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has been involved in journalism since 1984 on alternative and youth media in Belgrade, Zagreb and Ljubljana. He started his career on independent television Studio B, and in May 1989, he founded Radio B92, the first independent radio station in Serbia.Under his leadership, B92 has launched and developed numerous projects over the past 20 years focusing on three media – radio, television and the Internet. Matić co-founded the Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM). He is one of the most uncompromising fighters for media freedom and freedom of expression, resulting in numerous prestigious international awards. He studied world literature at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. As the majority owner of the B92 Fund, he is committed to the Fund's humanitarian projects. Since 2013, he has also been the president of the Commission for Investigation of Murders of Journalists, which was founded on his initiative and supported by the Government of Serbia. He is also the owner of the Samizdat publishing house.

the owner of the Kopernikus Corporation and the brother of Zvezdan Milovanović, until recently a longtime trustee of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party for the city of Niš. The owner of local and cable TV Kopernikus, Milovanović became the owner of TV stations with a national frequency in December 2018, when he bought the media owned by the Antenna Group - TV Prva and O2, as TV B92, Prva TV Montenegro, Play radio, six cable channels and three portals Prva.rs, O2tv.rs and B92.net were called at that time. About a month earlier, he sold the company Kopernikus Technology, a cable operator, to Telekom Srbija for about EUR 195 million. Media experts then assessed that with this purchase, the ruling Serbian Progressive Party monopolised the media market. Previously, he was in the media spotlight several times. During the 2012 election campaign, he sold eight hours of programming from one Kopernikus channel to Sens marketing, a close Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), which broadcast its own program. The Republic Broadcasting Agency announced that the parties, however, could not lease the program in that way. Milovanović was also reported in 2016 when the controversial businessman Predrag Ranković Peconi was wounded at the Hotel Prague in Belgrade. He was sitting at the table when Peconi was shot, and the media wrote that the reason for the gathering of the society was precisely the celebration organised by Srđan Milovanović for the purchase of the Prague Hotel. The Milovanović brothers are the owners of several offshore companies. According to business documentation, Srđan Milovanović has been operating through offshore companies for years. Among other things, Milovanović is the owner of the record label KCN Records, founded in 2009. The first album released by this house was an album by folk singer Jovana Tipšin, Milovanović's then girlfriend. At a public tender, Milovanović bought land in New Belgrade at the Directorate for Construction Land and Construction of Belgrade, where there was a market known as a flea market, for about 20.2 million euros, as Nova.rs reported. The Kopernikus Company should build Kopernikus Tower on this site, "the most modern and largest office complex in the country and the region" of 100,000 square metres. Data from the Business Registers Agency show that Srđan Milovanović is the owner, director or representative of 15 companies, including hotels and restaurants, such as the Belgrade Hotel Prague, companies engaged in construction, real estate sales, road freight transport and trade in tobacco products. KCN televisions with local frequency are owned by his brother Zvezdan.

Karadžić has been the editor-in-chief of B92 TV since March 2019. He came to this position after Srđan Milovanović bought the television under the name O2 at that time. At the end of the year, this television station and the team of the show "24 Minutes with Zoran Kesić" decided not to extend the contract. In a biography submitted to the Regulatory Authority for Electronic Media (REM), Karadžić states that he is a law graduate and a manager with more than 25 years of managerial experience in the television business that he has acquired in domestic and foreign television markets, especially Asia and China. During the 1990s, he worked for RT Novi Sad and the Third Channel and produced the cult New Year's program "Two Hours of Quality Program" directed by Srđan Dragojević. From 1999 to 2000, he worked for Internacional Cg (formerly Genex) as Deputy General Manager for Marketing and Tourism, and from 2001 to 2006, he was General Manager of ITV Multimedia, an SMS services company, after which he moved to the position of Deputy General Manager of Fox Television in 2007. He was a candidate for the CEO of RTS in 2015, when Dragan Bujošević was appointed to that position, and since 2016 he has been the deputy president of the Public Service Management Board. As the portal 021 wrote, university professor and sociologist Vladimir Vuletić was elected president of the RTS Managing Board at the time, and political analyst Branko Radun, political scientist Ljiljana Đurđevac and painter and participant in reality programs Zorica Šujica, among others, were elected members. The then member of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM), Gordana Suša, publicly said that she doubted that the election of members of the RTS BoD was rigged because the highest quality candidates were not elected, while REM President Goran Karadžić claimed that there was no pressure and influence on REM members during that election.

Restart: O2.TV becomes B92 as of 1 March (2020), B92, Accessed on 3 August 2023

Serbian Business Registers Agency - Media Registry, Accessed on 16 July 2023