SLOGAN:

"For a professional, unbiased and strong media"

MISSION:

To contribute to the sustainable development of independent media by strengthening professional and financial capacities, improving public policy frameworks, digitalization, and enhancing the quality of journalistic content.

VALUES:

Independence: financial and editorial, freedom of expression and access to information.

Professionalism: professional and technical skills, ethics and professional standards, editorial and design quality.

Modernisation: adaptability to new conditions, digitisation, technological convergence. 

OBJECTIVES/PRIORITIES:

- Strengthening leadership in media sector advocacy efforts;

- Strengthening the economic and institutional capacities of local journalism;

- Promoting adherence to professional ethics and deontology among API members and potential members;

- Supporting the adaptation of the journalistic community to new digital realities;

- Enhancing the institutional image of API and ensuring the long-term sustainability of the Association.

AFFILIATIONS AND PARTNERSHIPS:

API is a member of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN/IFRA);

API is a member of the National Platform of the Eastern Partnership NGO Forum;

API is a member of the Civic Coalition for Free and Fair Elections in the Republic of Moldova;

API is a member of the Civic Initiative for a Clean Parliament of the Republic of Moldova;

API is one of the founders of the Press Council of the Republic of Moldova and provides the Secretariat of this national journalistic self-regulatory structure;

API is a partner of the Independent Journalism Centre of Romania;

API develops partnerships with the most active non-governmental media organizations in Moldova, collaborates with other national and regional associative structures.

API is a resource organisation for European and international structures on issues concerning freedom of the press and the media situation in the Republic of Moldova;

API collaborates with NGOs from Romania, Poland, the Netherlands, Ukraine, Estonia, Sweden, Latvia, Denmark, the UK and other countries;

API is open for new partnerships. 

The API logo it is a combination of bright colours and symbols representative of the journalism community. It combines blue in warmer and cooler shades to show the radio waves on the map of the Republic of Moldova and a ‘hot’ red colour that highlights the dot on the ‘i’.

More information about API can be found in the brochure below.