Awards and Resolutions
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. In 2005, TPM launched TPMCafe, which features a collection of blogs about a wide range domestic and foreign policy issues. TPMmuckcracker, launched in 2006, focuses on investigative reporting of political corruption, and exposed the firing of eight U.S. attorneys by President George W. Bush's administration. TPM's reporting resulted in the resignation of several high-level Government officials and, in August 2007, of U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
IPI Resolutions
IPI Resolutions adopted by the 57th IPI General Assembly in Belgrade
Meeting at their 57th General Assembly in Belgrade, Serbia, on 16 June 2008, the IPI membership adopted the following Resolutions:
- IPI Resolution on Unresolved Murders of Journalists and Press Freedom in Serbia
- IPI Resolution on Erosion of Protection of Sources
- IPI Resolution on Journalists’ Freedom to Report on Natural Catastrophes
- IPI Resolution on Countries’ Failure to Respect Article 19
- IPI Resolution on Mexico’s Missing Journalists
- IPI Resolution on Bomb Attack on El Correo Newspaper
- IPI Resolution on Freedom of Expression in Zimbabwe
- IPI Resolution on Arrests of Journalists in South Africa
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New IPI Chairman & Board Members
At its 57th General Assembly in Belgrade, Serbia, on 16 June 2008, the members of the International Press Institute (IPI) announced the appointment of its new chairman, Janne Sakari Virkkunen, Senior Editor-in-Chief, Helsingin Sanomat, Helsinki. He succeeds Piotr Niemzcycki, publisher of the Polish daily newspaper, Gazeta Wyborcza.
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IPI Retains Ethiopia, Nepal, Russia, Sri Lanka, Venezuela and Zimbabwe on IPI Watch List
At the Board Meeting of the International Press Institute (IPI), in Belgrade, Serbia on 14 June 2008, the IPI Board unanimously voted to keep Ethiopia, Nepal, Russia, Sri Lanka, Venezuela and Zimbabwe on the IPI Watch List.
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