10. 03. 2005

SEENPM held its Seventh General Assembly

Bucharest, 10 March 2005

The South East European Network for Professionalization of the Media (SEENPM) organized its Seventh General Assembly (GA) on 4 - 5 March 2005 in Budapest. Center for Independent Journalism (CIJ) (http://cij.hu/englisFrameset.htm) Budapest hosted the event.

SEENPM traditional donors-partners – Open Society Institute and the Danish School of Journalism - attended the meeting, which gathered representatives of sixteen out of the eighteen media centers that compose SEENPM.

The meeting analyzed the activity of the network on the previous year (March 2004 - March 2005) and discussed the calendar of activities for 2005.

The General Assembly also discussed the draft strategy aimed at shaping the future identity and goals of the network up to 2007 and beyond that date, which marks the beginning of a post donor era in the history of SEENPM. A coherent document reflecting the strategy of the network is to be completed in the near future.

The General Assembly made the following decisions:

Elections :

- Ioana Avadani, Executive Director of the Center for Independent Journalism (CIJ) Bucharest was elected – for the second time – as the President of the SEENPM, for one year. Consequently, the Secretariat remains with CIJ Bucharest.

- Boro Kontic – director of Media Center, Sarajevo – replaced Ljiljana Zurovac , Media Plan Sarajevo, whose two-year mandate in the Coordinating Committee expired.

Next meeting: The next General Assembly will be organized end of February/early March 2006 in Croatia .
For more information contact:
Mihaela Danga
Secretariat
South East European Network for Professionalization of the Media
(SEENPM) - www.seenpm.org
Center for Independent Journalism
Str. Bibescu Voda, nr.18, et. II, sect. IV, 040152 Bucuresti - ROMANIA
tel/fax: + 4 021 335 6297
email: mihaela@cji.ro