1999/2000 Yearbook of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media

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Accuracy In Media (AIM) Contact: Address: Country: Language: Tel.: Fax: Email: W ebsite: Topical focus:

Jo hn Wessale 4455 Co nnecticut Avenue, N.W., Suite #330, Washingto n, D .C. 20008, USA USA English (202) 364-4401 (202) 364-4098 info @aim.o rg, ar@aim.o rg w w w .aim.o rg Mass media

Self description: AIM (Accuracy In Media) is a non-profit, grassroots citizens w atchdo g of the new s m edia that critiques botched and b ungled new s stories and sets the record straight on im portant issues that have received slanted coverage. We encourage m embers of the media to report the new s fairly and objectively— w ithout resorting to bias or partisanship. By advising them of their responsibility to the public, w hom they claim to serve, AIM helps to nudge the members of the new s media into greater accountability for their actions. AIM publishes a tw ice-monthly new sletter, broadcasts a daily radio comm entary, prom otes a speaker’s bureau and syndicates a w eekly new spaper column—all geared to setting the record straight on im portant stories that the m edia have botched, bungled or ignored. We also attend the annual shareholders’ meetings of large media organiz ations and encourage our mem bers to bom bard new srooms w ith postcards and letters about biased and inaccurate new s coverage.

Alternativna Info rmativna Mreza (AIM) Address: Country: Language: Email: W ebsite: Topical focus:

AIM, 17 rue Rebeval, F-75019 Paris Fo rmer Yugo slavia Serbian, Cro atian, Bo snian, English, Albanian admin@aimpress.o rg w w w .aimpress.o rg Mass media

Self description: AIM is a project of independent journalists from former Yugoslavia and the European Civic Forum . AIM w as established in 1992 and its netw ork of journalists now adays covers all the states of form er Yugoslavia and Albania. The m ain objective of AIM is penetration through the information blockade and offering unbiased highquality professional inform ation. AIM engages independent journalists enabling them to remain in the profession and to inform readers of independent media about devel284

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