ND VIJESTI
Vijesti Media Group is the biggest media group in Montenegro. It consists of two different companies with similar ownership structures that share the same Vijesti brand – Daily Press d.o.o. and Televizija Vijesti d.o.o. Majority owner of the entire group is United Media S.A.R.L. with 51% of ownership, while remaining ownership is shared among local owners and Media Development Investment Fund, INC.
Daily and Portal Vijesti are published by the Daily Press company. The first issue of the newspaper was published on September 1st, 1997. It is the daily newspaper that the readers trust most in Montenegro, according to all available public opinion surveys.
ND Vijesti was founded by the same persons who founded the Vijesti Television afterwards and the weekly Monitor many years before “Vijesti.”
Media Group Vijesti is also recognized for the views and opinions of one of its founders, Željko Ivanović, who regularly publishes columns that are heavily criticised by some political parties and organisations.
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Ownership Type
Private
Geographic Coverage
National
Content Type
Paid content (0.70 EUR)
Media Companies / Groups
Daily Press
United Group
Ownership Structure
ND Vijesti is published by Daily Press d.o.o. registered in Montenegro. Daily Press d.o.o. has three shareholders: United Media S.A. R.L. (51%), Mne Media One d.o.o. (33.94%) and Media Development Investment Fund, INC (15.05%)
MNE Media One registered in Podgorica has four shareholders: Filip Ivanovic (31,8%), Katarina Perovic (31,8%), Stefan Mitrovic (26,2%) and Marijana Bojanic (10,1%).
United Media S.A.R.L. is a subsidiary of United Group registered in the Netherlands, and has a very complex ownership structure, where reportedly Dragan Šolak controls at least 35.89%, however access to the Netherlands’ Register of Ultimate Beneficial Owners is currently unavailable. The remaining shares of United Media are controled by BC Partners, an investment company based in the UK.
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Media Development Investment Fund
Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF) is a not-for-profit investment fund for independent media in countries where access to free and independent media is under threat. The founder is Saša Vučinić, a Serbian journalist and is the co-founder of North Base Media VC, and co-founder and former CEO and Managing Director of the Media Development Loan Fund. He established B92 in Serbia, during Slobodan Milosevic’s regime as a legal entity and was its first CEO.
Stefan Mitrovic
One of the co-founders of the MNE Media One registered in Podgorica, where he holds 26.24% stake. MNE Media One holds nearly 34% shares in ND Vijesti.
Marijana Bojanic
Maijana Bojanic is the CEO of Televizija Vijesti d.o.o. and other affiliated media companies – Daily Press d.o.o. the publisher of the daily „Vijesti“ and portal „Vijesti Online“. Bojanić started her journalistic career in 1999 in the weekly Monitor, and since 2008, she has been working at TV Vijesti – first as a journalist and later on as the CEO of the media outlet. Bojanić graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy. She is the winner of several awards in relation to journalism, management and philanthropy. She is also a Vice President of the Association of Managers of Montenegro.
General Information
Founding Year
1997
Affiliated Interests Founder
ND Vijesti was established by several prominent individuals from the media industry, who held several ownerships and/or managerial positions in other media – including Miodrag Perović, Željko Ivanović, Ljubiša Mitrović and Mihajlo Jovović from daily Vijesti and Milka Tadić Mijović from weekly Monitor.
Affiliated Interests Ceo
The CEO of Televizija Vijesti d.o.o. and other affiliated media companies – Daily Press d.o.o. the publisher of the daily „Vijesti“ and portal „Vijesti Online“. Marijana Bojanić is also a minority shareholder in the Daily Press d.o.o.
Bojanić started her journalistic career in 1999 in the weekly Monitor, and since 2008, she has been working at TV Vijesti – first as a journalist and later on as the CEO of the media outlet. Bojanić graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy. She is the winner of several awards in relation to journalism, management and philanthropy. She is also a Vice President of the Association of Managers of Montenegro.
Affiliated Interests Editor-In-Chief
Mihailo Jovović is one of the founders of the outlets in the Vijesti Media Group. Jovović has been part of the Daily Vijesti and later Portal Vijesti editorial since its establishment. Jovović, a journalist by profession, was the editor-in-chief of the Daily and Portal Vijesti from 2011 to 2018, when he became the program director of Vijesti. Since October 2023 Jovović is again Editor-in-Chief of the Daily and Portal Vijesti. Since 2021 Jovović has also been the head of the Government’s Commission for Monitoring of Activities of Authorities Responsible for Investigations of Attacks on Journalists and Media.
Contact
Trg nezavisnosti bb, Podgorica
E-mail: marijana.bojanic@vijesti.me
Phone number: +382 20040602
Website: www.vijesti.me
Financial Information
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Further Information
Meta Data
There is no credible centralised audience measuring mechanism in the country. Hence many organisations use different metrics. There is no publicly available information on the initial owners and founders of Daily Vijesti or their shares at the time of incorporation.
MOM Team in Montenegro contacted the media outlet on August 18, 2023 as is the practice for Media Ownership Monitor to invite media owners to proactively disclose information relevant to the study.
Advertising revenue data, as well as market share data, are missing. No public up-to-date information is available on the size of the Montenegrin advertising market post-Covid 19.
ND Vijesti publishes some of its content on Portal Vijesti as its own website since both are owned by the Daily Press d.o.o. An evarage annual exchange rate of the Central Bank for 2022 was used to convert EUR into USD (1,05).
The data on the media outlet was collected from the Central Registry of business entities of Montenegro, Agency for electronic media, Tax administration portal Taxis, website of the media and desk research.