Brîndușa Armanca

Brînduşa Armanca (born 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.

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