Media assets
Publishing: Kurir
Magazines: Elle, Elle dekor, Sensa, Lepa I srećna, National Geographic, Wanted!
Television: Kurir TV
Online: Kurir.rs, Espreso.rs, Mondo.rs, Elle.rs, Nationalgeographic.rs, Euractiv.rs
State Media Matrix Typology: Captured Private (CaPr)
The tabloid Kurir, owned by Igor Zezelj, is part of a financing scheme through which the Serbian government has been channeling public funds to take over a number of media outlets in the past five years.
The government uses the state-owned Telekom Srbija to transfer money from the state budget to other companies that later buy media outlets. In 2020, it was unveiled that Telekom Srbija had paid €38m to the company Wireless Media, owned by Zezelj, who used the funds to buy Kurir in 2019. Zezelj also owned a group called Adria that controls many other media outlets, including Espresso and Mondo.rs.
In 2023, Adria Media Group and Wireless Media were merged into Wireless Media Group, which owns over 30 media outlets.
August 2024