It goes back to the state of emergency, declared following the assassination of Serbia's Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić, when another daily tabloid named Nacional was shut down.

Despite an appeal, the company's equipment, including 118 computers, was seized on 21 April 2003, two days before the state of emergency ended.

[5] Notably, Dragan J. Vučićević (who later founded of Informer), ex Nacional deputy-editor-in-chief moved to Kurir.

In 2016, former Kurir editors Milan Ladjević and Saša Milovanović left and founded the Srpski Telegraf paper.

That same year, the "Law on Public Information" was changed drastically to increase fines for media which do not respect the rules of the profession.