Monitor
Monitor is a weekly magazine covering economic, political and social issues. It was founded by Miodrag Miško Perović. The first edition was published on October 19th 1990. Monitor has always been a critical medium analyzing the Montenegrin state, political, economic and social developments by calling each phenomena by its name. This is why they were quite often critical of the government but also municipal leadership. This created the environment in which their journalists were frequently threatened, some of them also physically assaulted.
Monitor uses the printing house of the "Daily Press", the publisher of ND Vijesti. Monitor publishes 900 copies per issue, but they also have a website where the same articles are available.
Audience Share
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Ownership Type
Private
Geographic Coverage
National
Content Type
Paid content (1.50 EUR)
Media Companies / Groups
Monitor
Ownership Structure
Nedjeljnik Monitor is owned by Monitor d.o.o. whose biggest shareholder is Miodrag Perović and members of his family. Perović family is the majority owner with 51.83%. The next one is Jelena Kažanegra with 12.58% and Željko Ivanović with 6.08%, while there are ten other minority owners. CEO Milena Perović Korać is the owner of 3%, editor-in-chief Esad Kočan also owns 3%,
Predrag Nikolić and Zoran Radulović own 3% of the shares each, Nikola Koćalo, Zoran Mišurović and Vladimir Nikaljević hold 3,5% of the shares, Veseljko Koprivica is the owner of 2% just as Miodrag Rašović who also has 2%.
Voting Rights
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Individual Owner
Group / Individual Owner
Jelena Kažanegra
Jelena Kazanegra is a shareholder of Monitor d.o.o with 12.58% share. There is little to no information about her professional career.
General Information
Founding Year
1990
Affiliated Interests Founder
A Montenegrin journalist, media publisher, university professor, political activist, and businessman. Perović was also a fierce proponent of the formation of a Montenegrin cultural society, today known as Matica Crnogorska. He was a founding member and was chosen as the vice-president on 22 May 1993 during its founding assembly. In the past he was openly criticized for supporting Milo Đukanović and DPS.
Montenegrin businessman who died in 2002, co-founder of Monitor. Most notable for starting various media outlets in Montenegro during the 1990s and 2000s such as FM radio station Antena M, weekly newsmagazine Monitor, daily newspaper and television station Vijesti.
Affiliated Interests Ceo
Currently the acting director of Monitor. She is an experienced journalist and a poetess. Her views are highly valued and sought after, and she also writes columns for Vijesti. She was threatened because of her writing by the mayor of Kolašin in 2013.
Affiliated Interests Editor-In-Chief
Started his career writing for the newspaper "Pobjeda". Later, he worked as deputy editor-in-chief of "TV Crna Gora". He was suspended because of his political views.
After moving to the "Monitor" magazine, he reported on the wars in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo. He raised issues that were of concern in the society and politics of Montenegro. In 2021 he was assaulted in Podgorica by an unknown man.
Contact
Trg Republike bb. 81000 Podgorica
E-mail: monitor@t-com.me
Phone number: + 382 20 404 641
Web: www.monitor.co.me
Financial Information
Revenue (in Mill. $)
0,074 Milion EUR / 0,077 USD
Operating Profit (in Mill. $)
-0,0002 Milion EUR / -0,0002 USD
Advertising (in % of total funding)
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Market Share
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Further Information
Meta Data
The data on the media outlet was collected from the Central Registry of business entities of Montenegro, Tax administration portal Taxis, website of the media and desk research. Audience shares are missing, since there is no credible centralized audience measuring mechanism in the country.
MOM team in Montenegro contacted the media outlet on August 18, 2023, as is the practice for Media Ownership Monitor, to invite the media owners to proactively disclose information relevant to the study.
The annual average exchange rate of the Central Bank for 2022 was used to convert EUR into USD (1,05).