BAOwnership & classification
Founded: 1943
Ownership
Oslobodjenje ("Liberation") was founded on 30 August 1943 as an anti-fascist Partisan newspaper. After post-war state and then employee/Sarajevo Brewery ownership phases, it is today owned by the company Oslobodjenje d.o.o., roughly 99% controlled by Bosnian businessman Mujo Selimovic through his firm Consulting & PR; minority shareholders include Sanela Karahmet, Amra Kebo, Najim Marusic and Aldijana Omeragic.
Funding
Financed commercially through newspaper sales, a paid digital content model, and advertising, rather than any state budget; it is a private, market-funded daily.
Affiliation & stance
Oslobodjenje is privately owned by a businessman rather than a party, church or the state, giving it an INDEPENDENT classification consistent with the site's tag. Editorially it is regarded as a centrist-to-centre-left, civic/pro-Bosnian title with a strong anti-nationalist legacy from its wartime reporting during the Siege of Sarajevo.
Editorial lean
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- Lean Left
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