliver Vujovic, V SEEMF, Belgrade, Serbia, November 2011 Opening with Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic, V SEEMF, Belgrade, Serbia, November 2011 V South East Europe Media Forum with Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic, Belgrade, Serbia, November 2011 Presentation of the Dr. Erhard Busek SEEMO Award 2011 to Drago Hedl, Croatia (Photo: Dr. Erhard Busek, Drago Hedl, Oliver Vujovic) SEEMO conference in Sofia 2008: Opening panel with Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev Gjorge Ivanov, President of the Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) and Oliver Vujovic, SEEMO Secretary General, Skopje, October 2011 SEEMO Workshop: Investigative Journalism in Albania, Tirana, 2007 Presentation of the book Prime Time Crime by Kemal Kurspahic, publsihed by SEEMO, Belgrade, 2004 Nino Pavic, owner EPH group, Zagreb, SEEMO Conference, 2007 SEEMO Conference Roma Media in South, East and Central Europe, 2003 SEEMO Conference in cooperation with City of Vienna, Bohmann Verlage and City of Athens, Athens, 2003 SEEMO Workshop Investigative Journalism in Romania, Bucharest, 2007 SEEMO Conference in cooperation with City of Vienna, City of Belgrade, Serbian Government and Bohmann Verlage, Belgrade, 2005 Group of participants from Vojvodina in Salzburg, SEEMO Conference, 2003 SEEMO-ADA Conference, Vienna, 2006 II SEEMO Meeting of media representatives from Serbia and Kosovo, Skopje, 2003 SEEMO - Friedrich Ebert Stiftung - Verband Österreichischer Zeitungen Conference Media and Tolerance, Opatija, 2003 Ivo Pukanic (killed in 2008 by a car bomb), SEEMO Conference, Zagreb, 2007 Presentation of the SEEMO Human Rights Award 2010 to the Bulgarian cartoonist Christo Komarnitski Regional Conference Opatija, 2003 SEEMO, City of Vienna, City of Trieste, Bohmann Verlag Conference Trieste, 2004 Round table: Two years of SEEMO and Press Freedom, in cooperation with Diplomatic Academy and Greek Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Vienna, 2002 Meeting with the Serbian Minister for Internal Affairs Ivica Dacic, Belgrade, 2009 Meting with representatives of the Hungarian Journalist Association, Budapest, 2010 Boris Bergant, Pavol Múdry, Alison Bethel McKenzie, Oliver Vujovic, Ingrid Deltenre (EBU Director General), Anthony Mills SEEMO delegation with President of Croatia Ivo Josipovic SEEMF, December 2010, Budapest: Srgjan Kerim (WAZ Media Gruppe), Gerhard Pfanzelter (Secretary General Central European Initative, CEI); Oliver Vujovic (Secretary General, SEEMO) and László Kövér (Speaker of the Hungarian Parlliament) SEEMF, November 2009, Tirana: Bamir Topi (President of Albania) and Oliver Vujovic (Secretary General, SEEMO) SEEMF, November 2009, Tirana: Vuslat Dogan Sabanci, Dogan publishing group, Turkey SEEMO I Investigative Journalism Days, May 2010, Budva (Montenegro): Gerhard Schaumberger (Austrian Embassy), Zeljko Ivanovic (Vijesti daily), Ranko Krivokapic (President of the Parliament of Montengro), Oliver Vujovic (Secretary General, SEEMO) Aiden White, former IFJ Secretary General, SEEMO Conference, Sofia 2008 President of Serbia Boris Tadic, SEEMO Secretary General Oliver Vujovic and SEEMO Board Member Radomir Licina, Belgrade June 2011 Stipe Mesic, President of Croatia and Oliver Vujovic, SEEMO Secretary General, Zagreb, 2007 Bodo Hombach, WAZ Media Gruppe and Oliver Vujovic, SEEMO Secretary General, 2007 Andreas Rudas, RTL Group, SEEMO Confernce Sofia 2008 Presentation of the Busek-SEEMO Award 2008: Erhard Busek (former Vice-Chancellor of Austria), Brankica Stankovic (Investigative reporter, RTV B92, Serbia) and Oliver Vujovic (SEEMO Secretary General)

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source: Jurnalul national, Antena3, GSP

Numerous reporters were physically assaulted by protesters and policemen while covering peaceful anti-government protests that degenerated into violence in Bucharest between 15 and 16 January 2012. It appeared that the journalists were deliberate targets.   Catalin Lupasteanu, from the Mediafax news agency, said that he was beaten up by the police although he shouted:"Press! Press!" ... read more

One day after receiving an award for defending human rights from Croatia’s president Ivo Josipovic and one month after receiving the Dr. Erhard Busek - SEEMO 2011 Award for Better Understanding in South East Europe, Croatian journalist and author Drago Hedl has received death threats. On 8 December 2011, the Commission of the Croatian Bishops' Conference “Justitia et Pax” asked President Josipovic to withdraw the award because they were not satisfied with Hedl’s reporting. They cited an article published 30 years ago. This announcement was followed by death threats against Hedl... read more

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), calls on the authorities in Vojvodina, northern Serbia, to protect journalists from political pressure.

With general elections approaching in spring 2012, the Independent Journalists’ Association of Vojvodina (NDNV) has registered a growing number of journalists’ complaints regarding political pressure... read more

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), will visit Kosovo from 23 to 25 November 2011.

The purpose of the visit to is to acquire a better understanding of the media situation in Kosovo. During the past years, SEEMO has received complaints regarding political and economic pressure on media outlets... read more

Kosovo journalist, publisher, politician and human rights activist Veton Surroi has won the 2011 SEEMO Human Rights Award. The SEEMO board praised Surroi’s non-violent methods and consistent “commitment to human rights” in all of his professional activities.\

The 2011 SEEMO Human Rights award will be presented to Veton Surroi on 24 November 2011 at 18.30 in the Hotel Victory, Pristina, Kosovo, during the international conference on News Agencies and New Media in South East and East Europe... read more

Budapest- Hungary’s new model of media regulation is creating a chilling effect and undermining freedom of expression said an international partnership mission comprised of leading press freedom and media development organizations today.

The partnership mission to Hungary, which took place from November 14th to 16th, included meetings with lawyers, journalists, editors, professional associations, representatives of civil society, the new media authorities, and the government representative to discuss the situation regarding the enactment and implementation of the new media law, which went into effect on January 1, 2011... read more

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), on Wednesday released its report on the media situation in the Republic of Macedonia/Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. The SEEMO-led press-freedom mission visited Skopje, the country’s capital, from 4 to 6 October 2011.

The delegation met President Gjorge Ivanov; Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski; Minister of Internal Affairs Gordana Jankulovska; Minister of Transport and Communications Mile Janakievski;  Head of the OSCE Mission to Skopje Ralf Breth; Austrian Ambassador Alois Kraut; and more than 30 media representatives, including owners, directors, editors-in-chief, journalists, media experts, media NGO representatives, and other professionals... read more

IPI/SEEMO Join Mission to Hungary

Groups Part of International Partnership to Highlight New Media Laws

The International Press Institute (IPI) and its affiliate, the South and East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), in conjunction with a number of international media freedom groups, today began a joint International Partnership Mission to Hungary to highlight the country’s regressive new media laws... read more

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), will visit Montenegro from 8 to 10 November 2011.

The purpose of the visit to is to acquire a better understanding of the media situation in the country. During the past years, SEEMO has received complaints regarding political and economic pressure on media outlets... read more

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organization (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), condemns the police raid against Afrika, a Turkish-language newspaper in Northern Cyprus.

On 1 November 2011 the police forcefully entered Afrika’s premises and removed a banner hanging from the balcony of the newspaper´s building. The banner was created by journalists to express solidarity with the general strike organized by the Trade Union´s platform of Northern Cyprus. It consisted of old newspaper headlines... read more

Polish Journalist Kalicki Włodzmierz Wins CEI SEEMO Award for Outstanding Merits in Investigative Journalism 2011

Special Investigative Journalism Diploma to Artan Hoxha (Albania), Dijana Subotički (Serbia), Matej Šurc and Blaž Zgaga (Slovenia)

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Oragnisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute, condemns renewed threats and pressures against journalists in Serbia.

 On 14 October 2011, Anel Grbovic, a journalist with the local Television Novi Pazar (southwest Serbia), received death threats, apparently because he failed to cover a voluntary blood donation event. The organiser allegedly called the journalist and threatened to beat him... read more

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), condemns continued political pressure on Hungarian minority media in Vojvodina, Serbia.

On 17 September 2011, Rudolf Mihok, the director of Television Panon from Subotica, a town on the border between Hungary and Serbia, was dismissed... read more

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), will visit the Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) from 4-6 October 2011.

The purpose of the visit to is to acquire a better understanding of the media situation in the country. During the past years, and especially since the beginning of 2011, SEEMO has received complaints regarding political and economic pressure on media outlets... read more

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute, condemns political and police pressure on investigative journalists who have revealed alleged illegal financing of the governing political party.

On Sunday 11 September 2011, Zagreb-based daily Vecernji List carried a story on illegal party finances and electoral campaigns. On 15 September 2011, the Bureau for Combating Corruption and Organized Crime (USKOK) summoned one of the authors, Josip Bohutinski, to testify. The police expected the journalist to reveal his sources but they did not pressure him to do so. Citing media law, Bohutinski did not cooperate... read more

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), demands the immediate release of Viktor Lazic, a travel writer for the Belgrade-based daily, Press.

Lazic was detained on 3 September 2011 on the border between Georgia and South Ossetia. According to the journalist, he was detained because he had allegedly crossed the border of the self proclaimed territory of South Ossetia. He is being held in solitary confinement... read more

The Vienna-based South East Europe Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), condemns the brutal beating of Zorana Bojovic, correspondent for the Serbian news agency BETA in the Russian Federation. The correspondent and her husband, Russian journalist Gennady Sysoyev, were beaten in a town near Moscow on 14 August 2011... read more

The Vienna-based South East Europe Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), condemns the detention of two journalists in northwestern Greece.

On 16 August 2011, the Skopje-based journalists, Goran Momirovski of Kanal 5 television and Milena Gjorgjievska, a journalist with the daily Vest, accompanied a group of senior citizens from the Republic of Macedonia/Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, who were trying to obtain their birth certificates in Florina, northwestern Greece... read more

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), condemns the latest attacks on journalists in Kosovo.

On 3 August 2011, there were two separate incidents involving physical attacks against journalists... read more

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), supports the demands of professional journalists’ associations in Serbia to participate in a democratic and transparent debate in the formulation of the country’s new media strategy.

Serbia has made several attempts to draft a new media strategy in accordance with international standards. Since 2010, studies have been commissioned and discussions held in order to compile different views related to this strategic document... read more

A Turkish court yesterday sentenced the trigger-man in the 2007 murder of International Press Institute (IPI) World Press Freedom Hero Hrant Dink to almost 23 years in prison.

A juvenile court in Istanbul imposed nearly the maximum sentence on ultranationalist Ogün Samast – who was 17 at the time of Dink’s killing – after convicting him of premeditated murder and carrying an unlicensed gun
Samast gunned down Dink, the editor-in-chief of Armenian-Turkish newspaper Agos, in broad daylight outside of Dink’s office in Istanbul... read more

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), strongly condemns the latest wave of violence against journalists in Northern Kosovo.

Three journalists were beaten during the latest incidents which occurred on the Serbia-Kosovo border-crossing in Jarinje. One was seriously injured with head injuries... read more

Terms of participation

Applications should include the following documentation:
1.  Filled in Application Form (here)
2.  Curriculum Vitae of the candidate
3.  Summary of the presentations of the candidate’s merits; details of the media which published / broadcasted the reports
4. Relevant supporting material about the candidate (TV reports on DVD, audio reports on CD, copies of articles in print media). Reports in local languages should be accompanied by a brief English translation. Please note that supporting material cannot be returned, therefore you are kindly invited to send copies of the original materials. 

CLOSING DATE

Applications should be submitted by regular mail or e-mail within 1 September 2011

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