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Media Azi, XV Edition: How Does the Independent Local Press Survive?

26 August 2016
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The journalist Nicolae Negru, as moderator and his guest, the director of the newspaper The Express, Lucia Bacalu, discuss about the state of the independent local press in the current edition of the show Media Azi.
 
How does the regional publication The Express which covers Ungheni, Nisporeni and Calarasi districts manage to remain on the market, in the conditions when the revenues from subscriptions and advertising are not able to cover the expenses related to newspaper publishing? And what other ways of survival did the journalists of the Express find? You will find out about these things from the show.
 
However, Lucia Bacalu notices some discontent from those who are in power today. These react painfully to the critical materials about them, although when they were in opposition, they enjoyed when the journalists criticized the government.
 
To the question what the state should do to support the independent press which counts very much in a democracy, the director of the newspaper The Express mentioned that everyone is talking about this in the last ten years, but nothing is done. That's why the state of local press continues to remain unsure."We are like a leaf on the water. We don't know what awaits us over half a year, how many subscriptions we will have, will we have or not advertising, will there exist or not projects to save us "...