Vladan Dinić

Vladan Dinic
Born (1949-05-25) 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, Serbia, where they lived previously. He studied law at the University of Niš.

His journalist career started in 1968 when he wrote on 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 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.

Dinić was the first journalist[2] to do an interview with Jovanka Broz after the death of Josip Broz Tito. After 13 years of silence since Tito's death, Jovanka Broz 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. The parts of the interviews not published then, were later published by Dinić in his weekly "Svedok" and in his book on Jovanka.[3]

In the early 1990s Dinić frequently reported for "Večernje novosti" on the breakup of Yugoslavia, from Slovenia to Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was the editor-in-chief of "Novosti plus" before becoming one of the editors of the first independent Serbian weekly "Nedeljni Telegraf".

In May 1995 Vladan Dinić started his own newspaper "Svedok"[4] which gained high popularity reporting on killings in 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".

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 several books: "Život u matiranoj zemlji" ("Life in a checkmated country") which was published in Spain, and "Fišer, kralj šaha" ("Fischer, 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" (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" (2013), In 2014 Dinić published a book about the Sarajevo assassination which was a trigger for WW1. The book is titled: "Sarajevski atentat 1914. Princip i Veliki rat".

Vladan Dinić is married and has two sons.

References

  1. ↑ "Katanac na nedeljnike". Glas javnosti. 16 July 2009. Retrieved 4 April 2010.
  2. ↑ "Laža i Paralaža". Svedok. Svedok. 2013. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
  3. ↑ http://www.svedok.rs
  4. ↑ http://www.svedok.rs
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