Pecat
Pečat is a weekly newspaper with nationalist and pro-Russian views. Newspapers criticised the former government when the Democratic Party was in power, but their criticism practically disappeared when the Serbian Progressive Party came to power. One of the editors in Pečat was Aleksandar Vulin, a close associate of the president of the Serbian Progressive Party, Aleksandar Vučić.
Data from the BIRN database "Public about public tenders" show that the company Naš Pečat AD received 3,650,000 dinars from the City of Belgrade for five projects from 2019 to 2022 in tenders for co-financing projects for the production of media content in the area of public information. The Press Council announced in 2022 that the Pečat newspaper violated the Code of Journalists of Serbia with the article "Parade of Monkey Poxes" about the holding of Europride in Belgrade.
Audience Share
0.7%
Ownership Type
Private
Geographic Coverage
National
Content Type
Paid content: 250 RSD per copy (2023)
Media Companies / Groups
Naš Pečat
Ownership Structure
The owner of Pečat is Naš Pečat AD, a closed joint-stock company whose ownership cannot be seen in public registers. However, in 2017, this company submitted to the Agency for Business Registers a certificate that 100% of the company is owned by Milorad Vučelić.
Individual Owner
General Information
Founding Year
2007
Affiliated Interests Founder
Is a journalist and former member of the Socialist Party of Serbia. He was born in 1948 and graduated from the Faculty of Law in Belgrade. He was the CEO of RTV Novi Sad and wrote for the Politika and NIN. He became the editor of NIN in 1985 and held that position until 1991. He was also the manager of "Zvezdara teatar" and the artistic director of "Budva grad teatar." From 1992 to 1995, he was the CEO of RTS, when this television was a propaganda instrument of the Milošević regime. Although he presents himself as a leftist and an admirer of Che Guevara, Vučelić was close to the nationalist and dictator Slobodan Milošević in the 90s. He left the Socialist Party of Serbia in 1995 but returned from 1997 to 1998. From 1997 to 1999, he was the president of the Management Board of AD Telekom Srbija and became president of the Handball Association of Yugoslavia.
After the murder of the democratic Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić in 2003, Vučelić was arrested in a police operation called Sablja. In addition, the investigative show, and now the web portal, Insajder, published a police report stating that Vučelić was involved in cigarette smuggling in the 90s, which he denied. He became the vice president of the SPS in 2003 and came second in the 2006 elections for the Party president, behind Ivica Dačić.
He founded the Pečat Weekly in 2008 and was its editor-in-chief.
Today, he is close to the ruling Serbian Progressive Party, which he often publicly defends.
In October 2015, as the vice president of the Partizan Football Club, he was unanimously elected as the first man of the Partizan Yugoslav Sports Association, and a year later, he was elected as the president of the Partizan Football Club. He resigned from the post in August 2023.
In September 2017, he was appointed acting editor-in-chief of Večernje novosti and all publications of the Novosti company.
Patriarch Porfirije awarded him the Order of Saint Sava for "many years of successful cooperation, journalistic professionalism, and affirmation of Christian values and virtues" in 2021.
Affiliated Interests Ceo
The CEO of Pecat. There is no public biography about Nataša.
Affiliated Interests Editor-In-Chief
Editor-in-Chief of Pecat.
Affiliated Interests other important people
Former minister of defence and interior affairs, and today director of BIA, was the editor of Pečat newspaper before the Serbian Progressive Party came to power in 2012.
Contact
Financial Information
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