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Having evaluated the applications received, the jury chose nine teams that gathered the biggest score based on the following criteria: the team’s professionalism, quality of portfolio, originality of the concepts proposed, and reasonable budget for activities.
The winners of the contest are:
1. SP, Bălți
2. Observatorul de Nord, Soroca
3. Bas TV, Basarabeasca
4. Impuls TV, Șoldănești
5. Cuvântul, Rezina
6. Albasat TV, Nisporeni
7. Media TV, Cimișlia
8. Gazeta de Sud, Cimişlia, Cahul
9. Dnestr TV, Tiraspol
Members of the jury were Sorina Stefarta, Director of the School of Advanced Journalism; Petru Macovei, Executive Director, Association of Independent Press (AIP); Diana Raileanu, journalist, Radio Free Europe; Dumitru Lazur, journalist, RISE Moldova; Angela Sirbu, Project Director, Internews. Overall, 12 applications were filed for the contest.
The nine media partners will be involved in a series of activities: trainings on topics of media business and marketing, held by international experts; research visits of experts to partner media outlets; mentoring sessions on sales, marketing and promotion potential of their media products.
Local partners will also benefit from seven multimedia packages titled “Moldova Plus”, which they will use to vary their content. Partners will adapt the multimedia packages to the interests of the communities they work in. The period of production/adaptation of a multimedia package will be no longer than 1 month, beginning in April 2017.
“Strengthening Independence in Communication Media in Moldova, Ukraine and Georgia” is a project of the Independent Journalism Center (IJC) from Moldova and Internews, carried out in the period of September 2016 – May 2018. Contact person: Rodica Catareu, project coordinator, coordonator@ijc.md, phone: 022 213 652.
