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Noted Belgrade journalist Dragan Petrovic, a correspondent for the Italian news agency ANSA, has died in Belgrade at the age of 69 from the effects of the corona virus, the family announced today.
Dragan Petrović was born on July 28. In 1951 in Belgrade, he graduated from the II Belgrade Gymnasium and the Faculty of Political Science.
As a student, he began working at Radio Belgrade, where he spent most of his time in the foreign policy section, dealing with neighbors and often reporting on the ground about events in the region, such as the events in Bucharest in the moment of The Fall of Ceausescu.
With Radio Belgrade, he won three prestigious “Ondas” awards, which is considered the “Oscar” of broadcasting.
In the early 1990s, due to disagreements with editorial policy during the Slobodan Milosevic government, he was forced to leave Radio Belgrade, along with most of the professional journalists.
He moved to ANSU, where he was a mainstay of the Belgrade Correspondence Office for 30 years, as a senior professional.
He will be remembered as a wonderful and gentle man with a pleasant voice when everyone adored him.
The time and place of Dragan Petrović’s funeral will be announced later.
