Slobodna Dalmacija
| Slobodna Dalmacija | |
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| description | Croatian-language daily newspaper |
| publishing company | Europapress Holding |
| First edition | June 17, 1943 |
| Frequency of publication | Every day |
| Editor-in-chief | Krunoslav Kljaković |
| editor | SLOBODNA DALMACIJA dd |
| Manager | Ana Kušeta |
| Web link | Slobodna Dalmacija |
| ISSN |
0350-4662 |
| ZDB | 1169088-4 |
The Slobodna Dalmacija (Free Dalmatia) is a Croatian-speaking daily newspaper with editorial headquarters in Split .
The first edition was published in a shed on Mount Mosor by Tito's partisans . Even before Split was captured on October 26, 1944, the newspaper was published in various cities such as Brštanovo , Split , Livno , Hvar and Vis .
Although the Slobodna Dalmacija was intended for the population in the Croatian coastal region of Dalmatia , in the following years it grew into one of the most widely read and appreciated newspapers in the former Yugoslavia and achieved the highest sales figures in the late 1980s.
Part of the success was achieved through the respected satirical pages of Slobodna and the editorial policy of the former editor Joško Kulušić . In this way, the newspaper encouraged the emergence of new political ideas in what was then communist Yugoslavia and also contributed significantly to the break-up of Yugoslavia. As columnists from both the right and left political wings were busy, Slobodna was one of the few free newspapers in Croatia in the early 1990s.
This situation was a thorn in the side of the newly elected Croatian government under Franjo Tuđman , so that the newspaper was massively opposed to its freedom of the press and in the privatization process of the pro -government Miroslav Kutle , who maintained good contacts with the former Croatian Defense Minister Gojko Šušak and benefited from dubious government decisions, 37 % of Slobodna Dalmacija took over for a purchase price of 3.7 million Deutschmarks . As a result, numerous employees critical of the government were laid off.
Miroslav Kutle's editorial policy followed an ultra-nationalist course, especially when the Croats found themselves in armed conflict with the Bosniaks . The Slobodna Dalmacija lost a considerable number of its readers, who did not feel addressed by Kutle's policy, and had to contend with serious financial problems after the end of the war in 1995.
At the end of the 1990s, Slobodna Dalmacija fell back into the hands of the Croatian government, this time into the hands of the center-left government under Ivica Račan , in order to prevent the impending financial collapse. In 2001 a new editorial team was set up and the newspaper's ultra-nationalist stance was abandoned.
In May 2005 Slobodna Dalmacija was sold to Europapress Holding .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Slobodna Dalmacija - Imprint ( Croatian )