Profile X si Zero Media is a company running Defapt.ro, an independent news site, which was established by Catalin Prisacariu, an investigative journalist who has worked for a spate of news media in Romania. Audience Ownership Finances
Profile ZYX Publishing owns through You Trust Publishing Group 51.59% of the shares in Universal Impex Company Est, the company that operates the website B365.ro. The rest of 48.41% shares are controlled by Sorin Enache who invested in the development of the site since he took it over in 2020. B365.ro was taken over by
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Profile InternetCorp is fully controlled by the Finland-based company Primavera Digital Group OY. In 2021, the online publishing company InternetCorp was taken over by the Finnish-controlled, pan-European media and marketing group Primavera Digital Group (PDG). InternetCorp was founded in 2005 by three Romanian entrepreneurs, namely Mihai Seceleanu, Liviu Dumitrascu and Daniel Tatar. Audience Ownership Finances
Profile The news portal Spotmedia.ro was launched in June 2020 by a group of journalists who left Ziare.com following disagreements with the site’s administrator. The journalists left as a result of the repeated attempts of intervention by the management in the editorial agenda of the news site. At the time, all 30 or so staff
Profile EduPedu.ro is an online publication that exclusively publishes covering education and research. The website was launched in autumn 2018 by Raluca Pantazi, former journalist at Hotnews.ro. She is the sole owner of the website operator, the company Edupedu. Audience Ownership Finances
Profile The European Business Environment is the operating company of Stiripesurse.ro, a generalist news portal, and Bugetul.ro, a business news portal. The company’s sole shareholder is Iosif Buble who is also the owner of one of the oldest polling companies in Romania, CURS (Centrul de Sociologie Urbană și Regională). Buble’s wife is an MP with
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Profile Journalists Dan Tapalaga and Cristian Pantazi left Hotnews.ro and launched the news and investigations platform G4Media.ro in March 2018. At the beginning, the website was operated by the Foundation Group 4 Media Freedom and Democracy, which was renamed as G4 Global Journalism and converted into a company in 2021. The company has three shareholders,
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Profile Bogdan Chirieac worked for 15 years at Adevarul daily national newspaper from where he left his position as deputy editor-in-chief in 2005 along with three other journalists to launch Gandul, a new nationwide newspaper. Chirieac resigned from Gandul in 2007 after Evenimentul zilei revealed that during the period when he was signing editorials about
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Profile In 2018, a team of journalists led by Sabin Orcan left the historical newspaper Romania Libera and founded a new company, News International, which obtained the licence for publishing a Romanian version of the Newsweek magazine. Orcan remains the general director of the magazine, yet it is Daniela Jivan who owns the majority stake
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Profile RTV Properties Management is owned by Maria Catrinel Gheorghe who also fully owns RTV HD, the broadcaster of Romania TV station. RTV Properties Management runs the following portals: Romaniatv.net, a news portal that reflects the conservative, populist and nationalist perspective of the eponymous television station, Economica.net, a business news portal, Dailybusiness.ro, a business-oriented, daily
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