The first Media Forum in Moldova, on October 27-28 in Chisinau, had in its agenda some urgent issues that the media are facing today – the need to adopt a new Broadcasting Code and to ensure media ownership transparency, the impact of mass media concentration on journalists’ independence and professionalism, excessive politicization of the media, internal and external propaganda etc.

The management of the investigation weekly Ziarul de Garda (ZdG) notifies that it was summoned to court for the preliminary hearing of a lawsuit initiated by a judge whose identity was not revealed. The judge claims that some information about her published by ZdG is wrong and demands that the publication apologizes. According to ZdG, the preliminary claim says that the judge disagrees with the way the information about her activity and property was presented.

Administrația Săptămânalului de investigații Ziarul de Gardă (ZdG) a anunțat că a primit o cerere prealabilă de chemare în judecată din partea unei judecătoare, a cărei identitate nu a fost făcută publică. Aceasta afirmă că nu este de acord cu unele informații apărute în ziar despre ea și cere publicației să-și ceară scuze.