She will be remembered as the director of B92, during whose mandate the show was cancelled "Impression of the week""and expelled from this television Olja Bećković, but also as the founder of a television irresistibly close to her own - K1.
These are the main items of Manja Grcic's work biography that probably position her high in the race for the chair of the first person of RTS.
Despite the very fruitful cooperation with the regime, during which television stations such as B92 and Prva have completely changed their image, journalists' associations appeal that Manja Grcic's candidacy is potentially problematic due to her university degree, as well as the existing conflict of interest.
Esgotic education that creates leaders
Grcic was born in 1979 in Sarajevo, according to her official biography allegations that she was educated in Libya, Iraq, Zambia and Sri Lanka because her father worked abroad. From the age of 18, she says, she lived alone in England, reports Istinomer.
"I built myself in such a way that I did not miss any chance in life, that I recognized it and I knew that I wanted to be successful. Did I know that I would be what I am today - no, but I knew that I would succeed. Because life and my parents, my mother above all, always taught me by example that in life you should be a winner," she told Telegraf 2020. years.
He says she has "always been a leader."
"When you move every two years to a new country and to a new school, you have two choices. One choice is to try to adapt to the situation somewhere and to slowly try to make friends, so that they are not intrusive. The other way, which I chose is - boom. I came to new schools every time and conquered... When I say leader... I was the person who chose the path to assert myself and to go out and be noticed. And that somehow, it seems to me, brought me here. Can you imagine coming to Zambia for school?"
Expert in pro-regime transformation
Grcic points out that she graduated in journalism "at the Faculty of Journalism in England". She worked as a journalist at the BBC, at TV B92, she was a public relations advisor at the American agency USAID, and at Pink TV she was the director of the company 'Medija Sistem'. From 2006, she became the deputy director of Fox Television, and from 2008 she held the position of director of the national television station TV3 Slovenia, which belongs to MTG (Modern Times Group) in Slovenia," the biography reads.
At the beginning of 2011, she became the general director of Radio-television B92. On that one function she was there until 2013, "after which she joined Antena Group where she held the position of director of corporate and regulatory affairs". At that time from the program TV B92 taken off is the show "Impression of the Week" by Olja Bećković. Antena Group is the company that bought B92 in 2010.
"On Tuesday (November 4), PG Mreža and you informed the public that you invited the president of the Board of Directors of TV B92 Veran Matić, the executive director Stefanos Papadopoulos and the director of corporate and regulatory affairs of Antena Group for Southeast Europe Manja Grcic to be a guest on the show 'Impression of the Week' on November 9. What did they answer you? Will they come? 'So far we only have the answer of the director of corporate and regulatory affairs of Antena Group for Southeast Europe Manja Grcic that, of course, they will not It's true, that answer didn't reach us, but it was published in the official gazette Informer, which certainly has more specific weight," said Olja Bećković in 2014.
Friend Zeljko
In June 2015, she became the director of "Antena Group" for Serbia and Montenegro. In May 2019, she left the position of director of Prva Television, after leaving Prva TV and TV O2 at the end of 2018 bought the company "Copernikus" for 180 million euros.
At the beginning of 2020, he founded K1 television.
"My friend Željko Joksimović invited me to create three new televisions together with him (K1, TV Doktor and Kazbuka). For me, it was a challenge because for the first time I got the chance to build something that was partly mine... We wanted to offer the market something different. Primarily quality - both in terms of content and production, and by that I mean sound, light, the expertise of the people who do it, the way of recording," Grcic said then.
At the end of 2020, she became the presenter of the morning program of television K1. She is co-owner, with Željko Joksimović, of the company "Minacord Media". The director of the company Tačno do o, which is the owner of the news agency Tanjug, is on top of all that.
At the end of April 2021, the Government of Serbia elected her as a member of the Board of Directors of the Belgrade Philharmonic. She held that position until January 2026.
Media experts think that Grcic could be in a conflict of interest because she is the owner of one commercial media, but also the director of another, and all of these media are connected to Telekom, which is also in state hands.
The Association of Journalists of Serbia has doubts that Manju Grčič could be disqualified even by a diploma. They ask the Management Board of RTS whether Manja Grcic's diploma has been certified in Serbia, given that her biography states that she graduated from the University of Leeds in Britain.
