SEEMO announces 2010 awards

The winner of the 2010 Dr. Erhard Busek-SEEMO Award for Better Understanding in South East Europe. The international 11-member jury chose veteran journalist and editor Omer Karabeg, in recognition of his continuous and outstanding contribution to better communication, exchange and cooperation in South East Europe, and especially in the West Balkan region, said a statement. SEEMO announces 2010 awards Karabeg was born Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, now lives in Prague, and is a journalist with the Radio Free Europe, (RFE/RL) South Slavic and Albanian Language Service program. He is also the founder and editor of the weekly RFE/RL radio show "The Bridge", said SEEMO. "The Bridge" is a weekly program launched in 1994 during the war in former Yugoslavia which since its inception has helped foster dialogue between distinguished public persons from different countries in the region, and has tackled highly controversial issues. The most interesting discussions from "The Bridge" have been published in three books. During his career, Omer Karabeg has received many awards for his work as a journalist, including the Jug Grizelj prize for promoting friendship and overcoming barriers between people in the region (2001), the award and first prize for editors and producers from the Serbian Union of Journalists for his organization and direction of reporting on the overthrow of Communist rule in Romania (1991), and the prize for best TV news at the festival of Yugoslav Radio and Television (1979 and 1989). During the Milosevic regime he was blacklisted in 1992 as a "traitor-journalist". The list was broadcast on prime-time news by then state-controlled TV Belgrade, said SEEMO. The South and East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) is a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists from South East and Central Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI).

SEEMO announces 2010 awards

Karabeg was born Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, now lives in Prague, and is a journalist with the Radio Free Europe, (RFE/RL) South Slavic and Albanian Language Service program. He is also the founder and editor of the weekly RFE/RL radio show "The Bridge", said SEEMO.

"The Bridge" is a weekly program launched in 1994 during the war in former Yugoslavia which since its inception has helped foster dialogue between distinguished public persons from different countries in the region, and has tackled highly controversial issues. The most interesting discussions from "The Bridge" have been published in three books.

During his career, Omer Karabeg has received many awards for his work as a journalist, including the Jug Grizelj prize for promoting friendship and overcoming barriers between people in the region (2001), the award and first prize for editors and producers from the Serbian Union of Journalists for his organization and direction of reporting on the overthrow of Communist rule in Romania (1991), and the prize for best TV news at the festival of Yugoslav Radio and Television (1979 and 1989).

During the Milošević regime he was blacklisted in 1992 as a "traitor-journalist". The list was broadcast on prime-time news by then state-controlled TV Belgrade, said SEEMO.

The South and East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) is a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists from South East and Central Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI).