Večernji list

Front page of the June 15, 2009 issue
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Berliner
Owner	Styria Medien AG
Publisher	Večernji list d.d.
Editor-in-chief	Goran Ogurlić[1]
Founded	1959
Language	Croatian
Headquarters	Slavonska avenija 4, Zagreb, Croatia
ISSN	0350-5006
Official website	http://www.vecernji.hr

Večernji list (English: Evening paper) is a Croatian daily newspaper published in Zagreb.

The newspaper was started in the 1950s. Its ancestor Večernji vjesnik ("Evening Courier") appeared for the first time on June 3, 1957 in Zagreb on 24 pages^[2] but quickly merged with Narodni list ("People's Paper") to form what is today known as Večernji list.

Večernji list remained true to this reputation after the 1990 election. Even so, Franjo Tuđman and his ruling Croatian Democratic Union expressed great interest in taking even more direct control over the newspaper through privatisation. Ivić Pašalić, one of Tudjman's most trusted advisors took part in that process. However, although the process wasn't particularly transparent, no actual criminal wrongdoings were discovered in subsequent inquiries, despite a concerted campaign of Nacional weekly to prove otherwise. During the Bosnian War, Večernji list earned a bad reputation as one of the main Croatian media spreading propaganda.^{[citation needed]} After the war it took part as a key Croatian nationalistic paper supporting Croat nationalists in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.^{[citation needed]}

More damaging for Večernji list was the start of Jutarnji list, a rival daily newspaper, in April 1998. Večernji list lost the top position in the Croatian media market.

In early 2000s, the newspaper, officially owned by a Virgin Islands financial group, was sold to Styria Medien AG, an Austria-based media group. Under new management, the newspaper began to win back its readership, especially when it took a more critical approach towards the government. This approach intensified when Ivo Sanader became the country's prime minister. That, combined with the appointment of Miljenko Manjkas, an old Tuđman cadre, for editor-in-chief, and especially some non-objective anticommunist texts, led many to speculate that Ivić Pašalić, Sanader's archrival, might indeed be behind the newspaper. According to an article in Jutarnji list, Sanader recently threatened Styria AG's management with an investigation of privatisation and subsequent sales unless the newspaper's editorial policy was changed.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Editions

Večernji list has ten regional and two foreign editions:^[3]

• Dalmatia
• Istria-Primorje-Lika
• Slavonia and Baranja
• Slavonia
• Podravina and Bilogora
• Varaždin and Međimurje
• Zagorje
• Sisak
• Karlovac
• Zagreb
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• International edition

[edit] References

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[edit] External links

• (Croatian) Official site