MEANS OF JOURNALISTIC INVESTIGATION THE PHENOMENON OF MEDIA CONVERGENCE IN THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA: CONDITIONS OF AFFIRMATION AND FORMS OF MANIFESTATION Maria GUGULAN1 1Lecturer, State University of Moldova, Republic of Moldova Corresponding author:
[email protected] Abstract convergent journalism from a historical prospect, The media convergence is a phenomenon that has which is the purpose of this paper, has doubtless recently occurred in the local media. The first step toward topicality and importance, as it scientifically convergence – the development of online environment – highlights the processes that take place in this field was made in ‘2000, when the information technologies entered the circuit and the Internet extended on the media and its trends of development. market. The first forms of convergence have occurred only in 2010, when the press holdings Jurnal Trust Media and 2. EVOLUTION OF CONVERGENT General Media Grup SRL were launched. Although we may already speak about a certain level of media convergence JOURNALISM IN THE REPUBLIC OF in the local massmedia, the various collaborations between MOLDOVA press institutions aim mainly at the personal interests of their owners of financiers, who, usually, come from the political or business field and have the purpose to manipulate or to get Unlike the Western countries, where the certain benefits. From this prospect, the phenomenon of phenomenon of media convergence occurred in convergence identifies itself with another nationally and the ‘90s, in the Republic of Moldova this internationally well-known phenomenon – the concentration of media property, limiting the pluralism of opinions and weakening phenomenon happened later, in ‘2000, when the the quality of the journalistic content.