Vladan Dinić
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| Vladan Dinic | |
|---|---|
| Born | May 25, 1949 |
| Residence | Belgrade |
| Occupation | journalist |
| Website | http://www.svedok.rs |
Vladan Dinić (Serbian Cyrillic: Владан Динић; born Маy 25, 1949) is a Serbian journalist, TV-host and editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper "Svedok".[1]
Vladan Dinić was born in Zadar (SFR Yugoslavia) on the 25 of May 1949. His father served as an Officer in the JNA Army in Zadar at the time. When Vladan was born, his father left the military and the family moved back to Niš in Serbia, where they lived previously. He graduated law from the University of Niš.
His journalist career started in 1968 when he reported from chess tournaments in south-east Serbia for the daily "Politika". In 1971, Dinić began working as a correspondent for the daily "Večernje novosti". The first articles Dinić wrote were about chess tournaments, both from Yugoslavia and abroad. At the same time Dinić started writing and reporting on social and political issues in Yugoslavia and Serbia. , In 1975 Dinić moved to Ćuprija in Central Serbia, where he worked as a correspondent from the region. In 1986 he moved to Belgrade.
He was the first journalist to do an interview with Jovanka Broz after the death of Josip Broz Tito. After 13 years of silence, Jovanka Broz spoke out for the first time in public. The interview was published in "Večernje novosti" in 1993. The parts of the interview that were not published then, were later published by Dinić in his weekly "Svedok".[2]
In the early 1990s Dinić frequently reported on the breakup of Yugoslavia, from Slovenia to Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was the editor-in-chief of "Novosti plus", and then the editor of the first independent Serbian weekly "Nedeljni Telegraf".
In 1995 Vladan Dinić started his own newspaper "Svedok"[3] which gain high popularity reporting on assassinations in the Balkan criminal underground and on the links between crime and politics. Dinić still owns and edits "Svedok" and is notable for saying that he is "the only journalist in Serbia who can say who is the owner of the newspaper he works for".
Vladan Dinić is also known as a host of political talk-shows on local televisions in Serbia. For a number of years in the late 1990s he presented a TV-show "Svedočenje" on TV Belle Amie, at that time, one of a few opposition televisions in Serbia. From 2008 to 2009 he hosted a political talk-show "Politikon" on TV Palma Plus from Jagodina in Serbia. His guests included most predomanent Serbian politicians such as Zoran Đinđić, Vojislav Koštunica, Vuk Drašković, Vojislav Šešelj, Tomislav Nikolić...
Dinić has published two books: "Život u matiranoj zemlji" ("Life in a checkmated country") witch was published in Spain, and "Fišer, kralj šaha" ("Fischer, the king of chess") which was published in 2008 in Serbia.
Vladan Dinić is married and has two sons.
References
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- ↑ http://www.svedok.rs
- ↑ http://www.svedok.rs
External links
- http://www.svedok.rs
- https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=124245008710
- http://www.abcsrbija.com/katalog/index.php?option=com_mtree&task=viewlink&link_id=247&Itemid=53
- http://www.nin.co.rs/2003-06/05/29238.html
- http://www.b92.net/info/vesti/index.php?yyyy=2003&mm=06&dd=03&nav_id=110276&nav_category=16
- http://www.nspm.rs/prenosimo/imetak-i-metak-sudbina-novina-u-srbiji.html?alphabet=l#yvComment26998
journalism, Serbia, politics
