Tema
Tema is a daily newspaper and has been published since 1999. It has a print daily edition and an online edition in gazetatema.net. According to the owner, Tema prints 2,000 copies daily and has 800,000 up to 1,000,000 daily visits on its online website.
Audience Share
15.19%
Ownership Type
Private
Geographic Coverage
National
Content Type
Paid content
Media Companies / Groups
Tema
Ownership Structure
Gazeta Tema is published by Mero Baze, sole proprietorship.
Voting Rights
Only the shareholder has the right to vote.
Individual Owner
General Information
Founding Year
1999
Affiliated Interests Founder
Mero Baze – is a journalist and media entrepreneur. He worked as journalist in various media outlets, including Voice of America and Radio Free Europe since 1990s and opened his own newspaper in 1999. He is known for his daily editorials mostly on politics and for "Antena Brenda Familjes" (Antena within the Family), a satyrical daily column. He directed a TV Show called Faktor Plus in Vizion Plus TV channel between 2008 and 2012.
He is known for being a supporter of former President and Prime Minister Sali Berisha up to 2008 when he was transformed in a formidable critic of his rule. Baze faced government pressure on his business, threats and attacks due to his critiques on government dealings.
Affiliated Interests Ceo
Mero Baze – is a journalist and media entrepreneur. He worked as journalist in various media outlets, including Voice of America and Radio Free Europe since 1990s and opened his own newspaper in 1999. He is known for his daily editorials mostly on politics and for "Antena Brenda Familjes" (Antena within the Family), a satyrical daily column. He directed a TV Show called Faktor Plus in Vizion Plus TV channel between 2008 and 2012.
He is known for being a supporter of former President and Prime Minister Sali Berisha up to 2008 when he was transformed in a formidable critic of his rule. Baze faced government pressure on his business, threats and attacks due to his critiques on government dealings.
His newspaper was evicted from a government owned building for which he signed a 20-year lease contract in 2009. Baze was violently beaten by Rezart Taçi, a controversial businessman, after reporting on the murky privatization of Albanian oil refinery Armo and tax evasion.
Baze pioneered online media in 1999 while Tema online become a reference point after 2009. Since 2014, he owns 20% of Tema TV, a news channel streamed online and in Digitalb platform. Baze is author of various non-fiction books.
Affiliated Interests Editor-In-Chief
Bledi Lumani – is a journalist.
Contact
Banese private, prane Komunes Golem, Golem Albania
Email: merobaze@gmail.com
Website: www.gazetatema.net
Financial Information
Revenue (in Mill. $)
0.17 Mio. $ / 21.37 Mio. Lek
Operating Profit (in Mill. $)
0.07 Mio. $ / 9.25 Mio. Lek
Advertising (in % of total funding)
Missing Data
Market Share
3.6%
Further Information
Meta Data
The ownership structure and financial statement are publicly available on the Albanian National Business Registry. The financial data provided are for 2016. The Central Bank's average exchange rate for 2016 was used to convert the amounts into USD. See sources for more. Mero Baze replied to the information request made by MOM team on 18 January 2018. Market share is calculated as company revenues in percent of total revenues of 12 print media companies. See sources for more. For the purpose of evaluating weight of assets and revenues of this company in the print media market, MOM have calculated the value of assets, revenues and profits of 11 Print Media Companies. The companies/outlets included in the calculation are as follows: Panorama, Gazeta Shqiptare, Koha Jone, Mapo, Shekulli, Tema, Dita, Shqiptarja.com, Standard, Sot News and Monitor.
