SloveniaOwnership & classification
Founded: 2003
Ownership
The Slovenia Times, the country's main English-language news outlet (launched 1 March 2003), was historically published by the private firm Domus d.o.o. on behalf of the Government Communication Office. Since November 2022 it has been acquired and is published by the Slovenian Press Agency (Slovenska tiskovna agencija, STA), the national news agency, which is wholly owned by the Republic of Slovenia. Editorial and corporate control therefore now sits with a state-owned public-service news agency rather than a private company.
Funding
Operates as a digital news outlet (and historically a print magazine) financed through advertising and through its parent STA, which receives a public-service budget from the state for its core agency mandate. There is no significant party or foreign-investor financing.
Affiliation & stance
Because it is now owned and published by the state-owned Slovenian Press Agency rather than a private commercial company, The Slovenia Times is best classified as STATE-affiliated (a public-sector outlet) rather than fully INDEPENDENT. STA is bound by law to professional, non-partisan reporting, so the outlet's editorial line is broadly neutral/center, but the controlling entity is the state via STA.
Editorial lean
- Our estimate
- Center
- Measured from coverage
- Centerbased on 141
82/100
Factual
78/100
Objective
321
Articles
321
reports
Factual: How accurately its articles report the facts, judged against primary sources and the cross-outlet consensus. Only articles that cite their sources are counted.
Objective: How neutral the writing is — whether reporting keeps the writer’s own preferences and opinions out of the article.
Recent coverage
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