Aleksandar Tijanić

Aleksandar Tijanić Александар Тијанић
Tijanić in 2012.
Minister of Information
In office 1996–1996
Succeeded by	Radmila Milentijević
Media adviser of the President of FR Yugoslavia
In office 2000–2002
General director of the Radio Television of Serbia
In office 2004–2013
Personal details
Born	(1949-12-13)13 December 1949 Đakovica, SAP Kosovo, FPR Yugoslavia
Died	28 October 2013(2013-10-28) (aged 63) Belgrade, Serbia
Nationality	Serbian
Occupation	Journalist, columnist

Aleksandar Tijanić (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Тијанић; 13 December 1949 – 28 October 2013) was a Serbian journalist and director of the country's public broadcaster Radio Television of Serbia from 2004 to 2013. During his career he was a star columnist for leading newspapers and magazines published in SFR Yugoslavia and Serbia, editor in chief of several prominent television stations, political advisor to prominent Serbian politicians, and Information Minister for four months in 1996 in the government headed by Mirko Marjanović during the rule of Slobodan Milošević.

He was very much a polarising figure in Serbian society and gathered a great deal of admirers as well as enemies throughout the years. He died on October 28, 2013 from a heart attack.

Tijanić was born in Đakovica, FPR Yugoslavia. After finishing high school in his home town, he moved to Belgrade to study journalism at University of Belgrade's Faculty of Political Sciences. He did not complete his studies.

After working his way up during the late 1970s and early 1980s in Politika publications such as Auto Svet, he got a sought-after job at NIN magazine, where he first wrote for the supplement on vehicles and eventually advanced to a position on the editorial board. His job in NIN was a springboard for other top editorial positions. In the mid-1980s he was editor-in-chief of Intervju, another weekly magazine from Politika AD family. In parallel, he wrote for periodical publications in Croatia, Slovenia, and Bosnia.

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