The Four Romanian Journalist Guilds of the Twentieth Century

Abstract

The present study examines the four journalists’ organizations, called “guilds” („uniuni” in Romanian) that existed from 1919 to 1990. These are associative structures founded in Bucharest, not related to each other by statutory succession / program or patrimony, and each of them was influenced by the political regimes in which they were developed and evolved. The consulted documents – it is about a bibliographic research and a research of social / historical documents, which involved access to the funds of the National Archives of Romania, allowed us to determine who were the founders of these unions, what budgets they had, what activities aimed at professionalizing the profession, etc. It is also important in which political / ideological context they were established and how they managed the relationship with the political Power. Here we will find conformity (servitude) during the authoritarian regimes during the Second World War, but especially after the end of the war, during the communist administrations.