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Newspapers, magazines
Journalism and publications
ENGLISH

What it means to be a journalist for everyone,
not for the drawer
by Prof. Lucian Ioan LIVESCU PhD

My grandfather Beppo once told me that, when he was a
child, the press came to the stands of the big hotels, to the tobacco kiosks, and
to the newspaper and magazines kiosks on the street. Subscribers received
the publications at home.
The kiosks, small metal, and glass pavilions were usually placed on
the sidewalks of major boulevards but also on neighborhood streets in
populated areas. Their windows were covered with newspapers and
magazines. Closer to our days, the sellers urge you to buy "pocket" books
accompanied by CDs.
My grandfather liked to buy the “Gazeta” Mathematics Magazine
and the Physics one on Friday afternoons - brochures for the National
Competitions where, year after year, he entered his name among the "solvers".
Also, from those kiosks he brought me magazines in French, making
my childhood happy: « Pif, le chien », « Vaillant », but also Arici Pogonici,
Luminita, later Cutezatorii. He knew how to choose.
Grandpa Beppo used to browse them impatiently all the way home.
He told me that he couldn't forget the smell of the new ink of the printed paper.
His magazine collection was a whole world for me.
Grandfather Beppo, along with my parents, gave me the joy of
reading as a teenager, then as a young student, »Scanteia Tineretului»,
«Romania Literara», «Flacara», «Cinema» and other papers.
At that time, he did not imagine that the little reader would later
become a career professional journalist, involved in the life of the