Večernji list

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Večernji list
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Berliner

Owner	Styria Medien AG
Publisher	Večernji list d.d.
Editor	Goran Ogurlić
Founded	1959
Language	Croatian
Price	6.00 kn
Headquarters	Slavonska avenija 4, Zagreb, Croatia
ISSN	0350-5006

Website: http://www.vecernji.hr

Večernji list (English: Evening paper) is a Croatian daily newspaper published in Zagreb.

The newspaper (whose title means "Evening Newspaper") was started in the 1950s. Its ancestor "Večernji Vjesnik" ("Evening Courier") appeared for the first time on June 3, 1957 in Zagreb on 24 pages^[1] but quickly merged with "Narodni list" ("People's Paper") to form what is today Večernji list.

Večernji list remained true to this reputation after the 1990 election. Even so, Franjo Tuđman and his ruling Croatian Democratic Union expressed great interest in taking even more direct control over the newspaper through privatisation. Ivić Pašalić, one of Tudjman's most trusted advisors took part in that process. However, although the process wasn't particularly transparent, no actual criminal wrongdoings were discovered in subsequent inquires, despite a concerted campaign of Nacional weekly to prove otherwise.

More damaging for Večernji list was the start of Jutarnji list, a rival daily newspaper, in April 1998. Večernji list lost the top position in the Croatian media market.

In early 2000s, the newspaper, officially owned by a Virgin Islands financial group, was sold to Styria AG, an Austria-based media group. Under new management, the newspaper began to win back its readership, especially when it took a more critical approach towards the government. This approach intensified when Ivo Sanader became the country's prime minister. That, combined with the appointment of Miljenko Manjkas, an old Tuđman cadre, for editor-in-chief, and especially some non-objective anticommunist texts, led many to speculate that Ivić Pašalić, Sanader's archrival, might indeed be behind the newspaper. According to an article in Jutarnji list, Sanader recently threatened Styria AG's management with an investigation of privatisation and subsequent sales unless the newspaper's editorial policy was changed.