January 15, 2009, Sarajevo - The following guidelines are the result of two courses organised by the Media Centar Sarajevo in 2006 and 2008. The courses involved face-to-face sessions in Sarajevo either side of months of distance learning course work. The participants were selected by the project’s sponsor, SEENPM, the South Eastern European Network for the Professionalization of the Media, and represented 12 countries in the region. The aim of the guidelines is to provide journalists in the region with the tools to navigate the complex ethical issues involved in delivering responsible, robust, accurate, fair, balanced, impartial and objective journalism in the region in order to inform the public debate so that the audience can make educated choices. >>

November 15, 2008, Skopje - The Macedonian Institute for Media (MIM) has released an online version of the book "Kosovo and the Media". This publication is the outcome of comprehensive research on the coverage of the situation in Kosovo, which was carried out by the South-East European Network for Professionalization of Media (SEENPM) in eleven countries during January-February 2008. Alongside country reports produced by prominent researchers, the book incorporates a regional overview and a transcript of an international conference organized on this issue by MIM and SEENPM in Skopje in May 2008. >>

September 15, 2008, Skopje – As a result of a SEENPM research project on the press coverage of the situation in Kosovo, the Macedonian Institute for Media (MIM) has published a book incorporating a regional overview, eleven country reports, and the transcript of a conference of experts held on this issue in Skopje in May. Analysts from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, and Slovenia contributed to the project by monitoring two daily newspapers per country on their coverage of Kosovo during the first months of 2008. >>

February 15, 2008, Chisinau. Researchers from eleven countries-members of the South East European Network for Professionalization of Media (SEENPM) elaborated a study evaluating the observance of labor laws in the media throughout the region and identifying problems in the way labor laws are applied to fully employed media workers, as well as the so-called "atypical"employees. The project was coordinated by the Independent Journalism Center-Moldova (IJC), and the results are available on its Website:  http://www.ijc.md/eng (Research/Publications Section). >>

The publication represents the findings and conclusions of a SEENPM research project  conducted under the same name by Media Development Center, Sofia between January and September 2006 in 10 countries of South East Europe. >>

This new SEENPM research project focused on the good and bad practices of the media business. It was conducted from April to September 2005, by the Center for Independent Journalism Bucharest, in co-operation with the Media Development Center Sofia, while the actual research covered the period 1 June - 31 August 2005. >>

In 2005, within the project Gender Stereotypes in Media: Representation of Women in Print Media in South East Europe, Mediacentar Sarajevo began a research on the representational practices, gender stereotypization, modes and strategies of discrimination of women in print media in South East Europe. >>

Influenced and often pressured by politicians and media owners, hindered by poor material status and in fear of losing their jobs, journalists in South East Europe often violate ethical rules and deviate from professional standards. Assessments of the profession in the countries of the region vary from “satisfying” to “worse than ever”. >>