ZF Expert, the newspaper made by readers

Today’s edition of Ziarul Financiar has been made by five of its readers, each of them an expert in their own field. Ionut Dumitru, chief analyst at Raiffeisen Bank, Razvan Pasol, president of the brokerage company Intercapital Invest, Ruxandra Stoian, human resources manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Titus Corlatean, general secretary of PSD (Social Democrat Party), and Bogdan Andriescu, general manager of the EOS Risq insurance broker, yesterday took part in ZF’s daily editorial meeting. Together with journalists, the experts decided on which articles should be published and debated the most important topics of the day. The front page made by the experts, ZF Expert, is the second page of today’s newspaper. The experts decided that the most important piece of news of the day was UPC manager’s opinion on the development of the telecommunication market this year – “a fierce competition”. Other topics covered include the World Bank’s report on the risk of Romania’s economy overheating as well as the 1-hour strike that took place yesterday at the BSE. The strike was in protest against tax irregularities on the profit derived from share transactions. The fact that the largest domestic bank, BCR has cut the interest for loans in foreign currency, as part of the new Erste strategy, was also discussed. Besides discussing which topics should go into today’s paper, ZF guests at yesterday’s meeting also discussed that the most significant current economic trends are the migration of employees and the shortage of personnel.