Nedjeljna Dalmacija was a Yugoslavian regional weekly newspaper based in Croatia, published from 1971 until 2002 in the cities of Split and Zagreb. Nedjeljna Dalmacija ("Sunday Dalmatia" in Croatian) started as special weekly edition of Split daily newspaper Slobodna Dalmacija in the 1970s. The paper gradually began to develop its unique editorial policy, most notably in covering topics that were banned in popular daily newspapers, but tolerated by Communist government in less-read weeklies. Even that, Nedjeljna Dalmacija suffered because of purges following Croatian Spring and had to resort to hiring reporters and columnists from other Yugoslav republics. The best known was Serbian journalist Aleksandar Tijanić, ironically nicknamed the "Giant of Croatian Journalism".