News Maker
The company that runs the Newsmaker.md portal, News Maker LLC, was founded by journalist Vladimir Soloviov in August 2014. The company changed ownership in 2022. The change of partners took place through a sale and purchase agreement concluded on May 27, 2022. 50% of the share capital went to the portal's executive director Olga Cenușă, also the managing director of the LLC. 24% and 26% of the share capital was distributed between the deputy editor-in-chief and the then editor-in-chief Olga Gnatkova and Galina Vasilieva, respectively.
Key Facts
| Business Form | Commercial / For-profit |
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| Legal Form | Limited Liability Company LLC |
| Business Sectors | The company is registered to carry out the following activities: activities of advertising agencies, advertising, electronic mail activities, business and management consultancy activities, market research and public opinion polling activities, publishing of books, brochures and other publications, database activities |
Ownership
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Facts
| Founding Year | 2014 |
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| Founder | Vladimir Soloviov Vladimir Soloviov was born in Odessa region, Ukraine. He grew up in the Transnistrian region. In 2002, he graduated from the State University of Moldova, majoring in Political Science, after which he started working in local media. He joined Kommersant in 2005 and specialized in international affairs. During the presidency of Dmitri Medvedev, he worked as a journalist in the press group covering the President's activities. As a reporter, he reported on the Russian-Georgian war in 2008; the massacre in Osh, Kyrgyz Republic, in 2010; the events in the Kazakh city of Zhanaozen (oil workers protests) in 2011. From 2012 to 2014, he headed the online publication Kommersant-Moldova, and after its closure in August 2014 he founded the news portal Newsmaker.md. In April 2017, he publicly stated that he was being followed and believed this would be related to his professional activity. Several media organizations described the case as an act of persecution and a serious violation of the right of journalists to exercise their profession unhindered. As of January 2018, Vladimir Soloviov is no longer the editor-in-chief and director of NewsMaker.md, but remained the sole owner of News Maker LLC until 2022. In 2020, Soloviov became editor-in-chief of the Russian channel TV Rain, a Russian opposition TV station in exile. He continues to write for Kommersant. In April 2022, he was detained for 5 hours by representatives from Tiraspol. He was removed from the building where the Unified Control Commission (UCC) holds its working meetings and taken to the office of the Transnistrian "Security Service". |
| Employees | 46 |
| Contact | str. Columna 133/1 mun. Chișinău MD-2012 Republica Moldova office@newsmaker.md +373 62 073 333 https://newsmaker.md/ |
| Tax / ID Number | 1014600022332 |
| Revenue | MDL 11.968.894 / USD 669.775 (2023) |
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| Operating Profit | MDL - 236.168 / USD 13.215 (2023)Missing Data |
| Advertising (in % of total funding) | MDL 1.907.048 / USD 106.717 (2023) |
| Active Transparency | company/channel informs proactively and comprehensively about its ownership, data is constantly updated and easily verifiable | |
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| Meta Data | Advertising data and market share are not publicly available. In response to the MOM information request, the company provided the CVs of the co-owners and the editor-in-chief. | |
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