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| Editor-in-chief | Aleksandar Timofejev |
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| Categories | Newsmagazine |
| Frequency | Weekly |
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| First issue | 26 January 1935 7 January 1951 (re-established) |
| Country | Serbia |
| Language | Serbian |
| Website | www |
NIN (Serbian Cyrillic:НИН) is a weeklynews magazine published inBelgrade,Serbia. Its name is anacronym forNedeljne informativne novine (Недељне информативне новине) which roughly translates intoWeekly Informational Newspaper.
Though a current events magazine in its essence,NIN also earned an esteemed reputation due to a long tradition of opening its pages to the best and the brightest withinSerbian, and previouslyYugoslav society, whether in arts, sciences, or even sports. This reputation has recently somewhat been tarnished[citation needed] as the magazine was forced into commercial competition with numerous political periodicals that sprung up inSerbia after the dissolution of Yugoslavia.
As of 2007[update], the magazine had 35 employees.
In July 2008, the magazine celebrated the release of its, 3000th issue.[1] On March 13, 2009, it was announced that a majority stake in the magazine was bought by Swiss media companyRingier AG.[2] NIN was sold to Jelena Drakulić Petrović in August 2023.[3]
NIN used to be highly critical of Serbian presidentAleksandar Vučić's populist regime and considered one of few independent media outlets. This all changed when Drakulić Petrović took over the ownership. As a result of the pressure by the owner towards the editors and journalists to become pro-regime oriented, complete editors office with most of the journalists left NIN and founded a new weeklyRadar.[4][5]
NIN was originally started in 1935.[6] During the late 1980sSlobodan Milošević and his followers converted major publications, includingNIN, into media outlets ofSerbian nationalism.[7]
In 2007NIN was preparing forprivatization.[8] At that time the magazine's ownership structure was: 87% publicly owned (društveni kapital), 10% owned byPolitika AD, and 3% owned by the employees. A 60.9% stake (70% of the public stake) in the magazine was to be auctioned off on September 29, 2007 with starting price set atRSD13.2 million (~€170,000).[9] However, the auction as the method of privatization for the magazine was scrapped by the Serbian Privatization Agency due to employee demands and a newtender was set for sometime during spring 2008.[10]
The tender was actually opened on October 30, 2008, and it closed on December 19, 2008. On December 25, 2008, it was reported that companiesRingier AG andNovosti AD submitted competing offers for 61.48% stake inNIN (70% of the magazine's public stake, which is in turn 87% of the total stake).[citation needed]
In mid-March 2009, it was announced that Ringier AG bought the majority stake inNIN for RSD57.455 million (~ €810,000). Soon afterward the magazine's headquarters moved from Cetinjska Street to Kraljice Marije Street at the same location whereBlic daily (Ringier's other major asset in Serbia) has its headquarters. Sometime in April 2009, longtime editor-in-chief Slobodan Reljić was let go and replaced with Srđan Radulović, up to that point an editor atBlic daily. The change was done quietly without any press releases.
In September 2009, an open letter written by the magazine's longtime journalists to Ringier AG chairmanMichael Ringier surfaced, in which they are criticizing some of the moves and changes since Ringier took over.[11][12]
In January 2024, following a change in ownership, the entire editorial staff of the magazine have left the magazine.[13] The editorial staff created a new magazine,Radar (news magazine).
In January every year,NIN's special jury vote on what they feel was the best novel released during the previous year and award it withNinova nagrada (Нинова награда,the NIN Prize), which has over the years become one of the highest honors for contemporary Serbian authors. The award is also very relevant commercially, as its recipients usually go on to become bestsellers.
The list of individuals who performed editor-in-chief duties atNIN.
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