[2] The magazine, billed as an "independent Serb weekly" (samostalni srpski tjednik), describes its editorial policy as being primarily concerned with covering general news and publishing "critical writing about all the relevant political, social and cultural developments in Croatia".

Over the time magazine published interviews with Noam Chomsky,[5] Etgar Keret,[6] Zygmunt Bauman,[7] Henry Giroux,[8] Srećko Horvat,[9] Milorad Pupovac,[10] Chris Hedges,[11] Jacques Rancière,[12] Vivek Chibber,[13] Filip David,[14] Georges Wolinski,[15] Mladen Ivanić,[16] Vesna Teršelič,[17] Andrej Nikolaidis,[18] Mirjana Karanović,[19] and Edvin Kanka Ćudić[20] In early 2019, Novosti celebrated publication of its issue number 1,000 at the Croatian Journalists' Association building in Zagreb.

The event was attended by Milorad Pupovac, Nadežda Čačinovič, Budimir Lončar, Ivica Đikić, Vesna Teršelič, Drago Pilsel, Hrvoje Klasić as well as ambassadors of Serbia, Slovenia and Norway in Croatia.

[23] To that extent, the magazine hired a number of prominent columnists and intellectuals as commentators, including Viktor Ivančić (formerly of Feral Tribune), Boris Dežulović, Vladimir Arsenijević, Tomislav Jakić and Igor Mandić, and was for the first time made available for purchase at newsstands.

"[1] Some of the sentences published in Novosti that made part of the Croatian public feel insulted were the following: "Asshole Croatia is a nation state of assholes and their public service"[31] "Scientists brag that they found the reason for existence of an appendix, while for Croatian sovereignty, up to this day, no one knows what it serves for, or does it even exists...."[32] Initiators of the petition for repeal of the funding refer to the same tender criterion which enabled the funding of Novosti, which states: "those who promote intolerance towards any national minority or majority will be banned from contesting on [this] tender in period of 3 years.