As I mentioned Monday morning, for the first half of this week TPM's Managing Editor David Kurtz was attending the International Press Institute World Congress & 57th General Assembly which was held this year in Belgrade, Serbia. At the closing ceremony Tuesday evening, David accepted the "Free Media Pioneer 2008" award on behalf of the entire TPM crew.

I was just checking out the website this evening. And they've got a pretty elaborate multimedia setup, where I noticed they'd already posted pictures of the award event. So I thought I'd share them with you.

As you can see there, the award is some sort of glass obelisk or something. And as David told me by IM early this afternoon (evening local time) his primary remaining mission was to see if he could get it back to New York in one piece.

We'll keep you posted.