Media Outlet Capital Legal Entity Economedia Date of first publication 05/07/2022 Date of Latest Change 20/11/2024

1. Basic Requirements on Media’s Identity

1.1. Legal Entity Name

The Media Outlet, as Conforming Entity, shall provide the name designating the Legal Entity or entities under which it is conducting business. In some cases, this will be the company or public entity (branch of government, parliament, legally authorised state institution, etc.) that has ultimate legal ownership of the Media Outlet. This usually is the body that would be held liable in a court case. It is the body that enters into transactions such as paying employees and suppliers or receiving funds from readers, viewers, customers, advertisers and other sources of funding.

What is the Legal Entity Name?

Economedia

1.2. Contact Details and Identifiers

The contact details that shall be provided are the postal address and both a general telephone number and email address for the Legal Entity or entities designated in clause 1.1 “Legal Entity Name”, as well as existing identifiers. Clarification: This should be the contact details for the Legal Entity. Elsewhere in this document, means of contact for reader, viewer or listener enquiries, editorial input and other purposes are required.

What is the postal address for the Legal Entity?

Ivan Vazov str. 20
1000 Sofia
Bulgaria

What is the general telephone number for the Legal Entity?

+35924615122

What is the email address for the Legal Entity?

office@economedia.bg

Is the Legal Entity required to have a Tax ID, a Registration ID, a DUNS number and/or other identifiers?

Yes

What are these IDs for the Legal Entity?

131326269

Are there any other governmental or other identifiers that a certification body could use to verify the identity of the Legal Entity?

1.3. Description of Media Outlet

The Conforming Entity shall list all brand names, titles, publication names, etc. under which its Content is published, broadcast, printed or otherwise disseminated to the public or customers. These will be known for this document and this process collectively as the Media Outlet. It is that Media Outlet that will conform with this Journalism Trust Initiative Standard. This is the Conforming Entity. These include all names used on website URLs and on social media accounts, etc.

What Brand Name(s), titles, publication names, etc. do you use to publish Content?

There are a number of different print and digital products that are published under the umbrella brand of Capital. Capital is also a platform for business events and high profile industry conferences.

Print Products: Capital Weekly - a magazine like newspaper, a selection of well researched analytical stories on Bulgarian politics, economy, business, finance and world politics.

Special reports - about 25 magazines per year, titles like: Capital Cities, Top 100 companies, Industrial Researches and Rankings etc.

Digital Products: www.capital.bg - includes all the media content plus content created during events and conferences, webinars, etc.

Capital Weekly app (iOS, Android) - digital version of the content from the print weekly magazine and special editions.

Capital Pro app (iOS, Android) - morning and evening specially specially curated business news editions

Newsletters - about 10 per week: industry specific like Energy, Law, Marketing, etc.

Podcasts - The Voice of Capital (weekly), Kids and Money (a special series), DIGITALK The Podcast (a special series)

1.4. Distribution Channels and URLs

The Media Outlet shall list all URLs on which it publishes. If broadcast or audiovisual, the Media Outlet shall list all terrestrial frequencies, satellite, cable, streaming and other platforms on which it is distributed.

Does the Media Outlet publish on any URLs?

Yes

On what URLs do you publish?

capital.bg

Does the Media Outlet publish any content on any social media?

Yes

What are the social media URLs, handles, addresses or names that you use to publish?

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/capitalbg

Twitter - https://twitter.com/CapitalBg?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/capital.bg/

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/capital-bg/

Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0PrGEtZHl0QPDIzwHNzhNH

SoundCloud- https://soundcloud.com/capital-podcasts

Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/bg/podcast/%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BB-%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82-%D0%B3%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%8A%D1%82-%D0%BD%D0%B0-%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BB/id1483201389

Google Podcasts - https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuY2FwaXRhbC5iZy9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcy8

Does the Media Outlet publish any content by broadcasting and/or streaming?

Yes

What are the terrestrial frequencies, channels, satellite identifiers, other platforms or applications that you use to publish?

1.5. Safety Concerns

The Media Outlet shall at all times keep the safety (including digital safety and cybersecurity) of staff, contributors and owners as a primary concern. If full transparency of contact details or other information might endanger individuals, the Media Outlet shall describe what it can about the legitimate reasons for a lack of disclosure or use of pseudonyms for that purpose. Safety concerns shall not be misused to refrain from disclosure.

Do the Media Outlet's Editorial Guidelines state that the safety of all journalists shall be treated as a primary concern?

Yes

Are there any reasons that the Media Outlet has for withholding information on any of the questions as part of this JTI Standard process?

1.6. Location

The Media Outlet shall provide the physical address of the headquarters of the legal entity referred to above in 1.1 Legal Entity Name. Clarification: This is necessary in cases where the address listed in the Contact Details clause (1.2) does not specify a physical location, or where the location designated by the contact details referred to in 1.2 is not the same location as the headquarters. Clause 1.5, Safety Concerns, may be applied.

Is the physical address of the Legal Entity different from the postal address according to question no. 2?

Do you have a safety-related reason for not providing it?

1.7. Founding Date

The founding date of the Legal Entity referred to in clause 1.1 “Legal Entity Name” shall be specified. If the Media Outlet designated in clause 1.3 “Media Outlet” has a different founding date, the history of former legal entities and their founding dates shall be listed.

Is the founding date of the Media Outlet (as in clause 1.3. question no. 7) different from that of the Legal Entity (as in clause 1.1. question no. 1)?

Yes

Provide a history of previous/former Legal Entities and their founding dates.

Capital Weekly newspaper was founded in 1993 by a company, named "Agency for Investment Information". The owners were Ivo Prokopiev (the first editor in chief of the newspaper) and Phillip Harmandzhiev. In 1994 Reuters invests in Capital Weekly through a loan and an option to acquire 33% of the newspaper. In 2005 the media outlets of AII became a part of the family of Verlagsuppe Handelsblatt GmbH. A new company "Economedia" JSCO was founded, in which 50% were owned by AII and 50% by Handelsblatt. At the end of 2007 the publishers of AII bought back 100% of the shares of the company from Verlagsuppe Handelsblatt GmbH.

In 2010 Philip Harmandzhiev sold his 49% of the shares of "Economedia" to Theodore Zahov. Ivo Prokopiev kept his 51% of the shares of the company.

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