Pogledi

Pogledi

Type	Political magazine
Publisher	NIP Pogledi
Editor	Miloslav Samardžić
Founded	1982
Language	Serbian (in the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet)
Ceased publication	2005
Headquarters	Kragujevac, Serbia
Circulation	200,000 (1990)
Website	pogledi.rs

Pogledi (Serbian Cyrillic: Погледи) was a Serbia-based magazine devoted to politics and history, published biweekly. Pogledi became notable because they were the first opposition magazine in communist Yugoslavia.

In English, Pogledi translates to Viewpoints. In total, 268 issues were published.

History

In June 1982, Pogledi began as the University of Kragujevac student magazine. The first issue was about Josip Broz Tito. The magazine first made national headlines on 1 March 1989 when they were the first media outlet in Serbia to publish that the President of the United States Harry S. Truman posthumously awarded Draža Mihailović the Legion of Merit. In 1990, Pogledi became the most read magazine in the country with a circulation of 200,000. That same year Pogledi split from the university and became an independent publishing house.

Vuk Drašković gave his first ever interview to Pogledi in 1986. Prior to their deaths in 1991, Đorđe "Giška" Božović and Vukašin Šoškoćanin gave their last interviews to Pogledi. Pogledi contributor Vladimir Siljanović died as a journalist in Sarajevo during the Bosnian War.

Notable contributors

Some of the magazine's contributors were Vidosav Stevanović, Veran Matić, Kosta Čavoški, Nikola Milošević, Srđa Trifković, Dejan Stojanović, Simo Dubajić, Momčilo Đujić, Isidora Bjelica, Biljana Srbljanović, Vanja Bulić, Radomir Mihailović, Dragoš Kalajić, Dragoslav Bokan, Momo Kapor, Prvoslav Vujčić, Danko Popović, Aleksandar I. Popović and Milić of Mačva.