Branislav Šovljanski has been appointed to a temporary management position in N1, Adria News Belgrade announced
Will give Igor Božić replace "someone from the family" at the head of N1 "Vreme" first published.
"Branislav brings significant experience and a good understanding of editorial operations, newsroom structures and N1 professional standards. He will oversee the day-to-day functioning of the newsroom and work closely with editorial and management colleagues," the statement said.
It is important for N1 that the newsroom has the leadership, structure and support needed to provide high-quality journalism, they added.
As explained to "Vreme", Sovljanski is "temporarily" at the helm until the position of news director is officially returned to systematization in the coming weeks, which he will then officially take over.
Thus, Sovljanski will be the editor-in-chief, while the director of the company will remain Brent Sadler, who recently held that position.
After Božić was replaced, Brent Sadler told the employees at N1 that no one from outside would be brought in as program editor.
"It stays within a family" - no one from outside will be brought in, everything will stay in the family. In those words it is Brent Sadler, the new director and head of the editorial board to the employees of N1 talked about plans for a successor Igor Božić, the former first man of television. This was confirmed for "Vreme" by several sources from that meeting. Everyone present took it as a promise that the editorial function will be taken over by someone who already works at N1 or at least in another media United groups.
After that, Brent Sadler wrote to "Vreme" that the media he is responsible for must be professional and work with due care, but he denies that he is now "dissatisfied" with them.
"By professionalism, for example, I mean a clear separation of news and commentary, use of disciplined language, clear citation of sources, fair presentation of controversial claims and proportionate editorial judgments," Sadler stated and added:
Branislav Sovljanski he has been in journalism for twenty years. He worked as a reporter, editor and host of Dnevnik, head of the desk and as executive producer of N1. He has been part of the N1 team since its inception. He edited and led pre-election debates, interviews with presidential candidates as well as programs during election nights.
He has reported from numerous crisis and war zones in the country and the world, including reporting for CNN on the floods in Obrenovac in 2014, reporting on the terrorist attack in Paris in 2015 and 2016, the start of the war in Ukraine in 2022, the war in the Middle East in 2023 and 2024. He was our reporter at the first inauguration of US President Donald Trump in 2017.
He is the author of the show "360 degrees" in which he conducted hundreds of interviews and debates and through which the most respected public figures from all spheres of social and political life passed during more than seven years of broadcasting.
He graduated in Journalism in the first generation of students in that field at the Department of Media Studies, Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad in 2009.
He is part of a team of journalists who won the 2014 New York Press Club Award for investigative journalism.
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