Ziarul de Gardă

Alina Mazureac, (a.k.a. Alina Radu) born on August 24, 1967, is a Moldovan journalist with more than 30 years of experience in the press. She is the executive director of Ziarul de Gardă and the director of "Media Guard", an organization active in the field of journalism, media ownership transparency, access to information for public interest.  

She graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of the Chișinău State University, and later went on study visits to more than 50 countries on 5 continents. She started her career in 1989 on the news program "Mesager" on National Television. Later she worked for Catalan TV, the "Flux" press group and the IDIS "Viitorul" organization. In 2004 she co founded Ziarul de Gardă, the first investigative newspaper in Moldova. 

She has been training journalists since 2003 at the School of Advanced Journalism Studies of the Independent Journalism Center and at training programmes organized for journalists by UNICEF, UNDP; UN WOMEN, Independent Journalism Center, Independent Press Association, and Amnesty International. She holds numerous awards in the field of journalism and has worked with various media outlets abroad on cross-border investigations.

Aneta Grosu is a journalist and co-founder of "Ziarul de Gardă". She is a journalist with over 40 years of experience. She graduated from the Faculty of Philology, Journalism Department of the State University of Moldova in 1979.

Her first job was at State Television, in the News Department. She was part of the team that launched the first news program of Independent Moldova - "Mesager". Later, she worked at the first Independent Television Station - "Catalan". She was employed at the newspapers "Flux" and "Accente", after which she founded "Ziarul de Gardă", becoming its editor-in-chief. Aneta Grosu has won several national and international journalism awards over the years. In 2009, together with a number of other journalists, she was awarded the Order of the Republic" in high appreciation of outstanding merits in asserting freedom of expression, for substantial contribution to the process of national revival and promotion of democracy and general human values". In 2014 she was decorated by Romanian President Traian Băsescu with the National Order "For Merit" rank of Officer.

Aneta Grosu was the president of the Association of Independent Tv Journalists "V.I.P.", later renamed into the Association "Media Guard", of which she is still a member. Aneta Grosu was editor-in-chief of Ziarul de Gardă until November 2021. Later she became a reporter and ombudswoman for the readers of the publication.

Victor Moșneag is an investigative journalist with more than 15 years of experience in the media. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Journalism and Communication at the State University of Moldova. He started as a reporter at Ziarul de Gardă, a publication specialising in investigative and anti-corruption cases. 

Between May and October 2010, he was editor and senior editor of the Sports Department at Publika TV, and later returned to Ziarul de Gardă. From 2012 until 2021 he held the position of deputy editor-in-chief, and since November 2021 he has been coordinating ZdG's editorial work from the position of editor-in-chief.

Victor Moșneag has been awarded over the years by several organizations for his investigative reporting and reporting on corruption. He has also been named by the Independent Press Association and the Independent Journalism Center several times as one of the best journalists of the year in Moldova.

Victor Moșneag is a member of the Media-Guard Association.