Moldova: The building blocks for reporting a good story
Twenty seven senior managers, editors, program hosts and reporters from seven radio and television station across Moldova participated in a BBG workshop for affiliates. The workshop was designed to help BBG affiliates in Moldova build capacity for original production of content. The new Broadcasting Code of Moldova, which took effect on October 1, 2017, requires that Moldovan media organizations produce eight hours of their own content daily. At the end of the training, led by RFE/RL’s Moldovan Service, journalists:
- Developed tools and skills to weigh evidence, credibility of sources and context, to judge reliability of information
- Learned to distinguish between news and opinion and analyze the logic/rhetoric employed in opinion journalism
- Mastered skills to identify and distinguish between news media bias and audience bias
- Improved fundamental reporting skills for creating quality content
- Expanded knowledge of tools for the audience engagement through text, picture, audio and video, in various content formats, and outreach optimization in social media
