Photo: Reporters without Frontiers

LEIPZIG, September 23, 2008. Journalist and writer U Win Tin is free. Today the 79-year-old, having spent more than 18 years imprisoned in Burma for alleged subversion and antigovernment propaganda, was released from prison. “This is a great day for us and for Burma,” said Win Tin’s family.

“This is wonderful news. We are extremely pleased for him and his family,” summed up Dr. Harald Langenfeld, Chairman of the Media Foundation of the Sparkasse Leipzig, in an initial telephone conversation with the family.

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Sculpture “Nikolaisäule” as symbol of the “Prize for the Freedom and Future of the Media”

Leipzig, September 2nd, 2008. This year’s “Prize for the Freedom and Future of the Media”, donated by the Media Foundation of the Sparkasse Leipzig and including a total prize money of 30,000 €, goes – ex aequo – to German journalist Susanne Fischer, British TV reporter Alan Johnston and writer and journalist Win Tin of Burma.

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Laureates 2001 – 2008

Dirk Lorenz, Ivonne Dietrich, Jens Hoppe, Myriam Haas, Tilo Weiskopf (from left to right)

(Leipzig, June 12, 2008) For the first five students of the Leipzig Media Master’s program (MML), it’s a job well done. Two women and three men were sent off in a graduation ceremony on June 11, 2008.

Master’s certificates were awarded to Ivonne Dietrich and Myriam Haas, both of whom opted for the in-service degree program “Web Content Management,” as well as to Jens Hoppe, Dirk Lorenz and Tilo Weiskopf, who specialized in “Crossmedia Publishing.”

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Stephan Seeger, Katharina Eberenz, Prof. Dr. Ernst Fischer, Prof. Dr. Michael Haller (from left to right)

(Leipzig, March 17, 2008) For the fourth time the Media Foundation of the Sparkasse Leipzig and the Institute of Communication and Media at the University of Leipzig jointly awarded the “Promotion Prize of Bibliology”. The award ceremony was held at the at the “Book Studies” booth of the Leipzig Book Fair on Saturday, March 15, 2008. Prof. Michael Haller, Director of the Institute of Communication and Media at the University of Leipzig, delivered the laudatory speech.

The 2.500 € “Promotion Prize of Bibliology” is awarded in memory of Prof. Dietrich Kerlen. This year’s laureate, bilbiology scientist Katharina Eberenz from Mainz, was honoured for her final thesis entitled “Reading with Hands and Ears. Braille and Audio Books for the Blind and Visually Impaired.”