Milomir Marić
Milomir Marić (born 1956 in the Grabovica village near Gornji Milanovac, PR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian journalist, writer, and television presenter.[1] Currently, he is hosting two popular weekly talk shows on Happy TV, Ćirilica and Goli život.
He began his journalism career in Duga, a magazine re-established in Belgrade during the early 1970s. His literary technique was heavily influenced by New Journalism, a style emanating from the United States with writers such as Norman Mailer, Truman Capote, and Gay Talese.
Marić made his name by interviews with Yugoslav dissidents, like Franjo Tuđman, who he interviewed in 1981. His articles often led to sackings of his editors in the 1980s.
Marić was able to secure interviews with many aging communists in the 1980s, and he published his book Deca komunizma (Children of Communism) in 1987. based on these interviews. Vladimir Dedijer was his mentor during the time (1979–1986) he wrote this book. The book was a huge success, and he soon got invitation for professional training at Yale, Harvard and Princeton.
In the early 1990s he returned to Belgrade, becoming editor-in-chief of the Duga magazine. Although critical of regime of Slobodan Milošević, Milošević's wife, Mira Marković, had a column in Duga at the time, which was often ridiculed for its poetic naivety. During this time, his journalist, Dada Vujasinović, died from gun bullet under suspicious circumstances (the death was officially described as suicide).
Later in the 1990s Marić is sacked, and begins to edit various other journals such as Profil. In 2001, he got named the program director at BK TV, a position he performed until 2004.
He returned to television in 2008 as host of Ćirilica on Happy TV.