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DECEMBER 23-29, 2000
YPC
AWARDEES FOR YEAR 2000 DETERMINED
WHO
INTERFERED WITH THE WORK OF ARMENIAN MEDIA?
"JOURNALISTS
AGAINST TERRORISM AND VIOLENCE"
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YPC AWARDEES FOR YEAR 2000 DETERMINED On December 29, in Hrazdan Hotel in Yerevan the Annual Award Ceremony of Yerevan Press Club was held |
The winners of the annual
YPC contest this time were:
Ara
Papyan, presently RA
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador in Canada - for effective
co-operation with journalists when holding the position of press-secretary at
the RA Ministry of Foreign Affairs;
Editorial staff of
"Garoun" magazine - for a cycle of translations of foreign authors
under the heading “Constellation”;
Valeriy Aydinian
("Novoye Vremya" newspaper) - for collected satirical essays
“Tropicana” and for fruitful work in the genres of publicism and satire;
Alexey Manvelian (BBC World
Service, Central Asia & The Caucasus Service) - for building up information
bridges;
Rouben Mangassarian
("Patker" photo agency) - for professional representation of Armenian
photojournalism in foreign media;
"Prometheus" TV
company - for achieving creative progress in year 2000;
Natalia Gomtsian
("Golos Armenii" newspaper), Karen Mikayelian ("Novoye
Vremya" newspaper) - for professional coverage of cultural life;
Gyumri TV companies
"Shant" and "Tsayg"
- for effective creative competition at
the local broadcast market.
The Embassies of the United
Kingdom, France and Germany, as well as the OSCE Mission in Armenia awarded
special prizes.
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WHO INTERFERED WITH THE
WORK OF ARMENIAN MEDIA?
Yerevan Press Club polled
the heads of media enterprises, journalists and media experts to determine who
or which structures were the source of the most negative influence on the work
of Armenian media. The question was answered by 73 respondents.
The biggest number of
“antivotes” belongs to:
Agency of Press
Dissemination “Haymamoul” (8 “antivotes”) - for unsatisfactory work in
marketing periodical editions and permanent non-payment to the print media;
RA Ministry of
Transportation and Communication - departments that deal with the activities of
the broadcast media (7) - for repeated violation of the rights of broadcasters;
Deputies of RA National
Assembly (7) - for the deficiencies in media legislation, especially for voting
in favor of Draft Law "On Television and Radio" on October 9, 2000.
The results of the poll
were announced on December 29, during the Annual YPC Award Ceremony of year
2000.
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"JOURNALISTS
AGAINST TERRORISM AND VIOLENCE"
This is the title of the new book by Yerevan Press Club, published on December 28 (“Van Arian” publishing house).
The book represents a
sum-up of the International Action initiated by YPC together with Journalists
Union of Armenia and Internews Armenia to commemorate the anniversary of the
unprecedented terrorist attack on October 27, 1999 in RA National Assembly. The
book includes the texts of the presentations made during the International
Conference "Journalists Against Terrorism and Violence" (October
25-26, 2000, Yerevan) that was an important part of the Action.
The book is published with
the financial support of Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation-Armenia.
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On December 28 Arminco, the
leading Internet provider in Armenia, issued a news release that is also an
address to the clients, informing, in particular, about an attack on Armenian
servers. Hackers targeted the misconfigured name servers.
According to the news
release, Arminco has informed ArmenTel Company directly, and currently the
client support team of Arminco awaits appropriate actions on behalf of TeleGlobe
and Cable & Wireless. The provider apologizes to the clients for the
inconveniences caused.
Meanwhile, it is the second hacker attack on Arminco during the past week. Last time the clients of the provider were unable to receive messages of news agencies for a day.
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