Content Analysis of the News in Pera Todorović’s Male Novine Cover Image

Analiza sadržaja vesti u Malim novinama Pere Todorovića
Content Analysis of the News in Pera Todorović’s Male Novine

Author(s): Dejan Aleksić, Lidija Vidić
Subject(s): Media studies, Social history, Sociology of Politics
Published by: Fakultet političkih nauka Univerziteta u Beogradu
Keywords: daily press; journalism; content analysis; Male novine; Pera Todorović;

Summary/Abstract: As in many other countries, foundation of daily press is tightly connected to politics and political situation in Serbia. Even tough first magazines and newspapers began to emerge a few decades earlier, their release was periodical or irregular, where a newspaper itself was a political organ or had narrow spectrum of themes. It is only with the appearance of “Male novine“ [Small Newspapers] that one can talk about the beginning of modern daily press. The content is divided in columns and following Pera Todorović’s idea, the newspaper were intended for a large audience. As this newspaper, considered the first of it’s kind, had several different columns as newspaper today also have, this paper has its focus on column “domaće vesti“ [Internal Affairs News]. Analyzing this column from several aspects, the beginning and the development of modern journalism is followed, as well as the influence that Pera Todorović himself had of that matter. Also, this paper focuses it’s attention to the implicit impacts that had an important role in the forming of the first daily newspaper in our country.

  • Issue Year: 9/2014
  • Issue No: 32
  • Page Range: 83-106
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Serbian