The Serb National Council issues various publications thus promotes the activities of the Serb community in Croatia and informing about the problems encountered by its members. The SNV’s publications are aimed at the Serb community, but also at a wider audience and institutions whose task is to act toward the protection of human, civil and national rights. Since December 1999, the SNV has been publishing the weekly Novosti, which is distributed through a network of Serb organizations and also sold at newsagents’ kiosks. Novosti also boasts an online edition, Portal Novosti, which, along with articles from the printed version, also features news articles, analyses, and commentaries written exclusively for the web portal. Apart from Novosti, the SNV also issues Bulletin, a periodical publication which brings an overview of the main problems that Serbs in Croatia face – from refugee and returnee issues to the issues of identity and education – as well as the scientific journal Tragovi.
Tragovi [Traces]
Tragovi is a scientific journal featuring Serb and Croatian topics, issued twice a year: in May and November. It is multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary and features works from various social sciences and the humanities such as historiography, political science, linguistics, art history, economy, ethnology, anthropology, international relations etc. The journal’s focus is on topics from the past and present of Croatia and Yugoslavia (and ex-Yugoslav territories), past and present of Serbs in Croatia and the Serb – Croatian relations. The journal’s editor-in-chief is professor Dejan Jović. The journal is published by the Serb National Council and the Archive of Serbs in Croatia.
Tragovi contact
Bulletin
The Bulletin of the Serb National Council is a periodical publication that provides an overview of the main problems that Serbs in Croatia face. Apart from informing the Serb community and the wider audience, the publication aims to encourage relevant institutions to assume a more active role in the fast and comprehensive resolution of problems this community frequently faces. The Bulletin is thematic so that each issue covers another specific current problem related to minority rights. At the same time, it provides an overview of the advocacy, representational and fieldwork of the Serb National Council.
Novosti Weekly
The weekly Novosti has been published since December 1999. The independent Serb weekly Novosti is a periodical covering general news through critical writing about relevant political, social, socio-economic, and cultural events in Croatia, the wider region and the world. Novosti pays special attention to the work of institutions of the Serb community and events and topics relevant to this community – the return of refugees, reintegration of the Serb minority, struggle for minority rights and development of the war-affected regions. One part of the weekly is dedicated to the process of cultural and economic exchange among post-Yugoslav countries and general topics of democratisation, civil society development and rule of law.
The weekly Novosti is available for purchase at most newsstands in Croatia. It is also distributed via a network of local Serb national minority councils, NGOs, sub-committees of the Serb Cultural Society Prosvjeta, and the Serb Orthodox Church, while readers have the option of subscribing.
As part of Novosti, the eponymous supplement “Privrednik”, of the Serbian Business Association Privrednik, and the magazine “Nada” of the Serbian Democratic Forum, are published every other week.
Novosti boast a roster of some of the best journalists and columnists in Croatia and the region, which is one of the qualities that make it interesting to audiences beyond the Serb community. In 2018, Novosti was shortlisted among the four finalists for the prominent international award for freedom of expression, Freedom of Expression Awards, in the category of journalism.
In December 2023, the Novosti weekly and the web Portal Novosti won the “Srđan Aleksić” regional journalism award in the category “For the Media”. The jury, inter alia, stated that the quality of content of Novosti is constant, consistent and professional, affecting not only Croatian society, but the region as a whole, while its authors and contributors are people with integrity and guardians of common sense in the region.
Novosti newsroom contact
Portal Novosti
Portal Novosti is based on the editorial idea of Novosti, adjusted to the internet platform. The portal’s contents are based on articles from the weekly’s print version which are published successively as the week progresses, and on daily production of relevant news articles, commentaries and analyses written for the portal.
Novosti desk contact
Vida TV
The Serb National Council’s audiovisual production, Vida, began broadcasting in May 2022, chiefly through its YouTube channel, Facebook page and the portal vida.hr. It works under the motto, “Vida gives a minority perspective on most things.” Vida is aimed at informing members of the Serbian minority and the general public about political, social and cultural events and issues of importance in the daily life of the Serbian minority in Croatia. Vida broadcasts a political, social and cultural program comprising news items, reportages and talk shows, investigative journalism and documentaries. Its program and individual shows are structured to integrate minority and general content with the aim of making the minority community more visible to the general public and bringing key topics closer to minorities.
Its editorial office is located in the complex of the Serbian Cultural Society ‘Prosvjeta’ in Preradovićeva Street, Zagreb, which houses a fully furnished and equipped TV studio, along with production and editing rooms and a voiceover booth, in line with the highest standards of TV production and suitable for cable network distribution and exchange with interested TV stations.
Editor-in-Chief: Nikola Bajto
Deputy chief editors: Aleksandar Tešić and Martina Uzelac
Executive editors: Zoran Kekić (current affairs) and Antonela Marušić (culture)
Production manager: Mihailo Radosavljević
