Novine srbske
Novine srbske ( Cyrillic ; "Новине србске") in German (in today's transcription) "the Serbian newspaper" was the first newspaper in the Principality of Serbia . It was published on 5./17. January 1834 under the direction of Dimitri Davidovic in Kragujevac and afterwards in Belgrade , at the time when Serbia was developing into a modern civil state. Novine srbske was primarily the official newspaper of the Principality of Serbia, which, under Davidovic's editorial team, has also developed into a political newspaper.
Naming
The first name was "Новине србске" until December 24, 1842. On January 2, 1843, the name was changed to "Србске новине". From March 1870 the title was "Српске новине".
background
The emergence of the press in the Principality of Serbia is closely related to the development of the urban population as an independent social class. The relatively peaceful development of Serbia after the Second Serbian Uprising caused the rapid development of the economy - trade and handicrafts - that led to the formation of the first bourgeoisie . Extruding Turkey and with the building of the Serbian government, another social class was formed - the bureaucracy. And so a city population was formed from traders, craftsmen and merchants, who slowly but visibly emphasized their economic, political and above all cultural interests.
The Serbian newspapers
“Novine srbske” was founded primarily with the aim of spreading education and culture, but above all, its content made it a political journal. The newspaper was published once a week; on Saturdays on two pages. The annual subscription was two talers . The subscription was carried out in the district courts and the newspapers were sent to the subscribers from there. Your editor Dimitri Davidovic had many years of experience in journalism in Vienna , the European Center; It enabled Davidovic to exercise all of his journalistic and editorial quality; The state printing house in which the newspaper was printed had good technology and skilled craftsmen who came from abroad. The newspaper had the largest number of subscribers in 1834 and 1835; By the summer of the first year the circulation was 600 sheets, later the number of subscribers increased. Davidovic imagined the newspaper not only as a means of information, but also as a means to share your own opinions and attitudes. Therefore, a conflict quickly arose with Miloš Obrenović , who ordered censorship for the Serbian newspapers. Prince Obrenovic let Davidovic know that a journalist in Serbia has nothing to do with politics; His job is to publish official information and to convey news from newspapers given to him by the rectorate. By disregarding these commandments, Davidovic was excluded from his work.