Journalist and presenter Miroslav Lilić has passed away

(Patria) - Journalist and television presenter Miroslav Lilić has passed away, Croatian Radiotelevision reported on Tuesday.

He was born on April 8, 1944, in Siverić. He graduated in Yugoslav and comparative literature.

From 1967, he was employed at TVZ as a journalist, reporter, news exchange editor, News and Chronicle editor, editor and presenter of the central evening TV news, editor of the Daily Program, and responsible editor of the Informative-Political Program.

Under his editorship from the mid-1970s, TVZ's news programs became more interesting and lively, less formal, and more modernly edited and presented, and he twice won the award for the best edited and presented news program in the JRT TV news competition.

He was the editor-in-chief of TVZ's program from 1986, then director of programs. During that period, TVZ took a leading position in JRT and strengthened cooperation with Eurovision. He was the head of the JRT pool for the Seoul 1988 Olympic Games.

Lilić was an advisor to the Director-General of HRT for programs in 1992, from 1994, chairman of the management board of the record company Croatia Records, a member of the management board of Jadran film, and in 2000, founder and director and editor-in-chief of the program of the first private television station with a national concession, Nova TV.

He returned to HRT in 2005 as an advisor to the Director-General for programs. He published his autobiography Bez cenzure (Uncensored) in 2011.

He is also remembered by viewers for the announcement of the death of the President of Yugoslavia, Josip Broz Tito.