NIN

NIN stands for weekly informative paper. It is one of the oldest Serbian political news weekly papers. It was founded originally on January 26 1935 by a group of leftist intellectuals: Veselin Vuckovic and Sveta Popovic as owners and editors-in-chief, and Veselin Maslesa, Jovan Popovic, and Oton Krstanovic as editors. The group was a front for the then illegal Communist Party of Yugoslavia. After testing the attention of the government censors for eight moths, the magazine was banned after 26 issues in September 7 1935. New NIN was launched after WWII, on January 7 1951 by a group of liberal communist intellectuals from Belgrade. From the start, the magazine tried to push the margins of the acceptable criticism of the authorities, in the process causing many a storm, some of which almost ended with a ban. At first an independent magazine, NIN became a part of the Politika holding company in 1961, where the magazine remained until the early nineties. At that time Politika was firmly under control of the Serbian regime, and NIN managed to preserve its independent editorial policy by striking out on its own. In the recent years, the magazine's editorial policy has been critical of the authorities, but more "patriotic" than for example that of Vreme. However, since the end of the NATO bombardment of FR Yugoslavia, NIN has significantly radicalized its tone, both in its critizism of the authorities and actions of the Serbian armed forces in Kosmet. The on-line edition of NIN carries most articles from the printed edition, in Serbian. Older issues of NIN are archived at the Serbian Unity Congress server.

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