Vladan Dinić

Who is Vladan Dinić?

Vladan Dinić is a Serbian journalist, TV-host and editor-in chief of the weekly newspaper "Svedok".

Vladan Dinić was born in Zadar 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".