Slavko Ćuruvija

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Slavko Ćuruvija (Serbian: Славко Ћурувија), born August 9, 1949 in Zagreb, Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia was a Serbian journalist and newspaper publisher. His brutal murder on April 11, 1999 in Belgrade, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia provoked international outrage and wide condemnation. It is still not known exactly who carried out the assassination, nor who ordered it.

In the years since his untimely end, his murder has become one of the widely cited examples of Slobodan Milošević's regime's alleged brutality.

[edit] Early career

After graduating from University of Belgrade's Faculty of Political Sciences, Ćuruvija found employment as a business secretary and PR assistant at Mašinogradnja company in Belgrade. He soon became the contributor to Zagreb's Danas weekly magazine, as well as to the Social Research Center (Centar za drustvena istrazivanja).

Between 1984 and 1986, he worked as an analyst in Federal Interior Secretariat and State Security.

[edit] Career in journalism

In 1986, Ćuruvija joined the staff of Borba: initially as commentator, then advancing to the position of domestic political section editor, and eventually becoming Borba's editor-in-chief. He stayed with the daily paper until 1994 while regularly contributing to Komunist, Vjesnik, NIN, Večernji list, Nedelja, Pobjeda, TV Belgrade, TV Politika, TV Sarajevo, and some foreign publications.

In 1994, after the regime's unofficial takeover at Borba, Ćuruvija, along with many other staffers decided to leave the daily. While some of them quickly reconvened to form Naša borba, Ćuruvija took another career route, hooking up with Momčilo Đorgović to create Nedeljni telegraf - a weekly tabloid newspaper. In 1996, Slavko Curuvija founded Dnevni telegraf - Serbia's first privately owned daily in more than 50 years. Ćuruvija was DT's director and editor-in-chief, and it's sole owner.

In 1998, Ćuruvija additionally started a bi-weekly magazine Evropljanin