Congrats to Alagi Yorr and Pap.  Tyranny can only stop your progress if you let it.  When you continue to stand straight, none can ride on your back.  This honor represents the collective aspirations of all Gambia Media practitioners.
Joe

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 01:19:26 -0400
Subject: [>-<] Breaking News: Gambia: Jallow and Saine in Austria to attend IPI World Congress
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Breaking News: Gambia: Jallow and Saine in Austria to attend IPI World Congress

Jallow and Saine in Austria to attend IPI World Congress





As Jallow And Saine Honored As IPI Heroes 

The International Press Institute (IPI) will hold its annual World Congress in Vienna, Austria, and Bratislava, Slovakia, from 11-15 September 2010, Alagi Yorro Jallow and Pap Saine  of The Gambia will attend this World Congress.

Pap Saine and other eight journalists who have shown courage in defending universal rights  will be honored as IPI Heroes,bringing the number of IPI World Press Freedom Heroes to sixty.


The 2010 World Congress will mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of IPI, and the organization will celebrate 60 years of defending press freedom in a series of events, culminating in the World Congress in the “twin cities” of Vienna and Bratislava. Under the overall theme, “Thinking the Unthinkable: Are We Losing the News? (Media Freedom in the New Media Landscape),” the three-day conference will focus attention on the state of the news media itself, providing new business models and solutions for the media, and the unique opportunity to meet and interact with major players from both traditional and new media outlets.


The Congress will also look at the new ways of delivering information and how new technologies are proving to be a powerful ally of freedom of opinion and expression.

“The new information platforms are having an enormous impact not only on mainstream journalism, but also on press freedom in countries where authoritarian regimes seek to curtail freedom of opinion and expression,” said IPI Director David Dadge.


At a special Gala Dinner and Ceremony, to be held at Vienna City Hall, IPI will honor “60 World Press Freedom Heroes” to commemorate the 60 years of its existence. IPI’s Press Freedom Heroes are individuals who have made a significant contribution to the defense and promotion of press freedom, especially – but not only – if this involved acts of resistance or bravery under hardship conditions. “We will pay tribute to these brave men and women, who displayed the utmost courage in defending press freedom in their country or region,” said Dadge. “Many of them paid the ultimate price, murdered for what they wrote or said.” IPI intends to invite all surviving Heroes to the ceremony in Vienna.

International Press Institute is a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists, who are dedicated to the furtherance and safeguarding of press freedom, the protection of freedom of opinion and expression, the promotion of free flow of news and information and the improvement of the practices of journalism.

In another development, this paper has gathered that the former Banjul based Daily Observer Newspaper Proprietor Kenneth Y Best, a renowned Liberian journalist, is also among the honored journalists.  Mr. Best, is the proprietor of the Liberian Daily Observer in Monrovia.  Mr. Best was deported from The Gambia by the former military junta headed by then Lieutenant Chairman Jammeh. He sold his Newspaper  to businessman Amadou Samba, a close associate of President Jammeh.  

 


Posted on Thursday, September 09, 2010 (Archive on Sunday, October 31, 2010)
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