Vreme

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Vreme
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Vreme cover, 25 January 1997
Editor-in-chiefFilip Švarm
Categories News magazine
First issueOctober 29, 1990
CountrySerbia
Based inBelgrade
LanguageSerbian
Website http://www.vreme.com
ISSN 0353-8028

Vreme ( Serbian for 'Time') is a liberal weekly news magazine based in Belgrade, Serbia.

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History

In 1990, dissatisfied with the media climate in SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia's largest constituent unit, a group of liberal Serbian intellectuals, including prominent lawyer Srđa Popović, decided to start a weekly news magazine. Following a seven-month preparation throughout the year, Vreme was launched with its first issue coming out on 29 October 1990, [1] a little over a month before the 1990 general election in SR Serbia as the entire country of SFR Yugoslavia was transforming its governance from a one-party system under the Yugoslav Communist League (SKJ) to a multi-party one.

Most of Vreme's original staff were journalists from Politika and NIN . It characterizes itself as "a magazine without lies, hatred, or prejudice" and opposed nationalistic mobilization for the Yugoslav wars. [2] [3] During Slobodan Milošević's reign, Vreme was one of a handful of independent Serbian media outlets which resisted his influence and control and tried to counterbalance nationalist rhetoric. [4] In May 1992, it published articles on the destruction of cities in Bosnia and Croatia, and in November 1992 described attacks on cultural heritage sites (by both Serb and non-Serb forces). [5] Its design is modeled after its U.S. counterparts Time and Newsweek . [6]

In 1993, 30,000 copies were produced weekly with a quarter of its sales abroad. Vreme has established a reputation as one of the most reliable media sources of the former Yugoslavia and its writers have been largely cited by international media. [2] [7]

Vreme has started a number of supplements such as Vreme novca (Time of Money), Vreme zabave (Time for Fun), and has become a publishing house.

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References

  1. Robert Thomas (January 1999). Serbia Under Milošević: Politics in the 1990s. C. Hurst & Co. Publishers. p. 15. ISBN   978-1-85065-367-7 . Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  2. 1 2 Gordy, Eric D. (1999). The Culture of Power in Serbia: Nationalism and the Destruction of Alternatives. p. 69. Penn State Press. ISBN   0-271-01958-1.
  3. Kurspahić, Kemal (2003). Prime Time Crime: Balkan Media in War and Peace. US Institute of Peace Press. pp. 54–55. ISBN   978-1-929-22338-1.
  4. Cull, Nicholas John; Holbrook Culbert, David; Welch, David (2003). Propaganda and Mass Persuasion: A Historical Encyclopedia, 1500 to the Present. ABC-CLIO. pp. 36–37. ISBN   978-1-576-07820-4.
  5. Walasek, Helen (2016). Bosnia and the Destruction of Cultural Heritage. Routledge. p. 91. ISBN   978-1-317-17299-4.
  6. Udovicki, Jasminka (2000). Burn This House: The Making and Unmaking of Yugoslavia. Duke University Press. p. 252. ISBN   978-0-822-38091-7.
  7. Williams, Carol J. (23 March 1993). "Media : Magazine Makes Assault on Serbian Nationalism : Scrappy Vreme has emerged as Yugoslavia's most trusted chronicle of war. But it may be just as well that few read it". Los Angeles Times.