USA (bbabo.net), - The US Department of State intends to allocate up to $500,000 to a program that involves "comprehensive training" of Moldovan journalists. This is stated in the description of the grant that appeared in the public space.
Among the priority areas of work is: the development of a culture of "fact-based" coverage of events in the media and the skills of "corruption investigations".
“The US Embassy (in Chisinau) invites interested organizations to apply for projects to provide journalists and media professionals with comprehensive focused and practical training through the MediaCor center at the State University of Moldova, including through the American pavilion,” the document says.
The organizers of the course promise to help "raise awareness and strengthen professional skills" of Moldovan journalists and media workers.
The training of Moldovan journalists should, inter alia, take place in the following areas: “development of a culture of ethical, balanced, objective and fact-based reporting”, “corruption investigations”, as well as reporting on legal topics.
The program also involves trips of journalists from Moldova to the United States to gain first-hand experience in media structures. Trained journalists may also be offered “other types of interaction with competent practitioners” in the field of media, both from Moldova and from other countries.
Recall that earlier the Deputy Director of the Information and Press Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Ivan Nechaev, stated "the degradation of the situation with media freedom in Moldova." The statement was made after the ban on the broadcasting of Russian information content in the republics in the context of the adopted law “on the fight against propaganda”, as well as the persecution of opposition media. According to him, the Moldovan authorities "put pressure on independent and opposition media resources, the information space is being cleaned from opinions and assessments objectionable to the government."
As bbabo.net reported, in September 2022, the US Embassy in Chisinau established a fund for the developmentertainment content in Russian for Moldovan citizens. The website of the diplomatic mission stated that the project aims to strengthen the resilience of the Republic of Moldova "in the face of harmful foreign influence" by supporting the production and broadcasting of high-quality Russian-language Moldovan-made TV content.
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