IPI Belgrade 2008, World Congress and 57th General Assembly, Serbia 14-17 June

IPI Honours Talking Points Memo with 2008 Free Media Pioneer Award

On the occasion of its World Congress in Belgrade, Serbia (14-17 June 2008), the International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists, honoured the New York-based political blog, Talking Points Memo (TPM), with the 2008 “IPI Free Media Pioneer” award.

David Kurtz, Managing Editor of Talking Points Memo, received the prize on behalf of TPM at the award ceremony in Belgrade on Tuesday, 17 June.

Created and run by the U.S. journalist, Joshua Micah Marshall, Talking Points Media (www.talkingpointsmemo.com) is the flagship blog of TPM Media, a network of sites that includes TPMmuckraker, TPMCafe, and TPM Election Central. Mr. Marshall started Talking Points Memo in November 2000 during the Florida election recount. In 2002, Talking Points Memo was instrumental in the reporting that led to U.S. Senator Trent Lott’s resignation as Senate Minority Leader following his controversial comments praising Senator Strom Thurmond's segregationist run for president in 1948.