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LEIPZIG, September 23, 2008. Journalist and writer U Win Tin is free. The 79-year-old, having spent more than 18 years imprisoned in Burma for alleged subversion and antigovernment propaganda, was released today 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 Media Foundation of Sparkasse Leipzig Chairman Dr. Harald Langenfeld 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.” More »