and tone down their negative reporting of the government. Their concern was echoed by a variety of organizations including the Open Society Foundations. Paper's management denied the charges. In the case of România liberă, this protest took the form of a statement in the edition of 13 September 2004, in which the newspaper's editors protested interference by WAZ. They accused their German ownership of having no concern for the public interest, and accused Klaus Overbeck in particular of trying to dictate to them what they could print in the newspaper. At the time of purchase WAZ had promised to confine themselves to the business side of the newspaper and stay out of editorial matters. The paper has published The New York Times International Weekly on Fridays for some tine beginning with 2009. This eight-page supplement featured a selection of English-language articles from The New York Times. In 2010 WAZ left the Romanian market and its shares at România liberă, leaving businessman Dan Adamescu as single share holder of Medien Holding Group. References External links 1877 establishments in Romania Publications established in 1877 1943 establishments in Romania Publications established in 1943 Communist newspapers Newspapers published in Bucharest Romanian Communist Party Romanian-language newspapers Underground press in World War II Romanian news websites