{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Segodnya'' Multimedia Publishing Group}} '''''Segodnya'' Multimedia Publishing Group''' was a joint stock company in Ukraine which operated from 1997 to 2022, holding multiple businesses in the publishing industry, including the newspaper Russian-language newspaper ''Segodnya''.
== History == Segodnya Multimedia was active in the publishing business from 1997, when the ''Segodnya'' newspaper began in Kyiv, initially under Segodnya Publishing Group CJSC. From August 2006, the holding company was headed by Guillermo Schmitt, the paper's editor-in-chief.<ref name="ag">{{cite news |title=Алена Громницкая стала новым гендиректором "Сегодня Мультимедиа" |url=https://ukraine.segodnya.ua/ukraine/alena-hromnitskaja-ctala-novym-hendirektorom-cehodnja-multimedia-257372.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210730033410/https://ukraine.segodnya.ua/ukraine/alena-hromnitskaja-ctala-novym-hendirektorom-cehodnja-multimedia-257372.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 30, 2021 |access-date=5 April 2024 |work=ukraine.segodnya.ua |date=11 July 2022 |language=ru}}</ref> In 2007, the company became Segodnya Multimedia PJSC and launched the online version of the newspaper, ''segodnya.ua''.<ref name=uapp/><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://segodnya-multimedia.com/?page=8|title = Корпоративный сайт ЧАО "Сегодня Мультимедиа"}}</ref>
In July 2011, Alyona Gromnitskaya became the general director of the company,<ref name="ag"/> leading editors at ''Segodnya'' to take industrial action in response to her editorial policy in December. In January 2012, the supervisory board announced its decision to fire editor-in-chief Igor Guzhva, with Gromnitskaya resigning voluntarily.<ref>{{cite web |title=Люди не для печати |url=http://kommersant.ua/doc/1853345 |access-date=5 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120415052317/http://kommersant.ua/doc/1853345 |archive-date=2012-04-15}}</ref> In April 2013, several journalists left the publication, many for the new daily ''Vesti'', which Guzhva had begun publishing. Olga Guk became editor-in-chief of ''Segodnya'', followed by Oles Buzina in 2015.
In September 2019 the company announced it would cease printing its flagship paper, but continue publishing news online, citing the deterioration of the print media market, digitalization and the growing influence of the internet. In 2022, after Ukrainian oligarch Rinat Akhmetov had exited his media assets, the company folded.<ref name="1574955845239medgrfolded">{{Cite news |date=11 July 2022|access-date=24 February 2023|language=English|title=Ukrainian Akhmetov hands media business over to government – statement|url=https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/economic/845239.html|work=Interfax-Ukraine}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=21 July 2022|access-date=24 February 2023|language=English|title=National TV Council annuls licenses of Rinat Akhmetov's TV companies|url=https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/847586.html|work=Interfax-Ukraine}}</ref>
Segodnya Publishing Group was a member of the Ukrainian Association of Press Publishers.<ref name=uapp>{{Cite web|url=http://www.uapp.org/members/85.html|title = ЗАТ "Сьогодні Мультімедіа" / Українська Асоціація Медіа Бізнесу}}</ref>
== Products == The main products of Segodnya Multimedia PrJSC were: * Newspaper Segodnya * Web portal segodnya.ua * Printing plant in Vyshhorod * Rio Weekly * Media-Press JSC * Donetskie Novosti LLC * Priazovskiy Rabochiy * Vecherniy Donetsk * gorod.dp.ua
== Ownership == The major owners of Segodnya Multimedia PrJSC were: * SCM Limited (Cyprus)<ref name=uapp/> * System Capital Management SC<ref name=uapp/> * Media Group Ukraine
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== External links == * [http://segodnya-multimedia.com/index.html Segodnya Multimedia official website] * [http://www.segodnya.ua Segodnya.ua]
Category:SCM Holdings Category:Mass media in Ukraine Category:2022 disestablishments in Ukraine Category:Publishing companies disestablished in 2022 Category:Publishing companies of Ukraine