Jutarnji list

Jutarnji list (lit. 'The Morning Paper') is a Croatian daily newspaper based in Zagreb. It was published on 6 April 1998 by EPH (Europapress holding, owned by Ninoslav Pavić), which eventually changed its name in Hanza Media after being bought by Marijan Hanžeković.^[3] The newspaper is published in the berliner format and online. Its online edition, Jutarnji.hr, is the second most-visited news website in Croatia after Index.hr.^[4]

Jutarnji list

Front page of the 17 October 2009 issue
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Berliner
Owner(s)	Ana Hanžeković Krznarić (CEO) Dora Hanžeković Žuža
Publisher	Hanza Media d.o.o.
Editor-in-chief	Goran Ogurlić[1]
Founded	6 April 1998 (1998-04-06)
Political alignment	Liberalism[2] Social democracy[2]
Language	Croatian
City	Zagreb
Country	Croatia
Circulation	66,000 (October 2014)
ISSN	1331-5692
Website	www.jutarnji.hr
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According to Hanžeković, "Jutarnji list should be conceptually a newspaper of liberal and social-democratic orientation, with emphasis on accuracy and relevance."^[2]

History and profile

Jutarnji list was launched in April 1998,^[5] becoming the first successful Croatian daily newspaper to appear since the 1950s.^[6] It was named after the Jutarnji list [hr] Zagreb daily that used to circulate from 1912 until 1941. The newspaper is part of Hanza Media media group.

In 2003, Jutarnji list launched a comprehensive Sunday edition, Nedjeljni Jutarnji. On 19 February 2005, Jutarnji list published an exhaustive biography of Ante Gotovina.^[a]

The paper quickly took the majority of the Croatian media market and became one of the most-read newspapers in that country. In the first five years, it sold more than 214 million copies.^[6] During the actual economic crisis, the number of sold copies diminished from about 80,000 in 2007 to 52,763 in 2013.^[6][8] The crisis hit in the same manner as other daily newspapers in Croatia.^[9] The circulation of Jutarnji list was 66,000 copies in October 2014.^[10]

Controversies

In February 2008, Jutarnji list was involved in a scandal when it published an interview^[11][12] with what was thought to be Prime Minister of Croatia Ivo Sanader. The reporter contacted then-23-year-old Viktor Zahtila by e-mail and SMS, whom he assumed to be the prime minister.^[13] Zahtila replied via e-mail^[14] and did not state that he was Ivo Sanader.