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''Blic'' (Cyrillic: Блиц, ) is a daily middle-market tabloid newspaper in Serbia. Founded in 1996, ''Blic'' is owned by Ringier Axel Springer Media AG, a joint venture between
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media corporation from
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and
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from Germany.


Ownership

The initial owners of ''Blic'', Austria-based businessmen Aleksandar Lupšić and Peter Kelbel, sold the paper along with its parent company Blic Press d.o.o. in November 2000 to
Gruner + Jahr Gruner may refer to: People * Dov Gruner (1912–1947), Jewish Zionist leader * Eduard Gruner, Swiss engineer * Elioth Gruner (1882–1939), Australian painter * Gottlieb Sigmund Gruner (1717–1778), Swiss cartographer and geologist * Klaus ...
, a German publishing firm majority-owned by the
Bertelsmann Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA () is a German private multinational conglomerate corporation based in Gütersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is one of the world's largest media conglomerates, and is also active in the service sector an ...
conglomerate, right after the October 5th overthrow in Serbia. Initially, G+J bought 49% stake in Blic Press d.o.o., but eventually bought the remaining stake as well. In March 2003, Gruner + Jahr sold its 25.1% stake in Blic Press d.o.o. to
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while retaining the remaining 74.9%. After buying 74.9% stake in Blic Press d.o.o. from Gruner+Jahr in January 2004,
Ringier AG Ringier AG is a media group in Switzerland, founded in 1833 in Zofingen and based in Zürich. The current strategy is based not only on media but also on e-commerce and entertainment. It has a yearly income of approximately 1000 million CHF and ...
assigned Attila Mihók to be the
CEO A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief administrator officer (CAO) or just chief executive (CE), is one of a number of corporate executives charged with the management of an organization especiall ...
of its new Serbian subsidiary that got renamed Ringier d.o.o. He performed the job until November 2007 and was in July 2008 succeeded by Jelena Drakulić. In 2010, when Ringier AG and
Axel Springer AG Axel Springer SE () is a German digital and popular periodical publishing house which is the largest in Europe, with numerous multimedia news brands, such as ''Bild'', ''Die Welt'', and ''Fakt'' and more than 15,000 employees. It generated tota ...
launched a new joint venture Ringier Axel Springer Media AG, ''Blic'' got incorporated among the assets of the newly created joint venture entity while Ringier d.o.o. in Serbia changed its name to Ringier Axel Springer d.o.o. The joint Swiss-German entity owns and operates ''Blic'' through its local subsidiary Ringier Axel Springer d.o.o. (formerly ''Blic Press d.o.o.'' and ''Ringier d.o.o.''), a
limited liability company A limited liability company (LLC for short) is the US-specific form of a private limited company. It is a business structure that can combine the pass-through taxation of a partnership or sole proprietorship with the limited liability of ...
. ''Blic'' online platforms such as blic.rs, 24sata.rs, and alo.rs are controlled by Ringier Digital AG, which has in July 2014 had its 49% stake bought by KKR, an American
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specializing in
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s. KKR thus increased its presence on the Serbian digital media and telecommunications market, having previously in October 2013 bought the majority stake in
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, leading Serbian cable and Internet provider.


Assets


Print

Since its founding, ''Blic'' has become a centerpiece of several other publications. They include: *''
Alo! ''Alo!'' is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Belgrade, Serbia. Launched by Ringier AG (owners of another Serbian daily ''Blic'') on October 15, 2007, ''Alo!'' attempts to establish itself on the saturated Serbian daily tabloid market throu ...
'' (''Blics sister daily tabloid started in October 2007) *''Euro Blic'' (''Blic'' issue for
Republika Srpska Republika Srpska ( sr-Cyrl, Република Српска, lit=Serb Republic, also known as Republic of Srpska, ) is one of the two entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the other being the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is located ...
) *''Blic Žena'' (started in November 2004) *''Blic Puls'' (celebrity gossip weekly magazine started in March 2006) *'' 24 sata'' (free weekly newspaper that previously run as free daily in period from October 2006 ) *''
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'' (Serbian version of the German magazine, launched in 2010 after Ringier created a joint venture with
Axel Springer Axel Cäsar Springer (2 May 1912 – 22 September 1985) was a German publisher and founder of what is now Axel Springer SE, the largest media publishing firm in Europe. By the early 1960s his print titles dominated the West German daily press m ...
)


Digital

Blic.rs online portal incorporates news content from the ''Blic'' daily as well as from other publications under the Ringer Axel Springer umbrella in Serbia. Since the late 2000s, Blic.rs is among the most visited websites in Serbia, according to Gemius Audience research. Other online offerings include Alo.rs, 24sata.rs, PulsOnline.rs, SuperOdmor.rs, NonStopShop.rs, MojAuto.rs, and Nekretnine.rs.


History

The newspaper was founded in September 1996 by a group of
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-based businessmen that included Peter Kelbel and Aleksandar Lupšić, who simultaneously bought
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's '' Nový čas'' though the original newspaper had been started a year before (in 1995, as weekly) and had drawn some journalists who had previously been working for Borba and Nasa Borba. At the time of his investment in ''Blic'', Lupšić had strong ties to Milošević's wife Mira Marković and her party
Yugoslav Left The Yugoslav Left ( sr, Југословенска Левица, Jugoslovenska Levica; abbr. ЈУЛ, JUL) was a far-left political party in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. At its peak, the party had 20 seats in Republic of Serbia's National As ...
(JUL). The first issue of ''Blic'' appeared on September 16, 1996 thus becoming the 10th daily newspaper to be published in
FR Yugoslavia Serbia and Montenegro ( sr, Cрбија и Црна Гора, translit=Srbija i Crna Gora) was a country in Southeast Europe located in the Balkans that existed from 1992 to 2006, following the breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yu ...
at the time (the other nine being ''
Politika ''Politika'' ( sr-Cyrl, Политика; ''Politics'') is a Serbian daily newspaper, published in Belgrade. Founded in 1904 by Vladislav F. Ribnikar, it is the oldest daily newspaper still in circulation in the Balkans. Publishing and owners ...
'', '' Borba'', '' Dnevnik'', ''
Pobjeda Pobjeda ( cyrl, Пoбjeдa, , lit. "The Victory") ( MNSENIPO is a Montenegrin daily newspaper. Having been published for 75 years, it is the oldest Montenegrin newspaper still in circulation; in the media, it is also the oldest Montenegrin activ ...
'', ''
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'', '' Večernje novosti'', '' Politika ekspres'', '' Naša borba'', and ''
Dnevni telegraf ''Dnevni telegraf'' was a Serbian daily middle-market tabloid published in Belgrade between 1996 and November 1998, and then also in Podgorica until March 1999. It was the first privately owned daily in Serbia after more than 50 years of across ...
''). Prior to that, the same group took over a
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newspaper where they gained valuable publishing experience which encouraged them to go on further. For their Serbian operation, the owners got seasoned journalist Manojlo "Manjo" Vukotić to be the editor-in-chief. Just like many other media operations in Serbia from the 1990s and beyond, ''Blics ownership structure was murky as well. It was controlled by an entity called Blic Press d.o.o. - a limited liability company registered in Belgrade in March 1996. Blic Press' owners according to the Serbian Business Register were listed to be Milorad Perovic, a resident of Belgrade (51%) and
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-based company named Mitsui Securities Eastern Europe Fund AG (49%) whose owners were not listed.Sumrak "Blic" demokratije
/ref> Starting out, ''Blic'' was a typical stripped-down tabloid with short and simple stories, as well as a lot of entertainment content. Its first issues were circulated in 50,000 copies per day with the price set at 1 dinar. It also ran a heavily advertised sweepstakes with the grand prize being a
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Classic car and DM30,000. As a result of the sweepstakes, the paper's circulation increased by 30% within only a couple of weeks of the first issue.


1996–1997 protests

In November 1996, local municipal elections were held across Serbia. The opposition, headed by the DS and SPO, parties made big gains at the expense of Milošević's
Socialist Party of Serbia The Socialist Party of Serbia ( sr, Социјалистичка партија Србије, Socijalistička partija Srbije, SPS) is a political party in Serbia. It is led by Ivica Dačić. It was founded in 1990 as the direct successor to ...
(SPS). Milošević refused to recognize the results, thus sparking a huge outpouring of street protests. ''Blic'' capitalized on this to further its position on the market through fair coverage of the events ignored by the government-controlled media. The decision turned out to be a business winner in the short term as circulation rapidly grew to 200,000 copies a day, but it also drew the ire of the Milošević authorities. In the circumstances when state media made virtually no mention of the protests and the reporting of the independent media was insufficient on the subject, ''Blic'' made a gutsy decision to devote a sizable part of its paper every day to the protests. The government responded immediately by restricting ''Blics access to print and distribution facilities as the state printing house refused to print any more than 80,000 copies of the paper. The problem first appeared when it came time to print the 29 November 1996 holiday 4-day issue (FR Yugoslavia at the time still celebrated the old SFR Yugoslavia's day of the republic) as the state-owned Borba printing facility informed ''Blic'' staff that it's not able to print the holiday issue in the requested 235,000 copies "due to technical reasons" and instead offered to print about a third of that. The holiday issue still appeared on newsstands in projected circulation as some of it got printed at Borba and the rest in privately owned ABC Produkt. However, the issue that appeared was a complete whitewash, abandoning the paper's new concept and going back to entertainment and frivolity. Forty three journalists employed at ''Blic'' immediately publicly distanced themselves from the issue, and editor-in-chief Manjo Vukotić and his deputy Cvijetin Milivojević resigned in protest. The most controversial part of the issue was the pro-government op-ed piece under the headline "Nećemo da podstičemo nasilje" (We won't encourage violence) signed by Peter Kelbel who wrote it claiming to represent the paper's owners. In the piece he criticizes the protesters and indirectly supports the government, saying among other things that "Yugoslavia needs creative people and not wolves who follow the alpha wolf and hunt in packs" - a veiled reference to opposition leader
Vuk Drašković Vuk Drašković ( sr-cyrl, Вук Драшковић, ; born 29 November 1946) is a Serbian writer and politician. He is the leader of the Serbian Renewal Movement, and served as the war-time Deputy Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugo ...
whose first name Vuk translates to "wolf". Clearly, since certain influential individuals within the state apparatus were unhappy with the paper's reporting, ''Blic'' made guarantees to decrease reporting on the protests and to decrease circulation for the time being. ''Blic'' publishers caved in under state pressure and drastically reduced the number of political pages. ''Blic'' owners faced a lot of criticism over their decision to give in to the authorities. The move was criticized by many of its journalists and editors along with the Serbian opposition. As a response, in December 1996, the journalists and editors formed their own newspaper '' Demokratija'' that had the support of opposition
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(DS). Still, Vukotić and many of the staffers that originally distanced themselves from the paper returned to ''Blic'' shortly and for a few months put out a stripped-down version of the paper with only 60,000 copies printed each day. All in all, as a result of the unsavory episode, ''Blic'' quickly lost half its circulation, as well as many of its journalistic staff who resigned in protest. ''Blic'' then contracted a new printing house, resumed a critical line and soon increased its circulation to nearly 160,000.


''Glas javnosti''

In April 1998, ''Blic'' experienced another fragmentation of its staff when due to disagreements with owner Aca Lupšić over revenue sharing, editor-in-chief Manjo Vukotić decided to step out on his own. Majority of the staff followed him. They then hooked up with another businessman Radisav Rodić (owner of the printing company ABC Produkt that printed daily issues of ''Blic'' and its offshoots) and under his financial backing started a new paper called ''
Glas javnosti ''Glas javnosti'' (Глас јавности, meaning "Voice of the Public") was a daily newspaper published in Belgrade. After publishing a newspaper from April 1998 until January 2010, the people behind the project have since then run an online ...
'' (the first five issues were called ''Novi Blic''). Rodić thus entered the world of newspaper publishing.


New ownership: Gruner+Jahr

In November 2000, shortly after the overthrow of
Slobodan Milošević Slobodan Milošević (, ; 20 August 1941 – 11 March 2006) was a Yugoslav and Serbian politician who was the president of Serbia within Yugoslavia from 1989 to 1997 (originally the Socialist Republic of Serbia, a constituent republic of ...
in Serbia, German publishing firm
Gruner + Jahr Gruner may refer to: People * Dov Gruner (1912–1947), Jewish Zionist leader * Eduard Gruner, Swiss engineer * Elioth Gruner (1882–1939), Australian painter * Gottlieb Sigmund Gruner (1717–1778), Swiss cartographer and geologist * Klaus ...
announced its purchase of 49% stake in Blic Press d.o.o. from Aca Lupšić and his partners. At the time of the transaction, the paper's circulation was announced to be 175,000 copies daily.


Ringier buyout

''Blic'' got sold to Swiss multimedia communications group
Ringier Ringier AG is a media group in Switzerland, founded in 1833 in Zofingen and based in Zürich. The current strategy is based not only on media but also on e-commerce and entertainment. It has a yearly income of approximately 1000 million CHF and ...
in early 2004 (takeover finalized in October 2004).


The 'Suitcase' affair

In early 2006, ''Blic'' created a storm of controversy by claiming in its 4 February 2006 issue that the 11 January arrest of Dejan Simić,
National Bank of Serbia The National Bank of Serbia ( sr, Народна банка Србије, Narodna banka Srbije) is the central bank of Serbia. Founded in 1884, the responsibilities of the bank are: monetary policy, sole issuer of Serbian banknotes and coins, ...
vice-governor (who was taken in red-handed at his apartment while accepting a 100,000 bribe from Vladimir Zagrađanin of SPS), actually had a completely different background from what the police and Serbian government authorities told the public. The newspaper alleged that Dušan Lalić, an NBS employee and deputy PM
Miroljub Labus Miroljub Labus (Serbian Cyrillic: Мирољуб Лабус; born 28 February 1947) is a Serbian economist and former politician. He is currently a University of Belgrade professor, lecturing political economy at the University of Belgrade Faculty ...
' son-in-law, was actually the individual behind the bribing. The story further alleged that deputy PM Labus spent an entire night convincing Prime Minister
Vojislav Koštunica Vojislav Koštunica ( sr-cyrl, Војислав Коштуница, ; born 24 March 1944) is a Serbian former politician who served as the last President of Serbia and Montenegro, president of FR Yugoslavia from 2000 to 2003 and as the Prime Min ...
not to prosecute his son-in-law. And finally, the story also accused Serbian Interior Minister Dragan Jočić of stopping the police investigation from climbing up the
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and thus preventing the arrests of NBS governor
Radovan Jelašić Radovan Jelašić ( sr-cyr, Радован Јелашић; hu, Jelasity Radován; born 19 February 1968) is a Hungarian-Serbian economist who served as the Governor of the National Bank of Serbia from 2004 to 2010. He has been the CEO of Erste B ...
and the above-mentioned Dušan Lalić, as well as SPS'
Ivica Dačić Ivica Dačić ( sr-cyr, Ивица Дачић, ; born 1 January 1966) is a Serbian politician serving as first deputy prime minister of Serbia and minister of foreign affairs since 2022, roles which he previously served under governments of Mirk ...
who was present in the mentioned apartment minutes before the police stormed in. The paper voiced its fear that the minority coalition government, which held a shaky 5-seat parliamentary support at the time, would fall as Jočić's motivation for disrupting the thorough police action. All of the parties concerned (Labus, Lalić, Jočić, Jelašić, and Dačić) vehemently rubbished the story, with Labus announcing immediate legal action against ''Blic'' for libel. In March 2007, the parent company announced ''Blics average daily circulation during the 2006 calendar year to be 180,948.


Ratko Knežević interview

On July 27, 2009, ''Blic'' published an interview with Ratko Knežević, former Montenegrin trade representative in
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and former close friend of Montenegrin Prime Minister
Milo Đukanović Milo Đukanović ( cnr, Мило Ђукановић, ; born 15 February 1962) is a Montenegrin politician serving as the President of Montenegro since 2018, previously serving in the role from 1998 to 2003. He also served as the Prime Minister o ...
(Knežević was the best man at Đukanović's wedding). The ''Blic'' interview came couple of days after Knežević gave a similarly explosive interview to Montenegrin daily ''
Vijesti ''Nezavisni dnevnik Vijesti'' (; English translation: ''News'') is a Montenegrin daily newspaper. The paper is published and managed by an entity called Daily Press d.o.o. - a limited liability company based in Podgorica. The company's ownership ...
'' in which he effectively accused Đukanović and his associate Stanko Subotić of ordering the October 2008 murder of Croatian journalist
Ivo Pukanić Ivo Pukanić (21 January 1961 – 23 October 2008) was a Croatian journalist. He was best known as editor-in-chief of the once influential Croatian political weekly '' Nacional''. In 2008, Pukanić was assassinated by members of Croatian and Ser ...
. Knežević also provided many alleged details of the decades-long
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operation, Đukanović had been involved in. Conducted by journalist Nenad Jaćimović, the focus of the ''Blic'' interview was on cigarette smuggling operations through Serbia during the 1990s and its political fallout that continues to this day. In the interview, Knežević accused Đukanović, Subotić and their "cigarette smuggling cartel" of defrauding the Serbian budget of 300 million in unpaid taxes with the help of Jovica Stanišić, Serbian former state security chief and Milošević's second in command. Knežević further alleged that since the regime change in Serbia, Đukanović and Subotić needed a "friendly" government in Belgrade and to that end tried their best for years to reach a deal with Serbian president
Boris Tadić Boris Tadić ( sr-cyr, Борис Тадић, ; born 15 January 1958) is a Serbian politician who served as the president of Serbia from 2004 to 2012. Born in Sarajevo, he graduated from the University of Belgrade with a degree in psychology ...
and his circle. After allegedly getting nowhere with Tadić, according to Knežević, they then turned their attention to other players on the Serbian political scene such as
Tomislav Nikolić Tomislav Nikolić ( sr-Cyrl, Томислав Николић, ; born 15 February 1952) is a Serbian retired politician who served as the president of Serbia from 2012 to 2017. A former member of the far-right Serbian Radical Party (SRS), he di ...
and
Aleksandar Vučić Aleksandar Vučić ( sr-Cyrl, Александар Вучић, ; born 5 March 1970) is a Serbian politician serving as the president of Serbia since 2017, and as the president of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) since 2012. Vučić served ...
who met with Đukanović and Subotić during October 2007 in Paris' Ritz Hotel. Furthermore, according to Knežević, for this Đukanović and Subotić had the support of former
DGSE The General Directorate for External Security (french: link=no, Direction générale de la Sécurité extérieure, DGSE) is France's foreign intelligence agency, equivalent to the British MI6 and the American CIA, established on 2 April 1982. ...
intelligence operative Arnaud Danjean. Knežević also claimed that the cigarette cartel also poses a security threat to Boris Tadić and that even Croatian president
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gave Tadić documents during their meeting in
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on April 25, 2009 warning him of possible attacks on him. Subotić announced that he would sue ''Blic'' for libel. After Subotić wrote a press release that was distributed in Balkan print media outlets on August 11, 2009, in which he denies Knežević's charges and further questions Knežević's and ''Blic'' editor-in-chief Veselin Simonović's professional and moral credibility, Knežević wrote a lengthy response saying that he stands by every word from his ''Vijesti'', ''Blic'' and '' NIN'' interviews. In the same response, Knežević also provided further details of the murders of Radovan "Badža" Stojičić, Jusuf "Jusa" Bulić, Vanja Bokan, Goran Žugić, Darko "Beli" Raspopović, and Blagota "Baja" Sekulić (all of which he claimed are connected to cigarette smuggling with the murders of Stojičić, Bulić, and Bokan directly ordered and approved by Stanišić, Subotić, and Đukanović) by directly naming the individuals that carried them out as well as those that ordered them.Odgovor Ratka Kneževića Stanku Subotiću: Cane i Milo uklonili sve protivnike, ''Blic'', August 12, 2009


Editorial history

* Manjo Vukotić (1996-1998) *
Veselin Simonović Veselin (Cyrillic script: Веселин) is a masculine given name of Slavic origin. It may refer to: * Veselin Beshevliev (1900–1992), Bulgarian historian and philologist * Veselin Bliznakov (born 1944), Bulgarian politician *Veselin Branimirov ...
(1998 - 2014) *Marko Stjepanović (2014-2016) *Predrag Mihailović (since 2016)


See also

* List of Serbian newspapers *''
Alo! ''Alo!'' is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Belgrade, Serbia. Launched by Ringier AG (owners of another Serbian daily ''Blic'') on October 15, 2007, ''Alo!'' attempts to establish itself on the saturated Serbian daily tabloid market throu ...
'' *''
Glas javnosti ''Glas javnosti'' (Глас јавности, meaning "Voice of the Public") was a daily newspaper published in Belgrade. After publishing a newspaper from April 1998 until January 2010, the people behind the project have since then run an online ...
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References


External links


Blic online portalRingier Axel Springer Srbija, the paper's publisher
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