Glas javnosti is a daily newspaper published in Belgrade

Belgrade

Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...

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Its first issue appeared on April 20, 1998, published by a group of journalists from Blic

Blic (newspaper)

Blic is a tabloid daily newspaper in Serbia owned by Ringier AG group from Switzerland.Started in 1996, it has gone through a slight format change during the mid 2000s to include more in-depth coverage, but it is still, as its name aptly suggest, a paper devoted to quick, concise,...

daily who, led by Manojlo Vukotić, left to form their own newspaper.

Initially, their new paper carried the Novi Blic name, but the Belgrade Commercial Court put a stop to that by issuing an immediate injunction citing copyright infringement. After 5 issues, on April 25, 1998, the paper appeared under its current name, which the staff took from a long-forgotten 19th century publication.

Modern Glas javnosti assumes a continuity from a newspaper of the same name published in Kragujevac

Kragujevac

Kragujevac is the fourth largest city in Serbia, the main city of the Šumadija region and the administrative centre of Šumadija District. It is situated on the banks of the Lepenica River...

 during 19th century. The first issue of that Glas javnosti came out on July 15, 1874.

Glas is financially managed by Radisav Rodić who also owns Kurir

Kurir

Kurir is a high-circulation daily tabloid published in Belgrade. Its first issue appeared at the news stands on May 6, 2003.Kurirs tone is abrasive, direct and irreverent. It runs sensationalist stories, the other publications won't touch...

. Initially, the paper's editor-in-chief duties were performed by Manojlo Vukotić, who was succeeded by Srećko Petrić, Milan Bečejić, Slavoljub Kačarević, Maja Vojinović, Petar Lazić, Ivan Čorbić, Slavica Jovović, and Ljiljana Staletović.

The authorities under the Milošević

Slobodan Milošević

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regime frequently went after Glas. On the 2nd and 3rd of October 1999, the paper ceased publication due to an official injunction, allegedly because of three unregistered workers found at the ABC grafika printing company. In reality, the ban was widely seen as regime retribution for the paper's decision to print and distribute a bulletin by the Alliance for Change opposition coalition.