Večernje novosti is a Serbian daily tabloid newspaper. Founded in 1953, it quickly grew into a high-circulation daily. Novosti also employs foreign correspondents spread around 23 national capitals around the globe. The principal Yugoslav-level media companies were Borba and Tanjug. Borba published two daily newspapers, Borba and Večernje novosti. Borba was a daily broad-sheet, was well known as the official voice of the governament, and in the early 1950s, it was the best-selling newspaper in Yugoslavia. The second daily newspaper published by Borba was Večernje novosti, a well-edited evening paper. It was a modern tabloid with short news, human interest stories, big photos, well-written headlines, and many sports, city and regional reports. For a long period of time Veĉernje novosti had the largest circulation in Yugoslavia. Only Večernji list from Zagreb occasionally beat them.
History
It first appeared on stands on 16 October 1953, edited by Slobodan Glumac, who set the newspaper's tone for years to come. Housing an extensive network of journalists and contributors, the paper reported and commented on various issues and events according to its mantra: fast, brief and clear. In mid-1980s Novosti got a big scoop by publishing the old files of the State Commission for War Crimes, which shed new light on Austrian president Kurt Waldheim's involvement in war crimes during World War II. The file F-25572 dated 17 November 1947, which Novosti published for the first time gave new details of Waldheim's whereabouts in Yugoslavia during the war. In September 1986, parts of the SANU Memorandum were published by Večernje novosti. 's painting "Orphan on mother's grave", presented as an actual photograph of "Serbian boy whose whole family was killed by Bosnian Muslims", published by Večernje novosti during Bosnian War. Some people tough that Večernje novosti tried to use a doctored photo of Milošević's pre-election town meeting in Beraneon the cover of its 21 September 2000 edition to increase number of people present with photo-montage. 2 picture of event from same angle where taken and then side by side pasted and as such published. But nevertheless video from same event show people where actually present on other side and if it where actual panoramic picture published showing from left to right it would not change perception of number of people present as it would show full stadium. On 4 February 2006, retired basketball ace Vlade Divac expressed his desire to invest in Novosti, perhaps even buy the majority stake, but decided to lie low until the paper's complex ownership structure disputes are resolved. There was also an initial interest from two media conglomerates, WAZ-Mediengruppe and Northcliffe Media, a division of Daily Mail and General Trust in buying a stake in Večernje novosti.
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