Brîndușa Armanca

Brîndușa Armanca (born 27 October 1954) is a Romanian academic and journalist. She has taught journalism at the Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, West University of Timișoara, and Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu and is the author of six books on journalism. A former manager of TVR Timișoara, she was the editorial director of the Ziua daily in Bucharest, the president of Videovest Association, and board member of Transparency International Romania. From October 2006 she was the director of the Romanian Cultural Institute in Budapest, and from 2010 to 2011 held the presidency of the European Union National Institutes for Culture. In 2007 Armanca won a lawsuit against TVR for terminating her employment after disagreements about her right to free expression, after a two-year legal process. Armanca has received the Cultural Award of the Romanian Academy, as well as with the Distinction of the Hungarian Ministry of Culture for cultural diplomacy.

Life

Brîndușa Armanca was born in 1954 in Câmpulung Moldovenesc. She studied philology at the West University of Timișoara from 1973 to 1979 and obtained a PhD from the University of Bucharest in 2005.[1] She has taught journalism at the Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, West University of Timișoara, and Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, and is the author of six books on journalism.[2]

A former manager of TVR Timișoara (1997–2004),[3] a regional studio of the public television, she was the editorial director of the Ziua daily in Bucharest,[4] the president of Videovest Association, and board member of Transparency International Romania.[5] Armanca holds many awards for TV documentaries and journalism.[6] From October 2006 she is the director of the Romanian Cultural Institute in Budapest,[6] and from 2010 to 2011 held the presidency of the European Union National Institutes for Culture.[7] Armanca is a member of the Writers’ Union of Romania [8] Her books include writing about journalism and the media, such as Regional Television in Romania (2002), Media culpa (2006), Learn to Win (2006), and The Border-Crashers. Some of her books have been translated in Hungarian.[9]

She has received the Cultural Award of the Romanian Academy, as well as with the Distinction of the Hungarian Ministry of Culture for cultural diplomacy.[9]

Lawsuit against TVR

In August 2007, after a two-year legal battle Armanca won her lawsuit against TVR. Armanca had been fired from TVR after publicly arguing that TVR's terms of employment violated the constitution and European Convention on Human Rights. After this incident the US State Department reported that media watchdog groups had called for a reconsideration of state TV's policies which had been found to be restricting the right of its employees to freely express themselves and interfering with the public nature of the TVR as an institution. TVR were forced to rehire Armanca as a producer.[10][3]

References

  1. ^ "Brîndușa Armanca's CV" (PDF) (in Romanian). Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Department of Modern Languages and Social and Human Sciences.
  2. ^ "Departamentul de limbi moderne și științe socio-umane - Facultatea de Științe Umaniste și Sociale - Facultăți - Universitatea "Aurel Vlaicu" din Arad". www.uav.ro (in Romanian). Archived from the original on 9 November 2018. Retrieved 17 April 2025.
  3. ^ a b "Brîndușa Armanca a fost reangajată de TVR". Cotidianul. Archived from the original on 18 May 2009. Retrieved 19 February 2010.
  4. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). www.icahdq.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 June 2010. Retrieved 19 February 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. ^ "Scrisoare deschisă către Doamna Doina Cornea (De Brîndușa Armanca)". HotNews. Archived from the original on 17 April 2016. Retrieved 19 February 2010.
  6. ^ a b "Brindusa Armanca — SSRC". mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org. Archived from the original on 22 February 2012. Retrieved 2 August 2012.
  7. ^ "Brindusa Armanca a magyarországi EUNIC új elnöke". Kultúra.hu (in Hungarian). Ministry of National Resources. 1 October 2010. Archived from the original on 22 March 2012. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
  8. ^ "Mentor Award for Educational Excellence | The Community Foundation". pentrucomunitate.ro. Retrieved 17 April 2025.
  9. ^ a b "Brindusa Armanca: Pinocchio's Army. How We Lie to the People through Television?". 19 May 2022. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
  10. ^ "Romania". U.S. Department of State. Retrieved 17 April 2025.
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