Pobjeda


Pobjeda is the Montenegrin national daily newspaper. Having been published for 80 years, it is the oldest Montenegrin newspaper still in circulation, as well as the oldest Montenegrin active publication. Until September 1997, it was the only daily newspaper printed in Montenegro. On 21 May 2010, the newspaper dropped the Cyrillic script in favour of the Latin script.

History

The first issue of Pobjeda was published on 24 October 1944 in Nikšić as a part of the National liberation front of Montenegro. Three more issues came out before Pobjeda began to be published in Cetinje, which would remain Pobjedas home until 1954, when it moved to Podgorica.
The first editorial team were: Puniša Perović, Branko Drašković, Jovan Vukmanović, Mirko Banjević, Erih Koš, Aleksandar Obradović and Radovan Đuranović. The first editorial was written by Blažo Jovanović. He also gave the name to the newspaper. One of the first couriers was Vito Nikolić, who later became journalist of the same newspaper.
Pobjeda was a bi-weekly and weekly newspaper until 1 January 1975 when it switched to daily frequency. The change happened when the headquarters of Pobjeda moved from old location to the new building, in the new city quarter.
For many decades in the SFR Yugoslavia, Pobjeda was sold on news stands in Belgrade, Sarajevo, Split, Zagreb and other large cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia and Slovenia. Many news stands in Montenegro were owned by Pobjeda.
After the breakup of Yugoslavia, copies of Pobjeda were sold in Montenegro and Serbia.
Pobjeda also published several magazines; today Arena is the first sports newspaper in Montenegro. Pobjedas books and publications have received awards at many prestigious events.
Pobjeda's mainly Montenegrin readership was diluted following the establishment of two other newspapers - Vijesti and Dan.
Until 1997 Pobjeda was the only print medium published in Montenegro, but from 1997 competition from daily newspapers, together with the complex and sometimes chaotic media situation in Montenegro, made Pobjeda financially vulnerable, and caused the company to go into bankruptcy. In November 2007, the Montenegrin government announced its intention to sell 51% of its stake in Pobjeda and opened a tender for qualifying offers to do so. By the tender's closing on March 4, 2008, no offers had been made. In early May 2008, the government announced that it would open another tender by the end of May 2008. The government also let it be known that in order to make the entity more appealing to potential buyers, it was considering writing off Pobjeda's €2.2 million debt to the State through personal income taxes and contributions.
In late June 2008, Pobjeda posted a loss of €3.75 million for the calendar year 2007.
Besides the daily newspaper, Pobjeda also publishes a number of periodical magazines such as Objektiv, a weekly journal devoted to cinema and popular culture; and, since 2005, Arena, a Podgorica-based weekly sports journal.
Pobjeda was privatised in December 2014, and is now owed by Media Nea group. For the first time, the company was in 2015 listed on the State Tax Authority's “White list of taxpayers”, reporting a profit for the first time in its history.

Notable persons

Editors-in-chief

  1. Puniša Perović
  2. Branko Drašković
  3. Jovan Vukmanović
  4. Niko Simov Martinović
  5. Pavle Aleksić
  6. Božidar Đurović
  7. Budislav Šoškić
  8. Veljko Milatović
  9. Ante Slovinić
  10. Veselin Velizarov Đuranović
  11. Vladimir Popović
  12. Miodrag Đukić
  13. Mirko Vraneš
  14. Milo Kralj
  15. Svetozar Durutović
  16. Marko Špadijer
  17. Petar Bošković
  18. Miodrag Bošković
  19. Zoran Popović
  20. Savić Jovanović
  21. Momir Škuljić
  22. Šćepan Vuković
  23. Vidoje Konatar
  24. Nikola Ivanović
  25. Slobodan Vuković
  26. Milorad Rašović
  27. Slobodan Vuković
  28. Saša Knežević
  29. Andrija Racković
  30. Srđan Kusovac
  31. Vesna Šofranac
  32. Draško Đuranović
  33. Nenad Zečević

Journalists

Associates

List of awards won by ''Pobjeda''