A Slovenian journalism expert has been awarded the South East Europe Media Organisation's (SEEMO) prize for promoting understanding in Southeast Europe.
Brankica Petkovic was chosen for her work in improving the status of minority groups in the media and raising public awareness about their problems, SEEMO said in Wednesday's press release.
The head of the centre for media policy at the independent Peace Institute will collect the Erhard Busek-SEEMO prize for 2005 at the official presentation to be held in Vienna on 21 October.
Sponsored by Erhard Busek, special coordinator for the Stability Pact for SE Europe, the EUR 2,000 award is given to a journalist, editor, media executive or person educating journalists in SE Europe.
Prior to working for the Peace Institute, Petkovic spent seven years as the programming director at the Soros Fund in Ljubljana.
She had worked for a number of Croatian papers after graduating in 1989, but left Croatia when hostilities broke out after the break-up of the former Yugoslavia in 1991.
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