Adrian Mogos, Romania (2010). Special mention to Iryna Khalip from Belarus and Lydia Pavlova from Bulgaria for their valuable contribution to investigative journalism. The conference Media and Politics was organised by SEEMO, International Academy, SECEPRO and International Institute-International Media Center in Bucharest in 2014 with over 150 participants. The event was open by Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta. The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) is a regional, nongovernmental, non-profit network of editors, media executives and leading journalists from newspapers, magazines, radio and TV stations, news agencies and new media. SEEMO defends press freedom and protects journalists. It promotes quality journalism through education and training. Taras Zozulinskyy, Chairman of the Board Bureau of journalistic investigations “Detectives”, was praised for his extensive journalistic work documenting war crimes during the Russian aggression in Ukraine, in cooperation with several media and human rights organisations. SEEMO leads missions to countries where press freedom is under threat, meeting with government officials, diplomats, journalists and non-governmental organisations, and providing legal representation and support in court cases. In 2009 SEEMO organised a press freedom Mission to Serbia, where the delegation met with Serbian Minister for Internal Affairs Ivica Dacic, as also more than 70 media representatives. In 2011 SEEMO organised a press freedom Mission to Croatia, where the group met with Croatian President Ivo Josipovic and more than 60 media representatives from Croatia, a press freedom missions to Montenegro (meeting with prime minister Igor Luksic and over 30 media representatives), Macedonia (meetings with president Gjorgje Ivanov and prime minister Nikola Gruevski and over 40 media representatives) and Kosovo (meetings with president of Kosovo Atifete Jahjaga and prime minister Hashim Thaçi and more than 50 media representatives). Missions in 2012: Serbia (in February 2012, meeting with Minister of Internal Affairs Ivica Dacic) and Bulgaria. In 2014 SEEMO was organising with IPI a press freedom mission to Slovenia and to Croatia, and in 2015 to Greece. SEEMO organised also three missions to Hungary, one mission to Slovakia and one mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina. Additional SEEMO participated in several international press freedom missions, like four international missions to Turkey, two missions to Macedonia and two missions to Hungary.

SeeMo is incredibly power efficient and runs off rechargeable Sony NP-F type batteries that are widely available. Once attached, a single battery can last a full day of shooting. A useful 5V USB-C output port on the side of the SeeMo allows the powering of devices like microphones and small on-camera lights, or can even act as an emergency power bank for your iOS device with the correct cable. Adding a SeeMo and utilizing the stunning Retina display on the phone gives you a clear, bright view of what your camera is seeing, all with a screen that is larger and far higher resolution than the in-built camera screen. The colour reproduction, brightness and resolution of iPhones and iPads is always first class. Images are crisper and cleaner, with super high pixel density where the eye can no longer detect individual pixels. Unlike regular monitors iPhones and iPads benefit from the very latest screen technology and improve yearly. Between January 2000 and 2012 (October), SEEMO has assembled over 14,000 editors-in-chief, media executives, leading journalists and public persons from the region in various meetings. Some of these meetings, like the meeting in Ohrid 2003, involving participants from Belgrade (Serbs) and Pristina (Kosovo-Albanians), were the first of their kind in history. You no longer need capture cards, hardware switchers, Live-U’s, or complex setups to livestream super high-quality video — you just need Accsoon SeeMo, an iOS device, and the Switcher Studio app. SEEMO campaigns for: Decriminalization of defamation and libel; establishment of financial sanctions for defamation and libel in civil litigation in line with a country’s economic development; and access to Information Legislation. How does SEEMO promote press freedom?SeeMo Pro SDI can also turn larger iPads and iPad Pros into ideal directors’ monitors with the aid of Accsoon’s line of PowerCages for iPad. However, political, economic, business, criminal or religious pressure differs from country to country and within the same country the situation may vary from one region to another. C) Facts indicate that action is required: Depending on the type of pressfreedom violation, different actions can be taken. Freedom of expression includes any act of seeking, receiving and imparting information or ideas, regardless of the medium. In practice, the right to freedom of speech is not absolute in any country and the right is commonly subjected to limitations, as is the case of defamation, slander, assault, calumny, vilification, libel, obscenity and incitement to crime and violence. SEEMO advocates for decriminalisation of defamation and libel. The United Nations Commission on Human Rights ruled in 2012 that the criminalisation of libel violates freedom of expression. It is also inconsistent with Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which states that everyone “shall have the right to hold opinions without interference” and “everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any other media of his choice”. SEEMO often reacts before there is a court ruling related to a particular offence. While there can be credible evidence that a particular person committed a particular press-freedom violation, SEEMO cannot issue a sentence before a court does it. Thus, the word “alleged” is often used when attributing press violation incidents to a person or an institution. That way SEEMO does not prejudge a case. For the same reason, SEEMO might not mention names of offenders, unless the police announce them, but also in that case not always. SEEMO uses quoted sentences only in certain cases, when the source asks to be quoted and there is no danger of misunderstanding. Written statement is easy to quote. But those obtained during a phone conversation or during a meeting can be more problematic, and are usually not published.

Between 2002 and 2004, SEEMO organised 14 dialogue meetings between editors-in-chief, media executives and leading journalists from South East Europe. SEEMO has over 1650 editors-in-chief, media executives and leading journalists from South East Europe as individual members, and over 100 media outlets and institutions as corporate members. Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.” (Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Paris 1948, art. 2) In 2022 – I began to participate in an international project to document war crimes – TribunalforPutin (T4P – https://t4pua.org/de/).Using the SeeMo and HDMI with Switcher Studio to livestream doesn’t use any additional internet bandwidth. Plus, with AccSoon SeeMo’s reliable hardwired connections, there’s nearly zero latency as you capture super high-quality video to use in your productions. How to Use Accsoon SeeMo with Switcher Studio

But that is just scratching the surface of SeeMo Pro’s capabilities. By placing your iPad or iPhone with SeeMo at the heart of an iOS ecosystem it opens up new ways of working, all with the simplicity and elegance of iOS apps and hardware.Additionally, SeeMo has to be plugged into your iPhone’s lightning or USB-C port to operate, but SeeMo can’t charge or power your iPhone while in use. SeeMo can send some charge when you’re using it with USB-C iPads, but it’s best to make sure whatever iOS devices you’re going to be using with SeeMo are fully charged. SeeMo needs to be plugged directly into your iOS devices Supported production of the journalistic investigations of Taras Zozulinskyy – the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (KHPG). SEEMO initiated in 2006 regular country meetings of investigative reporters (first meeting in Opatija, June 2006). SEEMO organised between 2006 and 2020 over 30 conferences and workshops for investigative journalists in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzeogvina, Slovenia, Albania, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Greece, Romania, Moldova, Montenegro, Kosovo, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland and Ukraine. Additional SEEMO organised 8 workshop for young investigative reporters in the SEEMO region. Applications will be examined by an international jury composed of distinguished journalists and media experts from the region, which may also include winners of previous editions of the Award. The awarding ceremony will take place during the South East Europe Media Forum (SEEMF) to be held in Tirana, Albania, in November 2023. SEEMO is also co-founder of the South, East and Central Europe PR Organisation (SECEPRO), founded in 2010, as a regional organisation for PR experts, active in more than 30 countries of South, East and Central Europe. The first SECEPRO meeting was in Ljubljana in May 2011 with leading PR representatives from the region. More on www.secepro.org.