A group of journalists from Moldova will pay next week a fact-finding visit to the Romanian Pres Club, a professional, non-governmental organization from Romania related to mass media activity. The journalists’ aim is to familiarize themselves with the activity of this Romanian professional media organization that promotes the idea of freedom of press, with a view to creating a press Club in Moldova. Requested by Info-Prim Neo, founder director of the national daily “Timpul de dimineata”, Constantin Tanase, stated that he is pleads for creating an institutionalized organization that would frame a deontological Code and try gathering under the same umbrella the journalists from all the means of communication en masse, regardless of the political color. The publicist says that formally Moldova has organizations that represent the journalists, but in reality mass-media continues to stay divided into numerous teams, groups, subgroups, which are in permanent rivalry. According to Constantin Tanase, the idea of such a club appeared long ago, given a stringent necessity of creating such an organization that would show solidarity with the journalists under the signs of the eternal values of the press, as providing information and defending citizens’ rights. Publicist Nicolae Negru told Info-Prim Neo he is absolutely positive about a press club, where journalists could settle a lot of issues. According to Negru, media managers, opinion leaders and other persons in the field of different political colors could join this organization. The assembling has to take place according to the principles of the professional deontology and freedom of press. In the publicist’s opinion there is someone that does not allow the Moldovan press to be independent and stay together, otherwise the press Club would have emerged long ago. Director of “Jurnal de Chisinau” publication, Val Butnaru, thinks it is needed a press Club that would become an institution authorities take into account, according to the exemplar from Bucharest. Chief editor of “Saptamana” weekly, Viorel Mihail, is for the creation of a non-politicized club that would defend the journalists’ interests. Head of the Association of Electronic Media (APEL), Alexandru Dorogan, considers that the foundation of such a club became an imperious necessity, as the press is more constrained today than ever. Dorogan asserts that anyone can be a member of the club, as long as they respect the ethical code of the press. Director executive of the Independent Press Association Petru Macovei told Info-Prim Neo he does not believe much in such a club, in case it will become a nongovernmental organization and will deal with training and defending the journalists’ rights, because there are already such organizations having these objectives. Hence, such association will not improve the solidarity of the press, Macovei says. On the other hand, Macovei sees this organization as a club of discussions, of taking attitudes towards the activities that are provided, events, cases of intimidation, and pressures on the press exerted by the authorities. This club, in Macovei’s opinion, must be representative and become a tribune for discussions. At the same time, Petru Macovei says that in Romania the press is much more united, even if it is divided into camps. When pressures on freedom of expression or intimidation cases occur, the Romanian Press Club turns out to be an efficient structure, reacting very toughly to the injustices towards their colleagues.