Original scientific paper
Financing models of the Koprivnica weekly magazine Demokrat (Democrat) (1919 -1920)
Marko Gregur
; Posgraduate (Doctoral) Study Program of Communication and Media - University North, Koprivnica, Croatia
Abstract
The launch and publication of the Koprivnica weekly magazine Demokrat in 1919 is of great importance for the city and marks a turning point in comprehension of the functioning of newspapers. Namely, although the founding of Novosti as early as 1907 is marked as appearance of newspapers of an informative nature that did not serve the purpose of being a journal of certain political options, in Koprivnica this happened only in 1919 when the local organization of the Association of Croatian Craftsmen started the weekly magazine Demokrat. Since this was a city with just over 8,000 inhabitants at the time and a large number of illiterates, and with reference to the fact that it was still a rural area and that there was no political party behind the newspaper, the issue of financing the paper was crucial for its survival. The paper presents the financing models of the weekly magazine and the ways in which the publisher tried to achieve greater financial stability of the paper.
Keywords
Demokrat; financing; Koprivnica; newspaper; subscription
Hrčak ID:
248861
URI
Publication date:
1.12.2020.
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