Kurir
The "Kurir" medium is one of the oldest online media in North Macedonia. Since its beginnings, it has been known to the public as a propaganda medium that publishes content in favor of the center-right VMRO-DPMNE party and attacks on its opponents and competitors. These practices were present to such an extent that the name "Kurir" became synonymous with propagandistic journalism in the Macedonian media scene. The online medium has kept the same political orientation even today, which is mainly expressed through the columns and opinion pieces it publishes. Although the medium did not change the editorial policy, it has changed ownership three times. It was founded by the brother of an official of VMRO-DPMNE, passed into the ownership of the medium's editor, and then Hungarian capital entered it.
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Ownership Type
Private
Geographic Coverage
International
Content Type
Free content
Media Companies / Groups
Em Media
Ownership Structure
The online medium "Kurir mk" is owned by the director Sashe Stojanovski and the Hungarian citizen Agnes Adamik through her Macedonian company "Adinamik Media".
Individual Owner
General Information
Founding Year
2010
Affiliated Interests Founder
Is a Macedonian businessman, who is primarily known as the brother of the politician Vlado Misajlovski, the vice-president of the VMRO-DPMNE party and former Minister of Transport and Communications. In 2009, he founded the company "Em Media", which registered the "Kurir" website. Aco Misajlovski has no prior experience in the media business. In 2015, he sold the company to Sashe Stojanovski, who was the editor-in-chief of the medium at the time. Today, he is the owner and director of the marketing agency "Kreativa 5". Currently, he is not in the public eye and there is not much information about him.
Affiliated Interests Ceo
Is a businessman and former editor-in-chief of "Kurir". He headed "Kurir" from its inception until he ultimately became its owner in 2015, when he bought the company "Em Media" from its former owner Aco Misajlovski. In fact, this happened on the day when Aco Mojsovski’s brother Vlado Misajlovski was appointed the Minister of Transport and Communications. A year earlier, in 2014, Stojanovski bought the Veles based medium "Kanal 1" television, which is no longer in operation. Until 2017, Stojanovski was the full owner of the publisher of "Kurir", as well as other online media. However, he then sold the majority stake of that publisher to "Adinamik Media", a company with Hungarian capital, now remaining as only a minority shareholder.
Affiliated Interests Editor-In-Chief
Is a Macedonian journalist with experience at a few different online media.
Contact
Address: Ul. "Mirce Orovchanec" no. 25/1, floor 4/9 1000 Skopje
phone: +389 2 614 18 27
email: nfo@kurir.mk
website:| www.kurir.mk
Financial Information
Revenue (in Mill. $)
315.018 $ /18.46 Mln. MKD
Operating Profit (in Mill. $)
-33.447 $/ -1.96 Mln. MKD
Advertising (in % of total funding)
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Market Share
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The ownership structure and the financial reports are based on data recived from Central registry of the Republic of North Macedonia. The documents were received on 11.08.2023 based on a government decision from 2017 for free access for investigative journalists. The financial information is for 2022. For the calculation of the amounts in US dollars, the average exchange rate for 2022 from the National Bank of the Republic of North Macedonia was used.
