Ekspres
Ekspres is a pro-government weekly, which at the beginning of publication was better known for the frequent changes of managers and chief editors than for the stories that were published. It came to the public's attention at the end of 2016, when it was announced that the owner of the weekly, Goran Veselinović, forbade the publication of an interview with the then Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of Serbia, Zoran Mihajlović. Branko Miljuš, at that time the editor-in-chief of Ekspres, soon resigned, and Veselinović himself told the Cenzolovka portal that he had stopped the interview, but that it was not censorship.
In the weekly, it is difficult to find texts in which they write critically about the government, and especially Aleksandar Vučić.
Ekspres has published, on several occasions, interviews with convicted criminals, including Milorad Ulemek Legija, convicted of murdering Zoran Đinđić, and Sreten Jocić, convicted of incitement to murder. Ekspres published a series of accusations that Jocić made against one of the leaders of the opposition, Dragan Đilas. Lawyers and media experts condemned the publication of these interviews.
Audience Share
0.09%
Ownership Type
Private
Geographic Coverage
National
Content Type
Paid content: 250 RSD per copy (2023)
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Ownership Structure
The publisher of the Ekspres newspaper is the company Publisher, which is 100% owned by Goran Veselinović.
Individual Owner
General Information
Founding Year
2016
Affiliated Interests Founder
The founder and owner of the weekly Ekspres through the company Publisher. He is also the owner of the marketing agency Right, which has changed its name several times over the years. He is closely related to the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, who is his godfather. In an interview broadcast on RTS in 2010, Vučić stated that he worked in Veselinović's Right agency in 2010, which at that time was called Profiler team. Since Vučić's Serbian Progressive Party came to power in 2012, Veselinović's business has become bigger and stronger. His marketing agency Right, which until 2013 was called Block&Connect, prepared the political election campaign in 2012 for the Serbian Progressive Party and the political election campaign of the Serbian Radical Party in 2008, when Vučić was a member of it.
Affiliated Interests Ceo
Before becoming the director of Ekspres and chief editor of the digital edition, Dragana Todorović worked as a PR manager in the marketing agency Right, which is owned by Goran Veselinović. She was also a long-time journalist of the Mondo portal.
Affiliated Interests Editor-In-Chief
Was the editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper Kurir, at a time when the newspaper was controlled by its founder Radisav Raja Rodić. In 2014, Jerinić was also the director of the company Fajter, which was mentioned as one of those interested in buying Politika AD. At that time, the official owner of Fajter was a company of the same name registered in Great Britain, but some media claimed that Radisav Rodić was behind that form.
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