The Press Council published the Resolution of the Media Forum 2025, held in Chisinau on December 8 and 9, on its website. The document outlines key findings on developments in the media market over the past year and addresses several requests to the authorities, including the adoption of a new press law and the provision of effective protection for journalists.
The resolution states that authorities must accelerate efforts to align national media regulations with European Union legislation, while ensuring meaningful public consultations. The Media Forum highlighted the role of investigative journalists in exposing attempts to manipulate public opinion and criminal schemes aimed at rigging parliamentary elections. According to the document, Moldova’s information space remains highly vulnerable to external interference, disinformation, and manipulation, especially on social networks and non linear platforms. These vulnerabilities threaten social cohesion and may generate serious destabilizing effects in the future.
The Forum urged authorities to speed up the transposition of European legislation into national media regulations and to urgently adopt and implement a new press law. Participants also called for public policies that support the sustainable and long term development of the media sector, including local media, and emphasized the need to train professionals according to real labor market demands. The resolution also demands concrete guarantees for protecting journalists, including measures to prevent and resolve cases related to their safety.
The Media Forum noted a decline in the professional performance of the regional public broadcaster Gagauziya Radio Televizionu, as confirmed by monitoring reports during the electoral campaign. The Forum called on the People s Assembly of Gagauzia, as the broadcaster’s founder, to bring GRT’s activity back into the legal framework.
The resolution also addresses journalists and media institutions, urging them to cover the European Union accession process in depth, monitor the implementation of reforms and the use of public funds, critically assess the actions of authorities without resorting to self censorship, and publicly report any obstruction of journalistic activity.
The Media Forum remains the most representative event of the journalistic community in the Republic of Moldova, providing a platform to discuss challenges faced by media professionals and to identify solutions that strengthen fair competition and editorial independence. The Press Council organizes the Forum annually in partnership with the Association of Independent Press, the Center for Independent Journalism, and the Association of Electronic Press.
The tenth edition of the Media Forum took place in Chisinau on December 8 and 9, 2025, and brought together more than 230 journalists, editors, media managers, national and international experts, as well as representatives of public authorities and development partners.
The European Union, International Media Support of Denmark, the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom of Germany, the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, the German Agency for International Cooperation, the Soros Moldova Foundation, and DW Akademie of Germany supported Media Forum 2025.