NIN

The weekly informative newspaper, better known as NIN, was founded by a group of journalists in 1935 and the first issue was published in Belgrade on January 26 of that year. In the period from January 26 to September 7, 1935, 26 issues were published, after which the newspaper was banned. The paper reappeared in the newsstands again on 7 January 1951, 16 years later. At that time, NIN was a newspaper dominated by commentaries and reports.

In 1958 NIN became a part of the Politika newspaper and publishing house. At the initiative of Fran Barbijeri, then editor-in-chief and Sergej Lukač, founder of the Department of Journalism at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade, 1971. NIN switched to news magazine format and was printed in colour. Barbieri was dismissed due to the conflict between the League of Communists and Liberals, and Dragan Markovic took his place. In the period between 1973 and 1975, a new generation of journalists came to the editorial office of NIN: Bogdan Tirnanić, Mirko Klarin, Stevan Nikšić, Milan Milošević, Teodor Anđelić, Aleksandar Tijanić, Slobodanka Ast, Zoran Jeličić and Dušan Veličković. During this period, NIN also had the largest circulation in its history with 180,000 copies sold in 1981.

After the Eighth Session of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, the editorial college of that time was dismissed from NIN in 1987-88, and two years later a group of journalists came out of it, establishing the editorial office of the weekly Vreme with Belgrade dissidents. In 1992, a strike broke out in NIN, after which it separated from Politika publishing house in 1995 and started working independently.

In March 2009, NIN was privatised and sold to Ringier for 810 thousand euros. In the period between 2010 and 2022, the ultimate owner of Blic was the international group Ringier Axel Springer Media AG, which was founded by the merger of Ringier AG from Switzerland and Axel Springer SE from Germany.

Since 2022, after the withdrawal of the Germans, NIN has been owned by the Swiss media group Riniger, which operates in Central and Eastern Europe and Africa.

As of August 2023, NIN was majority owned by Jelena Drakulić Petrović, director of Ringier Serbia, which publishes the daily Blic. NIN has always been an independent newspaper with a critical view of the activities of the authorities, and Drakulić Petrović has close ties to the Serbian Progressive Party. The editor-in-chief at the time, Milan Ćulibrk, said that NIN would maintain an independent and critical editorial policy as long as he was in that position.

In January 2024, Vesna Mališić, deputy editor-in-chief, resigned from that position and announced her retirement. She had previously turned down management's offer to lead the investigative team of the weekly NIN. A week after that, Milan Ćulibrk also resigned from the position of editor-in-chief, and the collegium and the editorial team collectively quit on the same day and announced that they were moving to a new weekly paper launched by United Media.

These reactions followed after the new owner of the weekly NIN, Jelena Drakulić Petrović, announced that there would be some changes in the concept of the weekly.