When: 20 September 2012 - 21 September 2012

Where: Hotel Moskva, Belgrade

Organized by: Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media and the OSCE Mission to Serbia

After the very successful first ever OSCE South East Europe media conference held last year in Sarajevo, this annual event is to continue in Belgrade in September 2012. The event is designed to offer journalists, academics, NGOs and the international community from South East Europe a platform to discuss media freedom challenges and ways forward. It will contribute to raising awareness among decision-makers in the hope of identifying solutions to media freedom challenges.

This year, the conference will focus on major factors that impact press freedom:

1. State Policies and Law:
   • Restrictive Laws and Practices;
   • State Ownership and State Aid;
2. Business and Corporate Interests:
   • Transparency of Media Ownership and Media Pluralism;
3. Fear of Violence and Self-Censorship:
   • Safety of Journalists and State Response to Threats and Violence;
4. What is next in the Balkans?

Follow the conference on Twitter @OsceSeemc2012

The conference is supported by the OSCE Presence in Albania, OSCE Mission in Kosovo, OSCE Mission to Montenegro, OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the OSCE Mission to Skopje

Registration and Quiries

Dimitrije Todoric (dimitrije.todoric@osce.org), Senior Programme Assistant, Media Department, OSCE Mission to Serbia
Tijana Nedeljkov (tijana.nedeljkov@osce.org), Administrative Assistant, Media Department, OSCE Mission to Serbia

Co-ordination

Ženet Mujić (zenet.mujic@osce.org), Senior Adviser to the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
Dragana Solomon (dragana.solomon@osce.org), Head of the Media Department of the OSCE Mission to Serbia

More information on the SEEMC from last year can be found here.

This event is financially supported by IREX and the United States Agency for International Development