# Unimedia

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{{Short description|Moldovan news site}}
{{about|a Moldovan news site|the defunct French Canadian media group|Unimédia}}
{{Infobox website
| name = Unimedia
| url = {{URL|http://www.unimedia.info/}}
| commercial = yes
| type = [News site](/source/News_site)
| founded = 2007
| owner = [Miraza Srl](/source/Miraza_Srl)
| founder = {{Unbulleted list|Tudor Darie|Dumitru Ciorici|Vasile Galușca|Sergiu Gălușca}}
}}

'''Unimedia''' is a [Moldova](/source/Moldova)n [news site](/source/news_site). It was founded in 2007 by Tudor Darie, Dumitru Ciorici, Vasile Galușca and Sergiu Gălușca. As of March 2013, they claim to have 120,500 daily visits and 500,000 daily page views.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://windowonthemedia.com/2008/12/unimedia-md-moldova/ |title=Unimedia.md: Moldova's answer to the post-Soviet media gloom in Window on the Media, December 2008 |publisher=Windowonthemedia.com |date=2008-12-16 |access-date=2011-12-25}}</ref> On 30 June 2009, [Radio Free Europe](/source/Radio_Free_Europe%2FRadio_Liberty) described it as "a largely pro-opposition media outlet", the Moldovan opposition back then being composed by the parties opposed to the [Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova](/source/Party_of_Communists_of_the_Republic_of_Moldova) and to [Vladimir Voronin](/source/Vladimir_Voronin).<ref name="Redio Free Europe 2009 report" />

Unimedia was integrated to New Media Group in January 2008.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://nmg.md/index.php?mod=news&id=24 |title=New Media Group a preluat portalul de ştiri UNIMEDIA |publisher=Nmg.md |access-date=2011-12-25 |archive-date=2012-01-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120128225339/http://nmg.md/index.php?mod=news&id=24 |url-status=dead }}</ref> After, in January 2010, Unimedia was transferred to Interact Media.

==Political pressure==
In April 2008, Unimedia was summoned to surrender the IP addresses of commentators to the authorities. Unimedia refused, arguing that IP addresses were only stored for a period of 10 days.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://nmg.md/index.php?mod=news&id=27 |title=UNIMEDIA nu şi-a trădat vizitatorii! |publisher=Nmg.md |date=2008-01-15 |access-date=2011-12-25 |archive-date=2012-01-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120128230352/http://www.nmg.md/index.php?mod=news&id=27 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="BBC Romanian 2008">{{cite web|last=Canțîr|first=Alexandru|title=Unimedia nu dezvăluie identitatea unor forumiști|url=https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&ie=UTF8&u=http://www.bbc.co.uk/romanian/moldova/story/2008/04/080421_unimedia_forumisti.shtml|work=[BBC Romanian](/source/BBC_Romanian)|access-date=27 November 2011|date=21 April 2008}}</ref> June 2008 saw reports of NGO protests against what was called the unjustified seizure of computer equipment.<ref>{{cite web|title=ONG de media din Moldova și-au exprimat protestul față de sechestrarea calculatoarelor unor forumiști ce și-au expus opinia pe Internet|url=https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ro&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.interlic.md%2F2008-06-12%2F5346-5346.html%3Fprint|work=Interlic News Agency|access-date=27 November 2011|date=12 June 2008}}</ref> In the run-up to July 2009 elections, it was reported that Unimedia and its parent company had been issued warnings by Moldovan authorities regarding visitor messages that were alleged to be a "call to violence and mass disorder, a call to removal and change of the constitutional system," as reported by [Oliver Vujović](/source/Oliver_Vujovi%C4%87) of the [South East Europe Media Organisation](/source/South_East_Europe_Media_Organisation) in the Bulgarian newspaper ''[The Sofia Echo](/source/The_Sofia_Echo)''.<ref name="Redio Free Europe 2009 report">{{cite web|title=Moldovan Opposition Website Threatened With Closure|url=https://www.rferl.org/a/Moldovan_Opposition_Website_Threatened_With_Closure/1766241.html|work=[Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty](/source/Radio_Free_Europe%2FRadio_Liberty)|access-date=30 June 2009|date=30 June 2009}}</ref><ref name="Sofia Echo 2009 report">{{cite news|title=Deep concern about Moldova media incidents|url=http://www.thesofiaecho.com/2009/07/24/760318_deep-concern-about-moldova-media-incidents|access-date=27 November 2011|newspaper=[The Sofia Echo](/source/The_Sofia_Echo)|date=24 July 2009|author=Oliver Vujović|author-link=Oliver Vujović}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.unimedia.info/ Homepage] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130302040039/http://unimedia.info/ |date=2013-03-02 }}

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