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Political Changes and Press in the Years of 1989 and 1990

This paper explores the relationship between political changes and journalism in the years of 1989 and 1990, which will be illustrated with an analysis of local newspapers published in the town of Zadar in the Republic of Croatia. The paper is based on the analysis of newspaper articles on political changes published in local Croatian newspapers “Narodni list” and “Fokus”. The period analyzed covers the time when monthly publication of Fokus was published, i.e. from February 8, 1989 to September 22, 1990. The period, among other things, was characterized with the breakdown of Communist regime and SFR Yugoslavia, the beginning of transition and liberalism period and the development of democratic system in Croatia. The research was based on newspaper articles put in the category of Political changes. We analyzed 104 newspaper issues and 1175 newspaper articles, including 870 articles published in the category of Political changes. Descriptive and explanatory method was employed in the paper, as well as the method of quantitative and qualitative content analysis. The research results have shown the majority of articles published in “Narodni list” and “Fokus” were put in the category of Political changes and precisely this category was most commonly present on the cover of the newspapers analyzed. Political changes in the countries of Central and South-East Europe also reflected on political events in Croatia. Therefore, Croatian readers as well as editors were more interested in all political events, including the occurrence of a multi-party system and the process of democratization.

political changes ; press ; the years of 1989 and 1990 ; democratization ; content analysis

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