Romanian journalist appointed Euronews senior editor

Romanian journalist appointed Euronews senior editor

BRUSSELS, April 16 /UKRINFORM/. Romanian journalist Lucian Sarb has been appointed new director of Euronews’s news and programmes room. The decision to this effect was made by the Euronews Executive Board, UKRINFORM’s own correspondent reports.

Journalist Lucian Sarb, aged 41, will join Euronews on May 4, as head of editorial staff. He will lead an editorial staff composed of 350 journalists, making up eight linguistic teams of Euronews. The channel broadcasts simultaneously into German, English, Arabic, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Russian, and as of January 2010, it will also broadcast in Turkish.

Lucian Sarb started its journalistic career in 1994, at the Romanian Television. He has had an important role in the development of the cooperation between Euronews and TVR, which led, to the launch, in 2004, of the first daily news broadcast in the Romanian language, which is broadcast on the second channel of the public television. Currently, Lucian Sarb is editorial director of The Money Channel, part of Realitatea-Catavencu trust. After 2006, he has participated in the creation and development of the first economic and financial TV channel in Romania.

Source:  bsanna-news.ukrinform.ua, 16.04.2009