New awards in the track record of the School of Advanced Journalism (SAJ). SAJ graduates Dorin Galben and Ana Maria Veverita received awards at the Gala of Young Journalists, becoming two of the 12 best young journalists in the country. The event was organized by the Young Journalist Center of Moldova.
 

Ana-Maria Veverita, 2015 graduate, is a freelance journalist writing for Ziarul de Garda newspaper, Obiectivul European supplement published by the Association of Independent Press, and Natura magazine. She participated in the competition with an interview, a journalistic report and an investigation, on which, she says, she worked while still being an SAJ student, too.

 

“A big part of the works in the competition was conceived and even written during studies at the School of Advanced Journalism, and those studies meant a lot of time, dedication and work. These works included a heart-to-heart interview with priest Octavian Mosin, a journalistic report about the young people who choose to study in a different country than the one where they were born, and an investigation about a former judge “sentenced” to freedom for fraud. The School of Journalism teaches you to be a journalist, but whether you make use of this knowledge and become a good journalist depends on you,” Ana-Maria Veverita said.

 

Dorin Galben has been working for the daily Timpul since 2013, when he graduated from the SAJ, and the award is the result of his work in print press. The reporter was especially noticed due to his journalistic reports, in which he tries to cover less usual topics, which makes them interesting for readers.

 

“I participated in the Gala of Young Journalists with three journalistic reports that I care about the most. The first one tells about the sad story of two old people who are waiting for their death but, as they say, it doesn’t come. The second is about two beggars who earn up to two thousand lei daily from begging. The third, a material from my 2015 collection, is a story where I was a street sweeper for a day and am telling what this work actually means and who the people behind the brooms are.”

 

The Gala of Young Journalists is not the only event where SAJ students received awards. Recently, Dorin Galben and a student of the current class, Lia Ciutac, have been among the eight awardees of the “Awards for Environment Journalism” contest organized by the Association of Environment Journalists and Ecotourism of Moldova. The two reporters won in the category of print and online press due to the articles they had published in the Timpul newspaper.