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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Profile Times New Roman is the publisher of the Timesnewroman.ro satirical website. The company’s main shareholders are: Apsisware (90%) and Calin Petrar, its editor-in-chief, with 10%). Apsisware was incorporated in 2009 as a software publishing company. It had 51 employees in 2022 and three individuals as shareholders (Ciprian Badescu, Maria Badescu, George Oprea). Audience Ownership
Profile Smart Sport Marketing is a company founded in 2015 and has three shareholders. It is the publisher of Kamikazeonline.ro, a satire-focused website. Audience Ownership Finances
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Profile Observator cultural (The Cultural Observer) is a weekly literary magazine focused on the culture and art of Romania, along with political issues. This magazine is funded by subscriptions, art world advertisements and money from Romania’s Ministry of Culture. The magazine’s first issue was published in 2000. Carmen Musat, writer and university professor, is the
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Profile Grupul pentru Dialog Social – GDS (Group for Social Dialogue) is a human rights and civil liberties NGO founded at the end of 1989 by a group of intellectuals (writers, artists, journalists etc.). The NGO published the first issue of Revista 22, a culture magazine, in January 1990. Audience Ownership Finances
Profile Financial news website Ziarul Financiar and the business oriented Business Magazin are all part of MediaMex Investment. Both news outlets used to be part of Mediafax Group, which was administered by the media mogul Adrian Sarbu, founder of Pro TV channel. Mediafax Group entered insolvency in 2015.Romanian entrepreneur Dan Sucu, best known for his
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Profile Forbes Romania is published by BP Publishing Media, a company 100% owned by Raluca Michailov. Besides the website, Forbes.ro, the magazine is published monthly in print format Audience Ownership Finances
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Profile Money.ro is a news portal that was launched in 2008 as a project run by the media group Realitatea Catavencu founded by the controversial businessman Sorin Ovidiu Vintu. Money.ro was taken over by Sorin Freciu in 2012 after the project went through prolonged financial struggles. Currently it is owned by OSAL LLC International, a
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Profile The Romania-Insider.com website was launched in 2010. It is an online news portal dedicated to Romania, published exclusively in English. Romania-Insider.com is owned by Business Insider, a Bucharest-based company. Investor and growth advisor Marius Istrate bought 27.6% shares in the company in 2021, thus Business Insider currently has four shareholders. He joined co-founders Corina