Vecernji list (
English Evening paper) is a Croatian daily
newspaper published in
Zagreb.
The newspaper was started in the 1950s. Its ancestor "Vecernji 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 known as Vecernji list.
Vecernji list remained true to this reputation after the 1990 election. Even so, Franjo Tudman and his ruling Croatian Democratic Union expressed great interest in taking even more direct control over the newspaper through privatisation. Ivic Pašalic, 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. During the Bosnian war Vecernji list earned bad reputation as one of the main Croatian media spreading propaganda. After the war it took part as a key Croatian nationalistic paper supporting Croat nationalists in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
More damaging for Vecernji list was the start of Jutarnji list, a rival daily newspaper, in April 1998. Vecernji list lost the top position in the Croatian media market.
