The title of this dissertation is: „World War I in Istrian journalism“. The goal of this dissertation is to present details and events from World War I which happened on territory of Istria, and as well as some familiar events outside of Istrian borders, which were published in daily or weekly newspapers in the era of War. First part of dissertation is related to World War I, with an emphasis on Istria and the main Austrian war harbour Pula too. In this part the dissertation presents events that had happened on territory od Istria, depending on different era of war. Second part of dissertation is related to newspapers that were printed on Croatian language on territory of Pula, which had given the most information about the main war zones, and about Istrian events as well. Second part of dissertation is also related to national revolution, because the printing office, that had newspapers printed in Pula was center of national revolution idea in Istria. Third part of the dissertation is related to famous persons who had contributed to sustaining Croatian culture in Istria, despite of imposition of Italian and German culture. The dissertation was made using the sources from the Main library in Pula, newspapers „Hrvatski list“ which were printed in era of World War I found on Internet pages of various libraries in Pula, and some reliable Internet sources with an emphasis on local encyclopedias.