Tomislav Jakić
| Tomislav Jakić | |
|---|---|
| Born |
23 March 1943 Zagreb, Independent State of Croatia (present-day Zagreb, Croatia) |
| Nationality | Croat |
| Alma mater | University of Zagreb |
| Occupation | Journalist, television reporter |
Tomislav Jakić (born 23 March 1943, Zagreb) is a Croatian journalist, TV reporter and former advisor to president Stjepan Mesić.
Tomislav Jakić was born on 23 March 1943 in Zagreb, Independent State of Croatia during World War II. His father was a state clerk and his mother was a teacher of German language. He spent his early life in Zagreb and graduated from the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb.
Before graduating from his faculty, he decided to enter TV journalism and in 1966 he joined the Yugoslav Radio Television (YRT). At first, he worked as a small-time reporter but gradually he became a TV anchor and later a foreign policy reporter. One of his first assignments was a report about the Yom Kippur War in 1973 when he travelled to Egypt and was amongst the first foreign TV news crews to enter Sinai.
In the 1980s he went on a journalist seminar in the United States and was the first foreign TV reporter to enter a NORAD underground base in the Rocky mountains. In 1979, he managed to negotiate in Vienna the opportunity of reporting closely the signing of the SALT II agreement which was supposed to be reserved only for American and Soviet TV crews but Jakić managed to squeeze the Yugoslav crew amongst them. Due to his excellent knowledge of the German language, he was a regular reporter from Austria, West Germany and East Germany.
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