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Founded: 1959
Ownership
Delo, Slovenia's traditional newspaper of record, is published by Delo d.o.o. and has since 2015 been controlled by FMR (FMR Financiranje in upravljanje nalozb d.o.o.), the investment holding linked to the Kolektor industrial conglomerate and the industrialist Stojan Petric. FMR bought Delo from brewer Pivovarna Lasko in 2015. The publishing business underwent a structural reorganisation/spin-off in 2025. The paper was founded on 1 May 1959 from the merger of Slovenski porocevalec and Ljudska pravica.
Funding
Financed through newspaper sales and subscriptions, a digital paywall, and advertising, backed by its industrial-holding owner; it does not receive state or party funding.
Affiliation & stance
Privately owned by a domestic industrial investor with no formal party or state control, which supports an INDEPENDENT classification. Editorially it is generally seen as centre-left/liberal-leaning, but its independence rests on commercial private ownership; the concentration of control in one owner and the 2025 restructuring have drawn some scrutiny over editorial autonomy.
Editorial lean
- Our estimate
- Lean Left
- Measured from coverage
- Centerbased on 463
83/100
Factual
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We haven't received a penny from Darce.
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[Video] British marines in a spectacular nighttime operation have seized the Russian tanker Smyrtos off the English Channel
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