A group of foreign experts in journalistic ethics will pay a fact-finding visit to Chisinau on April 23-27 at the invitation of the Press Council of Moldova, IPN reports.

The group consisting of 12 experts from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Romania, and Estonia comes to Moldova as part of a project that is supported financially by East East Beyond Borders Program of Soros Foundation Moldova. The project envisions regional dialogue and experience exchange in journalistic ethics and social responsibility of the mass media.

Press Council secretary Petru Macovei said that two more fact-finding visits had been pair earlier within this project to Bulgaria, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. They involved members of the Press Council of Moldova and representatives of public institutions regulating the activity of the mass media, including the Broadcasting Coordination Council and the Parliament’s commission on culture, education, sport and mass media.

The program of the visit to Moldova includes meetings and discussions with the head and members of the commission on culture, education, sport and mass media and of the Broadcasting Coordination Council, with students of the Faculty of Journalism of the State University of Moldova and of the School of Advanced Journalism. On April 26, the experts will take part in a regional roundtable meeting that will center on the observance of the journalist’s professional deontological norms in the online press, social responsibility of the mass media, and other issues.

Among the invitees who will arrive in Chisinau are the chairman of the Press Council of Estonia Eve Rohtla and the chairman of the Press Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina Dario Novalic.