The first issue of Dan appeared on 31 December 1999.[4] Right from its start, Dan was one of the harshest critics of Milo Đukanović's regime in Montenegro. In May 2001, as Croatian magazine Nacional began a series of articles and insider interviews on state-sponsored cigarette smuggling in Montenegro under Djukanovic's regime, Dan was the only media outlet in the country to bring the details of the 'Nacional affair' to the Montenegrin public.
On 27 May 2004 Dan founder and editor-in-chief Duško Jovanović was assassinated on a Podgorica street in front of the paper's offices. Even though a prolonged police investigation led to a couple of arrests, along with an immediate suspected assassin currently on trial, the individuals behind the murder have still not been identified. It is alleged that the DPS-controlled government both sponsored and covered up the killing. Furthermore, on 11 July 2005, an unidentified male left an explosive device in front of the newspaper's Podgorica offices. However it did not detonate.[5]
On 3 June 2006, Montenegrin state prosecutor Vesna Medenica decided to press charges against Dan columnist Dragan Rosandić due to the first post-referendum text in his regular column. The charge claims that through his piece titled Prokleta avlija ("Damned prison"), Rosandić "exposed to ridicule the peoples, national and ethnic groups of Montenegro that voted for Montenegrin independence". The charges were later dropped as unfounded.[6]
In addition to the daily "Dan", publisher "Jumedia Mont" also includes the weekly "Revija D" newsmagazine, as well as two radio stations: "Radio D" and Radio "D plus", which in recent years have gained a lot of audience and popularity in Montenegro.
