Alexej Fulmek

Alexej Fulmek graduated from the Faculty of Arts at Comenius University in Bratislava. After completing his studies, he joined the daily Smena in 1989 as a culture editor. Between 1991 and 1992, he worked as a war correspondent in conflict zones of the former Soviet Union, reporting on the Moscow coup, the war in Transnistria, and the conflicts in Abkhazia and Georgia.

In the autumn of 1992, at the age of 26, he became deputy editor-in-chief of Smena. In January 1993, together with Karol Ježík, he co-founded the daily newspaper SME.

He is currently the Chairman of the Board and CEO of Petit Press, a.s., Chairman of the Slovak Association of Publishers, co-founder and Chairman of the Audit Bureau of Circulations Slovakia (ABC SR), and a member of the Board of the Media Development Investment Fund, an international organization supporting independent journalism in countries with limited or emerging democracies.