Alina Turcanu

Alina Țurcanu is project coordinator at the Center for Investigative Journalism and editor of the TV program “Pur și Simplu” (Pure and Simple), produced by Free Radio Europe.

Alina was previously editor-in-chief of the newspaper Adevărul Moldova. Her most famous investigative story is “Plahotniuc, The Man with Dual Identity” (2011) for which she was awarded the special prize of the Independent Journalism Center and of the Press Freedom Committee. In 2006 and in 2014, Alina was designated one of the best ten journalists of the year, in the print media category.

She is member of the Press Council and trainer at the Advanced School of Journalism. Alina Țurcanu has been in the media since 1996 and has worked at the publications Timpul, Jurnal de Chișinău, Flux, for the TV station Pro TV Chișinău and Moldpres Agency.