About The Paper
The Paper (Novine) is a Croatian political and newsroom drama set at a struggling daily newspaper in the port city of Rijeka. When a controversial tycoon with deep political ties buys the failing title, the journalists in the newsroom suddenly find their independence on the line. What begins as a routine fight over budgets and headlines becomes a daily test of how much truth a paper can print when its owner has interests to protect.
At the center are veteran reporters and editors who each respond differently to the pressure. Investigative journalist Dijana Mitrovic pushes hard on stories that powerful people would rather bury, while colleagues weigh principle against the practical cost of keeping their jobs. Around them swirl construction money, party operatives, prosecutors, and a city where business and politics are tightly braided, so that almost every story leads back to someone who can make a phone call.
Across three seasons the series widens from one newsroom into a broader portrait of corruption, patronage, and compromise, following how each character bends or holds firm. The Paper became the first Croatian-language drama picked up by Netflix, and it earned international attention for treating press freedom, power, and personal conscience as a single ongoing struggle rather than a tidy morality tale.
