telegraf.rs

Telegraf is an information and entertainment portal owned by Internet Group doo. The portal is known for its clickbait headlines and tabloid reporting style.

In addition to the portal, which has existed since 2012, Telegraf has its own radio station, which obtained a licence in 2015. The portal is formally owned by Srećko Miodragović, but it is widely known that the real owner is a Serbian businessman, Veselin Jevrosimović. According to publicly available data, which BIRN Serbia has in its database, the Internet Group company, which is the owner of Telegraf, won 50,000 dinars (or 450 USD) in the competition of the municipality of Despotovac in 2022.

Key facts

Audience Share

8.96%

Ownership Type

Private

Geographic Coverage

International

Content Type

Free

Data Publicly Available

ownership data is easily available from other sources, e. g. public registries etc.

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Media Companies / Groups

Internet Group

Ownership

Ownership Structure

The publisher of Telegraf is the company Internet Group d.o.o., which is 100% owned by Srećko Miodragović, an employee of Veselin Jevrosimovic, who publicly admitted to own Telegraf.

Individual Owner

Media Companies / Groups
Facts

General Information

Founding Year

2012

Affiliated Interests Founder

Veselin Jevrosimović

A Serbian businessman who started his career in the USA. He has been in the IT sector from the very beginning. In the mid-90s, he founded ComTrade Group, which over time became one of the leading IT companies in Serbia. Since 2009, he has been the President of the Serbian Athletic Federation. In addition to ComTrade, he owns several other companies dealing with green energy, advertising, online sales, air transport and IT training.
Jevrosimović is not mentioned in the Agency for Business Registers data as the founder or owner of the portal, but he himself said in 2013, after two hand grenades were thrown at his ex-wife's house, that he believed it was an attack on him and the media because he was the owner of Telegraf. Jevrosimović is also mentioned as the owner of Telegraf in the 2015 report of the Council for the Fight against Corruption. The first owner of the Interner Group was Gordana Jevrosimović.
Several of his companies are registered at the same address as Internet Group. The headquarters of the Telegraf.rs editorial office and the parent company Internet Group are located at the same address and in the same building as the IT company ComTrade, owned by Veselin Jevrosimović, which has been winning tenders for the procurement of IT equipment for many Serbian institutions for years.
In Jevrosimović's IT Academy, one of the representatives is Srećko Miodragović, 100% owner and director of Internet Group since 2013.
In 2012, Jevrosimović bought 50% of the Macedonian company "Grafički centar", which owns three Macedonian media, and in October of the same year he became the new owner of the Macedonian Alfa TV. During this purchase, Jevrosimović made a statement to B92 on behalf of the Internet Group, saying that the company's plan was to expand in the field of digital media. With ComTrade, Jevrosimović has an intensive cooperation with the Macedonian Ministry of Information.

Affiliated Interests Ceo

Srećko Miodragović

The official owner of the Telegraf publishing house, Internet Group, and the website’s director. He is one of the representatives of the company Code Academy, owned by Veselin Jevrosimović, and a member of the board of the Telegraf Foundation. In his profile on the LinkedIn social network, Miodragović stated that he has been an advisor to the president of the Comtrade Group, Veselin Jevrosimović, since 2010. He is the President of the Management Board of the Association for Informatics of Serbia.

Affiliated Interests Editor-In-Chief

Igor Ćuzović

Was born in 1976 in Berane. He started his journalistic career in the daily Glas javnosti in 2004. He was the editor-in-chief of Glas javnosti, deputy editor-in-chief of the Kurir daily and editor-in-chief of the Espresso portal.
From September 2014 to September 2016, he was in the position of deputy editor-in-chief of the Telegraf.rs portal, from where he left for the Espreso.rs portal, and in October 2021, he returned to Telegraf.rs as editor-in-chief.

Affiliated Interests other important people

Aleksandar Saša Jovanović

Before Ćuzović, the editor-in-chief of the Telegraf.rs portal was Aleksandar Saša Jovanović, now art manager of Telegraf and editor of Radio Telegraf. A man close to the ruling SNS party, and at one time a member of PUPS, a participant in several reality shows, a frequent guest on pro-government media. He was in the public spotlight after an incident at a basketball game between Partizan and Crvena zvezda in 2013, when he threw a ball and hit Partizan coach Duško Vujošević from the first row during the break of the game.

Contact

Savski nasip 7

Novi Beograd, Belgrade

E-mail: office@telegraf.rs

W: www.telegraf.rs

Financial Information

Revenue (in Mill. $)

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Operating Profit (in Mill. $)

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Advertising (in % of total funding)

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Market Share

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Further Information

Meta Data

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.

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