8 March 2006

HANDBOOK PROFILES MEDIA AND PRESS FREEDOM IN SOUTHEAST EUROPE


The South East Europe Media Organization (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute( IPI), has recently published the third edition of its annual Media Handbook, which provides a useful overview of the state of media and press freedom in the region.

The 2005/2006 edition contains up-to-date reports on the following countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro (including Kosovo), Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey and Ukraine.

Each chapter covers media laws and regulations in each country, press freedom violations recorded in 2005 and a list of media in the region.

The handbook is available only in print and costs 30 Euro (US$35), not including shipping and handling. To order a copy, contact: SEEMO, Spiegelgasse 2 / 29, A-1010 Vienna, Austria; Tel: +43 1 513 39 40; Fax: +43 1 512 90 15.

For the 2006/2007 edition, SEEMO is inviting journalists and media experts to send information on media and press freedom violations in the region to: info@seemo.org

Visit: http://www.seemo.org



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