Media Azi: Does the Written Press Have a Chance of Survival in Moldova?

While in countries such as Germany, the Great Britain or the United States the circulation of the written press is constantly increasing, and the newspapers and magazines gain ground over the online media, the few publications currently emerging on the Moldovan market are experiencing serious difficulties, which may lead them to bankruptcy.

How does the written press resist given that the newsprint paper gets more expensive and that over half the newspaper cost goes to Î.S. ‘Posta Moldovei’? Who gets to support the written press and what policies could the Government develop in this situation?

Journalist Ivan Sveatcenko and his guest, the founder of the ‘Berega Dnestra’ (Nistru Banks) newspaper Artiom Varenita, discussed these and other aspects during the 82nd edition of Media Azi talk show.

 

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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.