Pandemic leaves Kosovo without printed daily newspapers

The printing presses stopped running at the start of the pandemic in Kosovo

PRISTINA, Kosovo -- Ibrahim Gashi sold daily newspapers in downtown Pristina for 35 years, until they didn't come anymore. Azem Qerkini, an accountant and newspaper collector, misses the time when he went to Skopje, the capital of neighboring North Macedonia, in search of a copy he needed. Imer Mushkolaj, a journalist, dreams of once more drinking his morning coffee while flipping through the daily papers. Until March last year Kosovo had five daily newspapers, though they all had small circulations. One of them, Koha, sold about 10,000 copies a day at times when the news was most interesting.