Adevarul

Romania goes off the rails

by Craig Turp September 22, 2009 Romania

 Monday’s railway accident in south-western Romania, in which an acelerat train derailed while travelling at 100km, injuring 15 people but miraculoulsy causing no fatalities, has quickly become the country’s most discussed story, with many people – political commentators and ordinary citizens alike – seeing it as the embodiment of all that has gone wrong in [...]

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Notes on the sales figures of Romanian ‘quality’ newspapers

by Craig Turp June 23, 2009 Business

 Firstly, it should be noted that in any other country these newspapers, classified ‘quality’ in Romania, would be called mid-market. Romania has no genuine quality newspapers, leaving aside the niche, business dailies. Adevarul, the clear market leader (as it bloody well should be, given the money that’s been thrown at it in promotions and marketing) [...]

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A Bizarre Editorial Decision

by Craig Turp June 2, 2009 Media

 Incredible but true. Adevarul, in its own words Romania’s ‘leading quality newspaper’ yesterday announced that it would ‘distance itself from politics‘ in the run up to Sunday’s European elections. Utterly bizarre. In a country where political reporting is basically useless, you would expect a self-entitled ‘quality’ to try and stand out from the pack with [...]

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Bram Stocker’s Dracula

by Craig Turp February 25, 2009 Media

 We never did much rate Bram Stoker’s book Dracula, so we are keen to see if Bram Stocker’s is any better. Oh yes, in a glorious typo moment, according to a TV advert Romanian daily Adevarul is giving away a copy of Bram Stocker’s Dracula tomorrow. And from what we can tell, it looks like [...]

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Pope in ‘Catholic’ Shock

by Craig Turp February 10, 2009 Media

 Just when we had begun to think Adevarul was living up to (its own) hype as the only decent newspaper in Romania (or at least trying to be), it publishes this news story: Cronica Carcotasilor is a rip-off of the Italian show Striscia la notizie. Like anybody who has seen both shows didn’t know that. [...]

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