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Romnia LiberaRomnia Liberă is one of the leading newspapers in Romania. Based in Bucharest, the Romanian-language daily has a paid daily circulation of 40,000. During the Communist era it was second to Scnteia as a Romanian daily concentrating more on local issues than on national and international news and was the only Romanian newspaper allowed to publish full-page advertisement sections. In 1990, shortly after the Romanian Revolution of 1989 but before the rise of independent television in Romania, its circulation briefly rose as high as 1.5 million. http://www.unesco.org/courier/2000_02/uk/dossier/txt12.htm However, those numbers rapidly fell off and in 2000 the paper was purchased by the German company Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ). Echoing complaints of journalists at rival daily Evenimentul Zilei, which is owned by the Swiss press trust Ringier, Romnia Liberă journalists complained in September 2004 that foreign owners are telling them them to lessen political coverage and tone down their negative reporting of the government. Their concern has been echoed by a variety of organizations including the Open Society Foundation. http://business-romania.blogspot.com/2004/09/press-freedom-in-romania.html Management has denied the charges. http://www.seeurope.net/en/Story.php?StoryID=53194&LangID=1 In the case of Romnia Liberă, this protest took the form of a statement in the edition of September 13, 2004, in which the newspaper's editors protested interference by WAZ. They accused their German ownership of having no concern for the public interest, and accused Klaus Overbeck in particular of trying to dictate to them what they could print in the newspaper. At the time of purchase WAZ promised to confine themselves to the business side of the newspaper and stay out of editorial matters. http://www.paginiromanesti.com/2004_09/Romania/Romania%20libera%20sub%20asaltul%20Puterii%20de%20la%20Bucuresti.html External links
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