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{{Short description|Serbian daily newspaper}}
{{Distinguish|text = the Polish news magazine [[Polityka]]}}
{{Other uses}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}}
{{Infobox newspaper
| name               = {{Lang|sr-latn|Politika}}
| logo               = Logo of Politika.svg
| image              = Politika newspaper front cover.jpg
| type               = [[Daily newspaper]]
| format             = [[Berliner (format)|Berliner]]
| owners             = [[Politika a.d.]] (50%)<br />East Media Group (50%)
| founder            = [[Vladislav F. Ribnikar]]
| publisher          = Politika novine i magazini d.o.o.
| editor             = Marko Albunović
| founded            = {{OldStyleDate|25 January|1904|12 January|1904}}
| political_position =
| language           = Serbian
| headquarters       = Politika Square 1, [[Belgrade]]
| publishing_country = Serbia
| circulation        = ~45,000
| circulation_date   = 2016
| ISSN               = 0350-4395
| oclc               = 231040838
| website            = {{URL|https://www.politika.rs/}} 
}}

'''{{Lang|sr-latn|Politika}}''' ({{lang-sr-Cyrl|Политика|lit=Politics}}) is a Serbian daily newspaper, published in [[Belgrade]]. Founded in 1904<ref>{{cite book|last=Thomas|first=Robert|year=1999|title=Serbia Under Milošević: Politics in the 1990s|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IDzmXEDJFX8C&pg=PR16|location=London|publisher=C. Hurst & Co.|page=xvi|isbn=978-1-85065-367-7|access-date=2 August 2015}}</ref> by [[Vladislav F. Ribnikar]], it is the oldest daily newspaper still in circulation in the [[Balkans]].

==Publishing and ownership==
{{Lang|sr-latn|Politika}} is published by Politika novine i magazini (PNM), a joint venture between [[Politika a.d.]] and East Media Group.<ref>{{cite news|date=17 July 2012|title=Germany's WAZ in surprise sale of stake in Serbian daily|url=http://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics-article.php?yyyy=2012&mm=07&dd=17&nav_id=81319|publisher=[[B92]]|access-date=30 July 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120719193507/http://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics-article.php?yyyy=2012&mm=07&dd=17&nav_id=81319|archive-date=19 July 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=18 July 2012|title=Daily Politika has new owner|url=http://www.tanjug.rs/news/51206/daily-politika-has-new-owner.htm|publisher=[[Tanjug]]|access-date=30 July 2012}}{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> The current director of PNM is Mira Glišić Simić.<ref>{{cite news|date=12 March 2021|title=UNS: List Politika bez urednika|trans-title=UNS: Politika newspaper without an editor|url=https://www.danas.rs/vesti/drustvo/uns-list-politika-bez-urednika|language=sr|newspaper=[[Danas (newspaper)|Danas]]|agency=FoNet|access-date=16 February 2022}}</ref>

PNM also publishes:
*''[[Sportski žurnal]]''
*''[[Politikin Zabavnik]]''
*''[[Svet kompjutera]]''
*''Ilustrovana Politika''
*''Bazar''

==History==
[[File:Predsednik Tito u razgovoru sa direktorom i glavnim urednikom "Politike".jpg|thumb|left|{{Lang|sr-latn|Politika}} editor meeting [[President of Yugoslavia]] [[Josip Broz Tito]] in 1957]]

Since its launch in January 1904, {{Lang|sr-latn|Politika}} was published daily, except for several periods:

*Due to [[World War I]], there were no issues from 14 November 1914 to 21 December 1914, and again from 23 September 1915 to 1 December 1919.
*Due to [[World War II]], there were no issues from 6 April 1941 to 28 October 1944.
*In protest against the government's intentions to turn {{Lang|sr-latn|Politika}} into a [[state-owned enterprise]], a single issue was not published in the summer of 1992.

The launch issue had only four pages and a circulation of 2,450 copies, and its record high circulation was the 25 December 1973 issue (634,000 copies).

===Reporting during the Yugoslav Wars===
{{Further|Propaganda during the Yugoslav Wars}}

In the run-up to and during the [[breakup of Yugoslavia]] and the [[Yugoslav Wars]], {{Lang|sr-latn|Politika}} was under the control of [[Slobodan Milošević]] and the [[League of Communists of Serbia]] and was used for political purposes. It was used to publish controversial things such as the "[[Vojko i Savle]]" article, as well as an information guide to show what was allegedly happening to the Serbs in other republics, together with the [[Radio Television of Serbia]]. It blamed the local [[Kosovo Albanians]] for sodomizing [[Đorđe Martinović]], and published fabricated reader letters claiming that the Albanians were "raping hundreds of Serbian women". Before and during the [[Croatian War of Independence]], it published opinions on how "blood may shed again" in Croatia because of World War II, published claims on how the Vatican funded Croatia to break up Yugoslavia. At the end of the [[Battle of Vukovar]], it ran the fabricated story of the [[Vukovar children massacre]].<ref name="RdlB-2003-1">{{cite report |last=la Brosse |first=Renaud de |date=4 February 2003 |title=Political Propaganda and the Plan to Create a "State for all Serbs" – Consequences of Using the Media for Ultra-Nationalist Ends – Part 1 |url=http://hague.bard.edu/reports/de_la_brosse_pt1.pdf |publisher=Office of the Prosecutor of the [[International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia]] |access-date=16 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051212131608/http://hague.bard.edu/reports/de_la_brosse_pt1.pdf |archive-date=12 December 2005 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="RdlB-2003-2">{{cite report |last=la Brosse |first=Renaud de |date=4 February 2003 |title=Political Propaganda and the Plan to Create a "State for all Serbs" – Consequences of Using the Media for Ultra-Nationalist Ends – Part 2 |url=http://hague.bard.edu/reports/de_la_brosse_pt2.pdf |publisher=Office of the Prosecutor of the [[International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia]] |access-date=16 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051212131734/http://hague.bard.edu/reports/de_la_brosse_pt2.pdf |archive-date=12 December 2005 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="RdlB-2003-3">{{cite report |last=la Brosse |first=Renaud de |date=4 February 2003 |title=Political Propaganda and the Plan to Create a "State for all Serbs" – Consequences of Using the Media for Ultra-Nationalist Ends – Part 3 |url=http://hague.bard.edu/reports/de_la_brosse_pt3.pdf |publisher=Office of the Prosecutor of the [[International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia]] |access-date=16 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051212131822/http://hague.bard.edu/reports/de_la_brosse_pt3.pdf |archive-date=12 December 2005 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="RdlB-2003-4">{{cite report |last=la Brosse |first=Renaud de |date=4 February 2003 |title=Political Propaganda and the Plan to Create a "State for all Serbs" – Consequences of Using the Media for Ultra-Nationalist Ends – Part 4 |url=http://hague.bard.edu/reports/de_la_brosse_pt4.pdf |publisher=Office of the Prosecutor of the [[International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia]] |access-date=16 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051212131906/http://hague.bard.edu/reports/de_la_brosse_pt4.pdf |archive-date=12 December 2005 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The article was however retracted with a statement published the following day.<ref name="RdlB-2003-1"/>

=== After the Yugoslav Wars ===
According to the investigative journalist organisation KRIK, ''Politika'' published over 96 biased and unfounded articles in its newspaper in 2024.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Vučić |first=Marija |last2=Ljubičić |first2=Milica |last3=Kosanović |first3=Stefan |last4=Radojević |first4=Vesna |date=24 April 2025 |title=Šest novina, više od 1.400 manipulacija: Kako su izgledale naslovnice 2024. godine |trans-title=Six newspapers, more than 1,400 manipulations: What the covers looked like in 2024 |url=https://raskrikavanje.rs/page.php?id=Sest-novina-vise-od-1-400-manipulacija-Kako-su-izgledale-naslovnice-2024--godine-1461 |access-date=2 May 2025 |work=KRIK |language=sr}}</ref>

==Notable persons==
[[File:Andrić Politika.JPG|thumb|Plaque dedicated to [[Ivo Andrić]] on the wall of ''Politika''{{'}}s headquarters in Belgrade]]

===Editors===
{{Refbegin|2}}
*[[Vladislav F. Ribnikar]] (1904–1915)
*Miomir Milenović and Jovan Tanović (1915–1941)
*Živorad Minović (1985–1991)
*Aleksandar Prlja (1991–1994)
*Boško Jakšić (1994)
*Dragan Hadži Antić (1994–2000)
*Vojin Partonić (2000–2001)
*Milan Mišić (2001–2005)
*[[Ljiljana Smajlović]] (2005–2008)
*Radmilo Kljajić (2008)
*Dragan Bujošević (2008–2013)
*[[Ljiljana Smajlović]] (2013–2016)
*Žarko Rakić (2016–2021)
*Marko Albunović (since 2021)
{{Refend}}

=== Associates ===
{{Refbegin|2}}
* [[Verica Rupar]], journalist
* [[Hamza Humo]], writer
* [[Ivo Andrić]], writer
* Zija Dizdarević, journalist
{{Refend}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{commons category}} 
* {{Official website}} {{in lang|sr}}
* [https://adt.arcanum.com/en/collection/PolitikaBeograd_OSA/ Archives] of ''Politika'' (1941–1994) via [[Arcanum Newspapers]].

{{Newspapers in Serbia}}
{{Eastern Bloc media}}
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[[Category:Mass media in Belgrade]]
[[Category:Newspapers published in Serbia]]
[[Category:Newspapers published in Yugoslavia]]
[[Category:Newspapers established in 1904]]
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