Večernje novosti

It first appeared on stands on 16 October 1953, edited by Slobodan Glumac, who set the newspaper's tone for years to come. Housing an extensive network of journalists and contributors, the paper reported and commented on various issues and events according to its mantra: fast, brief and clear.

In the mid-1980s, Novosti got a big scoop by publishing the old files of the State Commission for War Crimes, which shed new light on Austrian president Kurt Waldheim's involvement in war crimes during World War II.{{cite news |last1=Ludington |first1=Nick |title=Waldheim U.N. File Based on Yugoslav Charges of Murder |url=https://apnews.com/article/864a731f4b1ba9d8388e43a77e5a364e |work=The Associated Press |date=11 April 1986}} The file F-25572 dated 17 November 1947, which Novosti published for the first time gave new details of Waldheim's whereabouts in Yugoslavia during the war.{{cite report |title=Kurt Waldheim's Hidden Past: An Interim Report to the President, World Jewish Congress |publisher=World Jewish Congress |page=47 |date=1986 |quote=..the Belgrade newspaper Vecernje Novosti (Evening News) was allowed to examine them and reported on them extensively in articles dated March 26 and 31, 1986 . Highlights of these accounts include.. file F - 25572 of the Yugoslav archive..}}

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| footer = During the Bosnian War, Večernje novosti published a war report supposedly from Bosnia illustrated with Uroš Predić's 1888 painting (below) presented as an actual photograph (above) of a "Serbian boy whose whole family was killed by Bosnian Muslims". The original title of Predić's painting is "Siroče na majčinom grobu" (Orphan at mother's grave).{{cite web|url=http://www.e-novine.com/entertainment/entertainment-tema/31106-Pravda-Uroa-Predia.html|title=e-novine.com - Pravda za Uroša Predića!|access-date=5 May 2015|archive-date=28 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028203841/http://www.e-novine.com/entertainment/entertainment-tema/31106-Pravda-Uroa-Predia.html|url-status=dead}}}}

{{see|Propaganda during the Yugoslav Wars}}

In September 1986, parts of the SANU Memorandum were published by Večernje novosti.{{cite book |last1=Dragovic-Soso |first1=Jasna |title=Saviours of the Nation: Serbia's Intellectual Opposition and the Revival of Nationalism |date=2002 |publisher=McGill-Queen's Press |isbn=978-0-77357-092-4 |page=177 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=imMBBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA177}}

Although it is one of the region's longest enduring newspapers, it is also remembered for its association with the regime of Slobodan Milošević. During the years leading up to the dictator's overthrow, Novosti was one of his main mouthpieces.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}} Loyalty to his regime was the most important job requirement at the paper in this period. Through party-installed apparatchiks like Dušan Cukić (then editor-in-chief), Milošević was able to control the paper and use it to espouse propaganda.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

On the cover of its 21 September 2000 edition, Večernje novosti tried to use a doctored photo of Milošević's pre-election town meeting in Berane, Montenegro, to increase the number of people present with photo-montage.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}} Two pictures of the event from the same angle were taken and then side by side pasted and as such published. But nevertheless, video from the same event showed people were actually present on other side (it was not empty) and if it were an actual panoramic picture published (technique not implemented by photographer in time) showing from left to right, it would not change the perception of the number of people present as it would show a full stadium.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

On 4 February 2006, retired basketball ace Vlade Divac expressed his desire to invest in Novosti, perhaps even buy the majority stake, but decided to lie low until the paper's complex ownership structure disputes were resolved.{{cite web|url=http://www.novosti.rs/code/navigate.php?Id=4&status=jedna&vest=85038&datum=2006-02-05|title=Divac: Neću u novu aferu|date=|website=Večernje novosti}}{{cite web |title=Divac bi Večernje novosti |url=https://www.b92.net/info/vesti/index.php?yyyy=2006&mm=02&dd=04&nav_id=187538 |website=B92 |date=4 February 2006}} There was also an initial interest from two media conglomerates, WAZ-Mediengruppe and Northcliffe Media, a division of Daily Mail and General Trust in buying a stake in Večernje novosti.{{cite web|url=http://www.novosti.rs/code/navigate.php?Id=4&status=jedna&vest=85522&datum=2006-02-17|title=London i Esen hoće "Novosti"|date=|website=Večernje novosti}}

• Slobodan Glumac (1953–1957){{cite web|url=http://www.novosti.rs/vecernje_novosti/o_nama/tekstovi_za_istorijat.217.html|title=Svi glavni urednici – Novosti.rs|date=|website=Večernje novosti}}
• Vasilije Kraljević (1957–1959)
• Bogdan Pešić (1959–1963)
• Slobodan Glumac (1963–1969)
• Mirko Stamenković (1969–1972)
• Jovan Jauković (1972–1974)
• Živko Milić (1974–1976)
• Tomislav Milinović (1976–1984)
• Ilija Borovnjak (1984–1987)
• Radoslav Brajović (1987–1998)
• Pero Simić (1998–2000)
• Dušan Čukić (2000)
• Manojlo Vukotić (2000–2013)
• Ratko Dmitrović (2013–2017)
• Milorad Vučelić (2017–present)

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