Milorad Vučelić

Milorad Vučelić is a journalist and former member of the Socialist Party of Serbia. He was the CEO of RTV Novi Sad and wrote for the newspapers Politika and NIN. He became the editor of NIN in 1985 and held that position until 1991. He was also the manager of theatre company "Zvezdara teatar" and the artistic director of "Budva grad teatar." From 1992 to 1995, he was the CEO of Radio Television of Serbia (RTS), when it was a propaganda instrument of the Milošević regime. Although he presents himself as a leftist and an admirer of Che Guevara, Vučelić was close to the nationalist and dictator Slobodan Milošević in the 90s. He left the Socialist Party of Serbia in 1995 but returned from 1997 to 1998. From 1997 to 1999, he was the president of the Management Board of AD Telekom Srbija and became president of the Handball Association of Yugoslavia.

After the murder of the democratic Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić in 2003, Vučelić was arrested in a police operation called Sablja in relation to the murder and held for 20 days in custody. Later on, the Constitutional Court found this police operation unconstitutional. In addition, the former investigative journalism TV show, and now the web portal, Insajder, published a police report stating that Vučelić was involved in cigarette smuggling in the 90s, which he denied. He became the vice president of the SPS in 2003 and came second in the 2006 elections for the Party president, behind Ivica Dačić.

He founded the Pečat Weekly in 2008 and was its editor-in-chief.

Today, he is close to the ruling Serbian Progressive Party, which he often publicly defends.

In October 2015, as the vice president of the Partizan Football Club, he was unanimously elected as the first man of the Partizan Yugoslav Sports Association, and a year later, he was elected as the president of the Partizan Football Club. He resigned from the post in August 2023.

In September 2017, he was appointed acting editor-in-chief of Večernje Novosti and all publications of the Novosti company.

Patriarch Porfirije awarded him the Order of Saint Sava for "many years of successful cooperation, journalistic professionalism, and affirmation of Christian values and virtues" in 2021.