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Media Azi: When Parties’ Lack of Transparency Shuts Doors on Journalists

27 September 2018
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The cases when reporters of certain media outlets are not allowed to the events of public interest, become more and more frequent. Thus, on Tuesday, 25 September, the access to one of the weekly briefings of the Democratic Party was denied to the camera crew of ‘TV8’ broadcaster for the third time.
Journalist Anastasia Nani, moderator of ‘Media Azi’ Show, decided to discuss this new incident with the ‘Ziarul de Garda’ director Alina Radu and PDM representatives. The latter however, did not show up.
Find out, why selective admission of journalists to a certain event organized by a party is inconsistent with the media laws and why such refusal is qualified as an abuse.
You will also learn what a journalist can do in case of restricted access to information, and to what extent such situations could be prevented by guild’s consolidated actions.

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The show can be viewed on www.moldova-azi.md, www.media-azi.md and www.mediacritica.md portals and on the IJC’s Youtube channel.

Media Azi show is produced within the MEDIA-M project, implemented by Internews with the financial support of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The content of this edition is the responsibility of the Independent Journalism Center and does not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or of the US Government.