Novi Sad Newspaper Zastava Coverage about the Assassination of Franz Ferdinand Cover Image

Писање новосадског листа Застава о атентату на Франца Фердинанда
Novi Sad Newspaper Zastava Coverage about the Assassination of Franz Ferdinand

Author(s): Vladimir Barović
Subject(s): Cultural history, Media studies, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919)
Published by: Матица српска
Keywords: Zastava; assassination; Franz Ferdinand; reporting

Summary/Abstract: Novi Sad newspaper titled Zastava, founded in 1866 by a great politician Svetozar Miletić, had a great influence on Serbian public in Vojvodina. At the time of Franz Ferdinand’s assassination, June 28, 1914 in Sarajevo, the newspaper was in a very complex political and social situation. At that time, Zastava was the organ of the Serbian National Radical Party, edited by a famous politician and journalist Jaša Tomić. The coverage in Zastava about media discours research of this specific historical event had a big impact on the history of our media. Austro-Hungarian government pressure, psychosis, pursuits and other elements significaly affected journalists’ reports at the time. Main goal of this research is to determine in which manner the journalists of the most valuable media of the Serbs from Vojvodina reported about the assassination that led to the outbreak of the World War I.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 154
  • Page Range: 129-138
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Serbian