Unimedia

{{about|a Moldovan news site|the defunct French Canadian media group|Unimédia}}

{{Infobox website

| name = Unimedia

| url = {{URL|http://www.unimedia.info/}}

| commercial = yes

| type = News site

| founded = 2007

| owner = Miraza Srl

| founder = {{Unbulleted list|Tudor Darie|Dumitru Ciorici|Vasile Galușca|Sergiu Gălușca}}

}}

Unimedia is a Moldovan news site. It was founded in 2007 by Tudor Darie, Dumitru Ciorici, Vasile Galușca and Sergiu Gălușca. As of March 2013, they claim to have 120,500 daily visits and 500,000 daily page views.{{cite web|url=http://windowonthemedia.com/2008/12/unimedia-md-moldova/ |title=Unimedia.md: Moldova's answer to the post-Soviet media gloom in Window on the Media, December 2008 |publisher=Windowonthemedia.com |date=2008-12-16 |access-date=2011-12-25}} On 30 June 2009, Radio Free Europe described it as "a largely pro-opposition media outlet", the Moldovan opposition back then being composed by the parties opposed to the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova and to Vladimir Voronin.

Unimedia was integrated to New Media Group in January 2008.{{cite web |url=http://nmg.md/index.php?mod=news&id=24 |title=New Media Group a preluat portalul de ştiri UNIMEDIA |publisher=Nmg.md |access-date=2011-12-25 |archive-date=2012-01-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120128225339/http://nmg.md/index.php?mod=news&id=24 |url-status=dead }} After, in January 2010, Unimedia was transferred to Interact Media.

Political pressure

In April 2008, Unimedia was summoned to surrender the IP addresses of commentators to the authorities. Unimedia refused, arguing that IP addresses were only stored for a period of 10 days.{{cite web|url=http://nmg.md/index.php?mod=news&id=27 |title=UNIMEDIA nu şi-a trădat vizitatorii! |publisher=Nmg.md |date=2008-01-15 |access-date=2011-12-25}}{{cite web|last=Canțîr|first=Alexandru|title=Unimedia nu dezvăluie identitatea unor forumiști|url=https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&ie=UTF8&u=http://www.bbc.co.uk/romanian/moldova/story/2008/04/080421_unimedia_forumisti.shtml|work=BBC Romanian|access-date=27 November 2011|date=21 April 2008}} June 2008 saw reports of NGO protests against what was called the unjustified seizure of computer equipment.{{cite web|title=ONG de media din Moldova și-au exprimat protestul față de sechestrarea calculatoarelor unor forumiști ce și-au expus opinia pe Internet|url=https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ro&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.interlic.md%2F2008-06-12%2F5346-5346.html%3Fprint|work=Interlic News Agency|access-date=27 November 2011|date=12 June 2008}} In the run-up to July 2009 elections, it was reported that Unimedia and its parent company had been issued warnings by Moldovan authorities regarding visitor messages that were alleged to be a "call to violence and mass disorder, a call to removal and change of the constitutional system," as reported by Oliver Vujović of the South East Europe Media Organisation in the Bulgarian newspaper The Sofia Echo.{{cite web|title=Moldovan Opposition Website Threatened With Closure|url=http://www.rferl.org/content/Moldovan_Opposition_Website_Threatened_With_Closure/1766241.html|work=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty|access-date=30 June 2009|date=30 June 2009}}{{cite news|title=Deep concern about Moldova media incidents|url=http://www.thesofiaecho.com/2009/07/24/760318_deep-concern-about-moldova-media-incidents|access-date=27 November 2011|newspaper=The Sofia Echo|date=24 July 2009|author=Oliver Vujović|author-link=Oliver Vujović}}

References

External links

[http://www.unimedia.info/ Homepage]

Category:Companies of Moldova

Category:Mass media companies established in 2007

Category:2007 establishments in Moldova

Category:Moldovan news websites