Kurir.rs
Kurir.rs was part of the largest media group in the Balkans - Adria Media Group (AMG) - until this group merged with Mondo Inc on August 1, 2023. Mondo Inc is owned by Igor Žeželj, who has been the owner of AMG since January 2019. Before Žeželj, the owner of the AMG company was Aleksandar Rodić.
In the beginning, the daily production of news and articles on the portal was based on the printed edition of Kurir, but in the meantime the site grew into a multimedia digital platform with a combination of its own content, texts from the printed edition and video content from Kurir TV, cable television, which was also owned by Adria Media Group, and with merger it became the property of Mondo Inc.
The editorial policy follows the sensationalist and tabloid rhetoric of the printed edition, and the same editorial team manages the printed and digital editions of Kurir, which are parts of the so-called integrated editorial office.
According to Gemius data, Kurir.rs has the largest share of visits among online media in Serbia (17 percent), while it is in third place according to the average daily number of visitors (data for July 2023).
Kurir.rs has 860,000 followers on Facebook, 124,000 on Instagram, and 100,000 on Twitter.
Adria Media Group, which was the owner of Kurir, received about 32.5 million dinars (approximately 320,000 USD) for 63 projects from 2019 to 2022 in calls for the co-financing of media content from state institutions and local self-government bodies. Most of the projects (eight) were received from the City of Belgrade, which awarded Adria Media Group a total of around 10 million dinars (or 91,450 USD) of state monies.
In the report of the Press Council, the category of online media includes only media that have an exclusively digital edition, so Kurir.rs is not managed as a separate online edition.
Audience Share
18.20%
Ownership Type
Private
Geographic Coverage
International
Content Type
Free
Media Companies / Groups
Mondo Inc
Ownership Structure
Kurir’s website is published by Mondo Inc, a company whose ultimate owner is Igor Žeželj.
Until August 1, 2023, the publisher of the Kurir was Adria Media Group (AMG), dissolved due to the merger agreement with Mondo Inc. This agreement stipulates that all rights, obligations, and assets of AMG are transferred to the ownership of Mondo Inc. and that upon the entry into force of this agreement, AMG ceases to exist as a legal entity.
According to the Business Registers Agency, the owner of Mondo Inc. is Wireless Media. Wireless Media is owned by Mobil Media, whose 100% owner is Igor Žeželj.
Individual Owner
General Information
Founding Year
2009
Affiliated Interests Founder
the son of Radisav Rodić, the founder of the Kurir tabloid. He has been present on the media scene since 2009, when he took over the management of the daily newspaper Kurir after his father's arrest.
In 2014, Aleksandar Rodić expanded his business activities by purchasing the Adria Media Group, the largest media business group in the Balkans, which at the time published, among others, the magazines Elle, National Geographic, Newsweek, Cosmopolitan and Men's Health.
Since its establishment, Kurir has changed its editorial policy several times, but it has mostly remained the voice of the ruling party. Under the leadership of Aleksandar Rodić, the editorial policy was in favour of the Democrats (then the ruling party). After the Democratic Party lost the 2012 elections, Kurir changed its editorial policy – it began attacking former Democratic Party officials and reporting in favour of the Serbian Progressive Party.
Such a policy of this paper continues to this day, with a short break in 2015. That year, Kurir tried to take over the management of the daily newspaper Politika, which led to a conflict with the authorities and the Serbian Progressive Party.
In November 2015, Rodić was in the centre of attention of the wider public after he published an author's text "Serbia, sorry" on the front page of the Kurir, in which he apologized to the citizens of Serbia because, as stated in the article, he was forced to join Aleksandar Vučić's propaganda team. After the publication of the article, a long-lasting public debate began between Rodić, Željko Mitrović, the owner of Pink TV, and Dragan J. Vučićević, the owner and editor of the Informer tabloid. The public conflict lasted for several months, and then the Kurir returned to its usual editorial policy.
In June 2017, Kurir published an article entitled "Vučić finances private army through EPS". The newspaper announced that Aleksandar Vučić, the former prime minister and current president of the country, was involved in the financing of football fan groups through the companies "Elektroprivreda Srbije" and "Aerodrom Nikola Tesla Beograd" in exchange for services provided by those groups. This started a new series of public conflicts between Rodić, Vučićević and Mitrović. Rodić then announced his entry into politics, stating that he had enough courage to oppose Vučić's dictatorship and the censorship of the Serbian media.
After an open conflict with the President of Serbia, Adria Media Group experienced serious financial problems. This company's accounts were blocked for months and normal operations were prevented. For a long time, Rodić was looking for a new business partner who would provide stability to the company. Negotiations regarding the sale of the company lasted almost two years.
At the end of 2018, the company Mondo Inc officially became the owner of 100 percent of Adria Media Group (AMG), and the decision to change ownership was announced on January 4, 2019, on the website of the Agency for Business Registers (APR).
Affiliated Interests Ceo
There is no specific manager of the Kurir online edition listed on the official website.
Affiliated Interests Editor-In-Chief
Was appointed editor-in-chief of the Kurir in June 2018. He graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences and has worked for this daily newspaper since its foundation on May 6, 2003. In the meantime, he also worked as a journalist and editor in the daily newspaper Press.
Affiliated Interests other important people
Started her journalistic career in the daily newspaper Alo. Since 2014, she has worked at Kurir as an assistant and deputy editor-in-chief.
Was appointed editor-in-chief of the Kurir in June 2018. He is a lawyer by profession. For more than 20 years, he worked in different editorial offices of daily newspapers in Serbia as a journalist and editor. In addition to journalism, he was involved in PR and socially responsible business projects. Since 2014, he has been the editor of the Chronicle column in the Kurir.
Contact
Vlajkovićeva 8
Stari grad, Belgrade
E-mail: redakcija@kurir-info.rs
W: www.kurir.rs
T: + 381 11 6357 100
Financial Information
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Advertising (in % of total funding)
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Further Information
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Missing data on market share and advertising revenue. Financial data is available only for the company that publishes the media, but not for the media itself. Official data on ownership are publicly available on the website of the Business Registers Agency.
