MINA

What is MINA?

MINA is a Montenegrin news agency at mina.news. Its footer gives its name as “Crnogorska nezavisna informativna agencija”, in English Montenegro Independent News Agency, and the company as Infomont doo/MINA.^[1] Its services, as its menu lists them, are the general service MINA, MINA Business, MINA VIDEO and a sport service, with announcements and press releases.^[1]

Its impressum names Infomont doo as publisher. It lists seven shareholders: Jaša Jovićević and Danilo Ćetković with 26 per cent each, Petar Vučinić with 20.9, Dimitrije Vučinić with 10.64, Hajdana Vukmanović Kuzman with 6.46, and Ivica Seferović and Kristina Mihailović with 5 each. It names Danilo Ćetković as board chairman, Jaša Jovićević as executive director, Milan Žugić as editor-in-chief and Emil Ličina as sports editor.^[2] Those are the agency's own statements, as retrieved on 24 September 2026, and the page shows no date for them.

What does MINA cover?

MINA's sport output is published as a “Sport paket” at mina.news/category/sport-paket.^[3] Its headlines from 21 to 24 September 2026 covered basketball, including an item headed “Zaštititi ugled i interes ABA lige”, and water polo, including Budva's 18:13 win over Primorac in Kotor and a season-opening win for Jadran. They also covered handball, with Lovćen's fixture against Berhem of Luxembourg, a Montenegrin boxer's approach to a world-title fight, kickboxing, chess, the Montenegrin veterans' 16 medals at the Balkan athletics championship in Craiova and ticket sales for the football team's match against Cyprus. A shooting item reported that Ivo Stanišić of the Budva shooting club had won the regional league in trap.^[3] The agency's report of the Budva match placed it in “prvog kola Regionalne vaterpolo lige”, the first round of the regional water polo league.^[8]

The agency's own account of its work states that it has published more than a million items through its two services, and that 14 journalists work in its newsroom in two production teams. The same page states that, besides its services in Montenegrin, “agencija produkuje i verzije servisa na engleskom jeziku”.^[4] Those are the agency's own statements.

How large is MINA's audience?

No audited measure of news-agency copy exists in Montenegro, and no audience figure for mina.news from an audited source was retrieved. A study dated October 2025, prepared with the OSCE Mission's support and published on the AMU's website, states: “Zasada u Crnoj Gori ne postoji usuglašen i industrijski općeprihvaćen jedinstveni sustav mjerenja gledanosti/slušanosti medija.”^[5]

An agency's reach runs through the outlets that carry its copy, and MINA publishes no client list on the pages retrieved. Reporters Without Borders, in its 2026 Index, states that Montenegro has “dozens of registered media outlets, including several daily newspapers, national private and public TV channels and one news agency”; the passage does not name the agency.^[6]

Since when has MINA existed?

MINA's own pages give two years. Its “O nama” page states: “Informativna agencija MINA počela je sa radom 2001. godine”, and describes its origin in a restructuring of Montena Fax, which it calls the “tadašnje jedine crnogorske informativne agencije”. It states that this restart “u značajnoj mjeri je podržala organizacija IREX”, which was then running a programme of support for independent Montenegrin media funded by USAID.^[4] Its footer carries the line “© 2002 Crnogorska Informativno Novinska Agencija”.^[1] Both are the agency's own statements; this page adopts neither as a founding date.

The same page states that the agency adopted an updated ethical code in November 2019 in cooperation with the Croatian agency HINA.^[4]

Why does MINA matter in Montenegro's sport?

MINA runs a sport service with a named sports editor, and its sport package reports the domestic leagues, the national federations and the national teams from day to day.^[2][3] Its copy on 23 September 2026 gave a match score, Budva 18, Primorac 13, where the public broadcaster's headline gave only Budva's 18 goals.^[3]

The agency describes itself as “jedan od najmanjih medija u Crnoj Gori” and states that it “predstavlja nezaobilazan alat u funkcionisanju svakog crnogorskog medija koji ima informativnu produkciju”.^[4] That is the agency's own claim; no client list or independent measure of it was retrieved.

The market it serves is monitored. The Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom states: “The media market remains highly concentrated in terms of both revenue and audience share.” It also states that “The AV regulator has also launched the first public digital register of media ownership.”^[7] Neither passage names MINA, whose ownership is given above from its own impressum.