On November 15, 2022, the newspaper “Dnevnik” celebrates its 80th anniversary. In the midst of great suffering in the Second World War, exactly on that day eighty years ago, in the base under the streets of Novi Sad, the first issue of “Slobodna Vojvodina”, the forerunner of our newspaper saw the light of day.
The first issue of “Slobodna Vojvodina” was published at a time when Vojvodina was occupied, oppressed and divided, and the whole of Europe enslaved. Svetozar Marković Toza, the first editor, paid with his life for fighting the occupier with the written word. The fascists executed him, and after the liberation he was declared a national hero.
The only and at the same time the oldest daily newspaper in the Serbian language in Vojvodina, got its current name on January 1, 1953. The readers then chose the name “Dnevnik” but also decided that, as it is today, the paper should be printed in Cyrillic and with blue letterhead. For 80 years, the newspaper “Dnevnik” has preserved the Serbian language and the Cyrillic alphabet in northern Serbia, in Vojvodina.
“Dnevnik” has always been a treasure trove of excellent journalists, including academics, writers, and scientific workers. Many who mastered the journalistic craft in “Dnevnik” incorporated their knowledge in other media, printed and electronic. Ever since it was created as a spark in an enslaved country, and even today, the newspaper “Dnevnik” fosters tolerance and justice in multi-ethnic Vojvodina, informing daily about all current events, with the stamp of the climate in which we live, modernizing, but also preserving the journalistic profession through all the difficult times the country was going through. Today, “new battles” are being waged with numerous daily newspapers and media, in which “Dnevnik” bravely participates, fighting for its piece of media space, while preserving the tradition, conceived way back in 1942.
