Flaka Surroi
Flaka Surroi (born 1963) is a Kosovo-Albanian journalist and author. She is the director general of the media company Koha Group, one of the leading media companies in Kosovo, since 2004.[1] She comes from the family of politician and diplomat Rexhai Surroi, and is a sibling of the politician Veton Surroi (who founded the aforementioned media company).
Surroi regularly publishes op-eds in the Koha Ditore newspaper, and has published translations of English, Spanish and Serbian books.[2]
Life and career
[edit]Surroi was born in 1963 in Pristina, Kosovo.[2] She finished her high school in Mexico, where her father was serving as an ambassador, and graduated at University of Pristina.[3] Before the Kosovo war of 1999, Surroi has worked in several international NGOs.[4] When her brother Veton Surroi formed the weekly magazine KOHA, she contributed as a film editor.[5] After the war, she led the Community Development Fund from 1999 to 2004, founded by the World Bank to support Kosovo in post-war recovery.[2][4] She worked for a short period of time as Secretary General of the Prime Minister of Kosovo.[3][6]
After the re-entrance of her brother into politics in 2003, Surroi took the helm and sole ownership of the family enterprise Koha Group the following year.[5] She would own 100% of the company by 2006. Koha Group consists of a national TV broadcaster called Kohavision, the biggest daily newspaper in Kosovo Koha Ditore (Daily Time), a publishing company, and other enterprises.
During her tenure as the head of Koha Ditore, the company has kept the leading position in Kosovo market.[7]
Advocacy
[edit]In 2013, she heavily supported protests against the Hashim Thaçi administration as being "thieves" and has promoted herself as an advocate of gender equality.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "Flaka Surroi: KOHA nuk është në shitje". Koha.net (in Albanian). 24 February 2014. Archived from the original on 6 March 2016. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
- ^ a b c "Surroi, Flaka". Traduki English. Archived from the original on 28 October 2019. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
- ^ a b "Flaka Surroi". Media Ownership Monitor. Balkan Investigative Reporting Network. Retrieved 5 January 2025.
- ^ a b "Kosovo case study" (PDF). 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2010.
- ^ a b KOHA Ditore: 10 vjetët e parë - Monografi [KOHA Ditore: The first 10 years - Monography] (PDF) (in Albanian). Pristina: Botimet Koha. 31 March 2007. pp. 15, 159. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 June 2007.
- ^ 20 Years Riinvest (PDF) (in Albanian). Pristina: Riinvest Institute. 15 May 2015. p. 50. ISBN 978-9951-430-46-3.
- ^ "Kosovo poll shows Koha Ditore most read newspaper, RTK most watched TV". BBC Monitoring International Reports. 12 December 2008. Retrieved 28 June 2010.
- ^ Surroi, Flaka (17 March 2013). "Habemus Populus" (PDF) (editorial) (in Albanian). Koha. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 October 2013.
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