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Company director Dan Graf and one of the founders and owners of the Danas newspaper, Dušan Mitrović, died today in Belgrade at the age of 70, after a long and serious illness.
Photo: TodayDan Graf, as editor of the Danas newspaper, has been a director since the second year of its existence, since 1998.
After graduating from school in Kraljevo, where he was born, he began his professional and political career at the Yugoslav Socialist Youth Association, where, among other things, he was vice president of the Serbian Socialist Youth Association.
He graduated from the Belgrade Faculty of Political Science.
He then continued his career in union waters, and on several occasions he was secretary of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Serbia, after which he participated in the foundation and later became vice president of United Branch Trade Unions Nezavisnost.
He moved from the union scene to the media business and first worked at Borba newspaper when Stanislav Stasa Marinkovic was editor-in-chief. In Borba, he dedicated himself to the placement and sale of newspapers, which he did during the first year in Danas as deputy director.
He moved from Borba to Naša Borba, where he was a sales director, then founded the newspaper Danas with a group of journalists.
He is credited with developing the street vending of newspapers, and then new alternative distribution networks, from which many emerged, including the strongest newspaper distribution companies in Serbia today.
The funeral will be held in his hometown of Cvetka, near Kraljevo, on Thursday, October 22 at 1 p.m.
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