Op-Ed: These are the real stakes of running an English - language media business in a country like Romania

Freedom. There you have it. An answer in the first sentence. But do read on to understand how a small, niche English online newspaper from Romania makes an impact and what that means to the world.

Almost 10 years ago when we started Romania-Insider.com, we didn’t fully realize its power. We wanted to write for the foreigners who lived in Romania - which is in itself a powerful, even if small, niche: they are CEOs of large companies, they move things, make policies, manage hundreds of thousands of people, control industry segments. They are investors in foreign-owned businesses (our own business is partially foreign-owned; two out of our three shareholders are foreigners). These people read us, sometimes from even before being officially named CEOs in Romania.