''Vjesnik'' () was a

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published in

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. Originally established in 1940 as a wartime illegal publication of the Communist Party of Croatia, it later built and maintained a reputation as Croatia's

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during most of its post-war history. It ceased publication in April 2012. "Tiskara Vjesnik" and "Vjesnik d.d." were the namesakes of the ''Vjesniks printing office and publishing house, respectively. During

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and the Nazi-allied

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regime which controlled the country, the paper served as the primary media publication of the

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movement. The August 1941 edition of the paper featured the statement "''

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''" () on the cover, which was afterwards accepted as the official slogan of the entire resistance movement and was often quoted in post-war

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. Its heyday was between 1952 and 1977 when its Wednesday edition (''Vjesnik u srijedu'' or VUS) regularly achieved circulations of 100,000 and was widely read across

. From late 1974 the publishing house ran a subsidiary office in

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which published the edition of 5,000-10,000 copies targeted at numerous Yugoslav workers ('

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') and other citizens living in the country. Following Croatia's independence and the

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in the early 1990s its circulation steadily began to dwindle, as ''Vjesnik'' came under the control of the

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(HDZ), at the time the ruling conservative party. Ever since the 1990s, ''Vjesnik'' was seen as always taking a pro-government editorial stance, and it even changed its name briefly in 1992 to ''Novi Vjesnik'' in an attempt to distance itself from its own communist history. However, the name was controversial and was changed the next year. A sharp drop in average daily circulation occurred from 1997 (21,348) to 2005 (9,660)http://www.sabor.hr/fgs.axd?id=4195 down from over 100,000 in 1960. In early 2012 the paper ran into serious financial difficulties, and in April it ceased printing.Ugašen zagrebački "Vjesnik"
By May 2012 ''Vjesnik'' operated only as a web portal. By 12 June 2012, the web portal was still accessible, but it was no longer updated, and in July 2012 the website was defunct.

Editors-in-chief

*Šerif Šehović (1945) *Živko Vnuk (1950) *Frane Barbieri (1950–1953) *Joško Palavršić (1953–1955) *Božidar Novak (1955–1963) *Milan Beslać (1963–1966) * Josip Vrhovec (1968–1970) *Milovan Baletić (1970–1971) *Stjepan Košarog (1971–1972) *Drago Auguštin (1972–1975) *Pero Pletikosa (1975–1983) *Davor Šošić (1983–1986) *Uroš Šoškić (1986–1987) *Stevo Maoduš (1987–1990) *

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(1990–1992) *Radovan Stipetić (1992–1993) *Krešimir Fijačko (1993–1994) *Ante Ivković (1994–1996) *

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(1996–2000) * Igor Mandić (2000) *Zlatko Herljević (2000–2001) *Krešimir Fijačko (2001–2004) *Andrea Latinović (2004–2005) *Darko Đuretek (2005–2010) *Bruno Lopandić (2010–2012)

References

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