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  • Press Release, Athens World Conference
    Press Release, Athens World Conference
    Media development campaigners from around the world meet in Athens this week for a major debate on "Quality information for all" and how free journalism and independent media can contribute
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  • Middle East/North Africa Regional Conference
    Middle East/North Africa Regional Conference
    Participants at the first Regional Forum for Media Development for the Middle East/North Africa (MENA) agreed that the lack of an enabling legal and institutional environment for media freedom was the biggest problem blocking media development in the region...
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  • Press Release South Africa, Grahamstown, Regional Conference
    Press Release South Africa, Grahamstown, Regional Conference
    Media support groups from across Africa have added their voice to global calls for action...
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Drew Sullivan

Drew Sullivan is the advising editor of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), a consortium of leading investigative centers, reporters and news organizations in Eastern Europe and Eurasia dedicated to reporting on transnational organized crime. OCCRP's first project won the Global Shining Light Award for investigative reporting under duress. He is a founder and managing member of the Journalism Development Group LLC, a small, innovative media development organization with projects around the world. He is also a founder and former editor of the Center for Investigative Reporting in Bosnia-Herzegovina, an independent, regional investigative news service that won the 2007 Online Journalism Award for best small investigative reporting web site.

He was a city hall and investigative reporter for the Tennessean newspaper in Nashville and the news data editor for the Associated Press's special assignment team in New York. He has served on the board of directors of Investigative Reporters and Editors and the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting. He taught investigative journalism and computer-assisted reporting at New York University. Before coming to journalism, he was an aerospace engineer on the Space Shuttle project for Rockwell Space Systems in Downey, California.

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Global Forum for Media Development
Athens world Conference, 7-10 December 2008
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