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DANAS Daily newspaper Established in June 1997, Danas (Today) is one of the youngest daily newspapers in Serbia. However, the experience of its founders is impressive, especially when it comes to fighting pressure and oppression in the country during the Milosevic years. The founders of Danas have been real pioneers of independent journalism--not only in the former Yugoslavia, but in the whole of Central and Eastern Europe. They are the editors and journalists who led the independent newspaper Borba in the late 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s (before it was taken over by the regime in December 1994) and who created the daily Nasa Borba in 1995.
These journalists were persecuted, threatened, banned, expelled from newsrooms, fined, sentenced, imprisoned (Miroslav Filipovic, a Danas correspondent in Kraljevo, spent about five months in military jail), and some were even killed (Slavko Curuvija worked for several years for Borba before founding Dnevni telegraf). And yet they did not stop.
Danas was founded by journalists who wanted to offer an alternative on the local market: a political, independent, and reliable newspaper that did not belong to any political party, group, or ideology, but that followed professional standards. Danas preserved its independent position in the period after the changes in October 2000 and was one of the rare media voices to criticize the new Serbian and Yugoslav authorities.
Danas is a liberal, pro-European newspaper that stands for the highest levels of tolerance and is strongly dedicated to the principles and values of democracy and civility. It strives for pluralism and dialogue and for the protection of human rights and the rights of all minorities--national, religious, cultural, and other. Danas strives to objectively cover the events in the whole region of the former Yugoslavia with the aim of opening up communication between citizens.
Danas has a daily circulation of 30,000 and is distributed throughout Serbia, Vojvodina, Montenegro, and parts of Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The group of professional journalists (now 15 people in total) fully owns Danas, which is published by the Dan Graf company.
On 12 May 2002, during the International Press Institute (IPI) World Congress in Ljubljana, the IPI, in cooperation with the Freedom Forum, presented its 2002 Free Media Pioneer Award to Danas. This award was established to honor individuals or organizations that have fought against great odds to ensure freer and more independent media in their country. It was presented to Danas for managing to provide an accurate, impartial view of events in the region while standing up to constant pressure from the Serbian authorities.
"Being determined not to make peace with the past, nor to push new dirt under the carpet, we are aware our task now is just as tough and challenging as in the pre-October days," Radomir Licina, Danas chairman of the board, said on the occasion.
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