Vladan Dinić (Serbian Cyrillic: Владан Динић; born May 25, 1949) is a Serbian journalist, TV-host and editor-in-chief of "Svedok" magazine.

Early life

Vladan Dinić was born in

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( 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 to

Niš Niš (; sr-Cyrl, Ниш, ; names in other languages) is the third largest city in Serbia and the administrative center of the Nišava District. It is located in southern part of Serbia. , the city proper has a population of 183,164, while ...

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, where they originally come from. Dinić studied law at the

University of Niš The University of Niš ( sr, Универзитет у Нишу, Univerzitet u Nišu) is a public university in Serbia. It was founded in 1965 and consists of 13 faculties with 1,492 academic staff and around 20,500 students (as of 2018–19 sch ...

Journalist

His journalistic career started in 1968 when he wrote on chess tournaments in south-east

for the leading national daily "

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". In 1971, Dinić began working as a correspondent for the " Večernje novosti", the biggest daily newspaper in SFR Yugoslavia. First articles Dinić wrote were about chess tournaments, both from

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and abroad. At the same time Dinić started reporting on social and political issues in

and

. In 1975 Dinić moved to

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in Central Serbia, where he worked as a correspondent from the region. In 1986 he moved to Belgrade. Dinić was the first journalist to do an interview with

Jovanka Broz Jovanka Broz (; sr-Cyrl, Јованка Броз, Будисављевић; 7 December 1924 – 20 October 2013) was the First Lady of Yugoslavia as the wife of Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito. She was a lieutenant colonel in the Yugoslav P ...

after the death of Josip Broz Tito. After 13 years of silence since Tito's death,

spoke out for the first time in public in a series of interviews to Vladan Dinić. The interviews were published in " Večernje novosti" in 1993. Unpublished parts of the interviews were later published by Dinić in "Svedok" and in his book on Jovanka. In the early 1990s Dinić frequently reported for "Večernje novosti" on the breakup of

, from

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and

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Editor

He was the editor-in-chief of "Novosti plus" before becoming one of the editors of the first independent weekly in Serbia - "Nedeljni Telegraf". In May 1995 Vladan Dinić started his own weekly "Svedok" which gained high popularity reporting on the Balkan criminal underground and on the links between crime and politics. Dinić still owns and runs "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''".

Television host

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 in his hometown Nish, 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 leading Serbian politicians such as

Zoran Đinđić Zoran Đinđić ( sr-Cyrl, Зоран Ђинђић, ; 1 August 1952 – 12 March 2003) was a Serbian politician who served as the prime minister of Serbia from 2001 until his assassination in 2003. He was the mayor of Belgrade in 1997. Đinđi� ...

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Vojislav Šešelj Vojislav Šešelj ( sr-Cyrl, Војислав Шешељ, ; born 11 October 1954) is a Serbian politician, founder and president of the far-right Serbian Radical Party (SRS); he was convicted of war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal ...

Tomislav Nikolić Tomislav Nikolić ( sr-Cyrl, Томислав Николић, ; born 15 February 1952) is a Serbian retired politician who served as the president of Serbia from 2012 to 2017. A former member of the far-right Serbian Radical Party (SRS), he di ...

Aleksandar Vučić Aleksandar Vučić ( sr-Cyrl, Александар Вучић, ; born 5 March 1970) is a Serbian politician serving as the president of Serbia since 2017, and as the president of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) since 2012. Vučić serve ...

, etc.

Author

Dinić has published several books: "Život u matiranoj zemlji" ("Life in a checkmated country") which was published in Spain, and "Fišer, kralj šaha" ("

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, the king of chess") which was published in 2008 in Serbia. He also authored a book of interviews with Jovanka Broz, the widow of late Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito, titled "Osuđena bez suđenja: Šta mi je pričala Jovanka Broz" ("Sentenced without trial: What Jovanka Broz said to me" (2013), Dinić also published a book discussing the mysterious background into the life and identity of Josip Broz Tito - "Tito (ni)je Tito - konačna istina" (Tito is(not) Tito - the final truth) (2013). In 2014 Dinić published a book about the Sarajevo assassination which was a trigger for

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. The book is titled: "Sarajevski atentat 1914. Princip i Veliki rat" ("The Sarajevo assassination of 1914. Princip and the Great War").

Personal life

Vladan Dinić is married and has two sons.

References

External links

* http://www.svedok.rs * 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* * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTQudnIqv-Q * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp_5i-QqVis {{DEFAULTSORT:Dinic, Vladan Serbian journalists University of Niš alumni Living people 1949 births