The ‘Media Azi’ Show, 68th Edition: Is it Legal for Journalists to Use Video and Telephone Wiretaps that Involve Public Figures?

The topic of the 68th edition of ‘Media Azi’ show is the public wiretaps appeared in mass-media, including video sequences in which certain politicians appear in an unfavourable light.

The host of this edition, the journalist Irina Gotisan, and her guests – Chairperson of the Centre for Investigative Journalism, Cornelia Cozonac, and legal adviser at the Centre for Investigative Journalism – will try to answer to a number of questions: How fair is, from ethical point of view, for journalists to use phone and video wiretaps in their journalistic materials? What does the law provide for in this respect? What does prevail in such cases – the citizens’ right to information or the public figures’ right to private life?

Last but not least, what should the journalists do when certain sources provide them wiretaps? How should we avoid playing the game of some persons or institutions interested in information leakage?

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“Media Azi” broadcast is weekly produced by the Independent Journalism Center. It is intended to disclose the problems faced at present by the journalists of the domestic media and to identify solutions to hem. The broadcast may be viewed on the websites www.moldova-azi.md, www.media-azi.md and mediacritica.md, as well as on the Youtube channel of the Independent Journalism Center. 

The broadcast was produced with the financial support of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, provided by the means of the Embassy of Sweden in Chisinau.