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MOLDOVA JOURNALISTS EASE THE TRANSITION
Republic of Moldova is a small country in
SouthEastern Europe, between Romania and
Ukraine. It is a newly independent country, but
because of bad governance, now many European
Financial Organizations and Media qualify
Moldova as the poorest country in Europe.
As everybody knows, poverty is coming side by
side with corruption and non-transparency that
journalists in Moldova have a big mission to
change the society mind.
In Moldava, TV and Radio stations women make the
main part of engaged people, but their voices
are not so loud now, because the main part of
decisional jobs, as directors and editors in
chief are offered to men. The opportunity for
women in TV and Radio is to make good reportage
and news, as well as a lot of them a working as
reporters, presenters, DJ. They have an
immensity of topics: from the hidden process of
woman trafficking to the strong women
initiatives in business and political issues.
That many journalists try to promote women
rights in electronic media, as Maia Metaxa,
Radio reporter – a new member of IAWRT.
What we can say now, women journalists in
Moldova became to be the most active category of
women. The whole Europe heard about Moldovan TV
Station strike Committee, lead by women
journalists. After a few months of strike,
Council of Europe discussed very strong the
situation of journalists from the National TV
station in Moldova and recommended to the
government to make changes in the law, to
transform the main TV Company in Moldova in a
public one. I have to remark, that two of the
most active member of strike committee are
members of the IAWRT. Viorica Cucereanu and
Corina Fusu participated to the meeting in
Chisinau, organized by IAWRT last November. They
screened a short documentary about the strike,
told about their situation there, and convinced
us they can fight for freedom of expression. The
freedom of TV, rights of TV journalists and TV
watchers in Moldova were discussed again on 28
January at the Parliamentary Assembly of Council
of Europe. We can change our society with the
help of European community, and we are proud
that it done by our effort and our voices,
voices of the newest members of IAWRT.
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