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2020 Top for ZdG: The Most-Read Investigations, Reports, and Interviews
In 2020, the website www.zdg.md hosted the most readers in its history: 5 million. The news, surveys, interviews, and reports of ZdG journalists were read, distributed, and discussed both online and in many loc…
15 January 2021
Letters From Our Readers
Dumitru Cernea is 86 years old. He dedicated 57 years of his life to the work of an engineer. He is now retired and currently lives in Chișinău. He is one of the 10,000 subscribers of Ziarul de Gardă. One day,…
15 January 2021
EU Approves €5 Million in Support of Police Sector Reform
The European Commission has approved the disbursement of €5 million in budget support assistance to help the delivery of reforms in the police sector in Moldova. The disbursement follows progress made in key re…
31 December 2020
ZdG Won Top Prizes in the “Reflecting the Phenomenon of Corruption in the Press” Contest
On the International Anti-Corruption Day, Transparency International – Moldova and the Independent Press Association announced the winners of the 10th edition of the contest “Reflecting the phenomen…
10 December 2020
Chișinău to London: A Story about Big Money and Small Information
Today is International Anticorruption Day and The Foreign Policy Centre published a detailed story from the ZdG Executive Alina Radu on how to fight corruption in the poorest country in Europe. When you are a…
09 December 2020
Ziarul de Gardă Joins the “Zero Zone” Initiative, the Responsible Citizens’ Community And a Place For Honest Businesses
Ziarul de Garda is the newest member of the “Zero Zone”, a community of honest and responsible people, announced ZdG’s Executive Alina Radu. “We decided to join Zone Zero because, for 16…
23 November 2020
A Police Officer With a Mask at the ZdG Newsroom
This summer brought a new tradition at ZdG. Every few weeks, a uniformed policeman visits us at the newsroom with a letter obliging us to disclose sources in our investigations. Yes, it’s a pandemic, ther…
10 September 2020
August 2020 In Numbers At ZdG
August 2020 brought an increased audience to ZdG, with new followers and readers. Thank you for taking the time and interest in our articles in these uneasy conditions. The ZdG team aims to continuously keep up…
02 September 2020
The Trials of Advertising and Fundraising
First Money When we launched our newspaper back in July 2004, we had no money, no sponsors, no advertising, or patrons. We had received a small grant from the Government of Romania (Department for Romanians Abr…
01 August 2020
Behind the Scenes of ZdG Investigations
On July 23, a colleague’s grandmother called the newsroom, crying like a child. She had just received the new issue of ZdG, read the investigation of her granddaughter, Diana Gațcan, and got restless. She…
31 July 2020
