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Valeriu Saharneanu (born 3 August 1952) is a journalist from the Republic of Moldova. He has been the head of the Union of Journalists of Moldova since 1994.

Valeriu (Vladimir) Saharneanu was born on 3 August 1952 in Cuizăuca, Rezina District, where he completed his elementary studies (1959–1969). He has a degree in philology from the Journalism Department at Moldova's State University, and from the Journalism Department at the Superior School of Political Science in Sankt-Petersburg.^{[citation needed]} He attended the Moldova State University (1970–1975) and the Faculty of Journalism of the Saint Petersburg State University (1987–1989).^{[citation needed]} He attended also courses in Romania (1993), Berlin (1995), Brussels (1996), Paris (1998), Thessaloniki (1999), Strasbourg (2002), Cairo (2004), Norway (2005), the United States (2006).^{[citation needed]}

He worked as editor (1975–1987), deputy editor in chief (1989–1991), editor in chief (1991–1994) at TeleRadio-Moldova.^{[citation needed]} During the 1994 parliamentary election, Saharneanu was attacked at the entrance of the building where he lived and was sick for three months. Soon, he lost his job at TeleRadio-Moldova and his wife, Maria Bulat-Saharneanu, lost her job at "Femeia Moldovei" magazine.^{[citation needed]}

Saharneanu is co-founder and director of Euronova Media Group (the Vocea Basarabiei radio station, TV Euronova, and TV Albasat).^[1] In 2001, Saharneanu founded Gazeta Românească [The Romanian Gazette], a weekly magazine sold in Moldova that compiled articles from major Romanian media outlets. The project failed primarily because of financial reasons.^{[citation needed]}

He has been the head of the Union of Journalists of Moldova (Romanian: Uniunea Jurnaliştilor din Moldova) since 1994.^{[citation needed]} On 25 January 2004, at a meeting of an opposition party in Chişinău, officials restricted journalistic activities.^{[citation needed]} As president of the Moldovan Journalists Union, Saharneanu gave a speech at the meeting on the necessity to defend media independence and freedoms.^{[citation needed]} He was summoned by the police and charged with disturbing the public order. A date for his trial was immediately established.^[2]

In 2005, Saharneanu was a founding member of the Democratic Forum of Romanians in Moldova (Romanian: Forumul Democrat al Românilor din Republica Moldova).^{[citation needed]}

In January 2010, as many as 14 people put forward their candidacies for the post of chairman of TeleRadio-Moldova, of whom Constantin Marin got five votes, journalist Valentina Ursu three and Saharneanu, one vote.^[3]

• Order of the Republic (2009)^[4]
• Ordinul României "Order for Merit", grad Comandor (2000)^{[citation needed]}
• "Om Emerit" (1991)^{[citation needed]}
• "Jurnalist emerit al Republicii Moldova" (1991)^{[citation needed]}

• Vocea Basarabiei

• voceabasarabiei.net
• Personal blog Archived 2010-02-20 at the Wayback Machine
• www.ujm.orc.md^{[permanent dead link‍]}