Žaklina Tatalović

Žaklina Tatalović
Жаклина Таталовић
Born (1980-03-30) 30 March 1980
EducationFaculty of Political Sciences
Alma materUniversity of Belgrade
OccupationJournalist
Years active1999–present
EmployerN1 (2018–present)
TelevisionBK, Fox, N1
WebsiteN1 Profile

Žaklina Tatalović (Serbian Cyrillic: Жаклина Таталовић; born 30 March 1980) is a Serbian journalist.[1] She worked for several television stations and currently works at N1.

Biography

Žaklina Tatalović was born in 1980 in Zemun, where she completed elementary school and the Zemun Gymnasium. She also attended the Music School Kosta Manojlović. During high school, when enrolling at the University of Belgrade, she hesitated between the Faculty of Medicine or the Faculty of Political Sciences; she decided to study journalism at the Faculty of Political Sciences. She enrolled in the faculty immediately after the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999. Since state faculties in Serbia were on strike and classes were not held, her mother enrolled her in the BK School of Journalism.[1]

She lives and works in Belgrade.

Journalistic career

She began her career as a journalist at the age of 19. After graduating from the BK School of Journalism, Tatalović stayed on to work as a volunteer at BK, where she went from being a street reporter in the morning program to an accredited journalist at the United Nations headquarters in New York City. In an interview, she said that it was while working at BK that she learned everything she knows about journalism. According to her own words, she has no role models in journalism, but she was "lucky" to have had Aleksandar Tijanić, Srđan Đurić, Bojana Lekić, Milomir Marić, Olja Milošević, Igor Šanjević as her editors, from whom she learned a lot.[2]

In 2006, she moved from BK to Fox and worked in almost all editorial departments there. As a reporter for the news program, she reported from legislative sessions of the National Assembly, and she gained recognition by asking her interlocutors very direct questions. She was a contributor to the show Veče sa Ivanom Ivanovićem and many of the questions that Ivan Ivanović asked his guests on the show were written by Žaklina Tatalović.

In 2018, when Fox was transformed into Prva Srpska Televizija, Tatalović disagreed with the new editorial policy[3] and she decided to leave that house after 12 years and move to N1,[1] where she still works today as a journalist in the news department.[4]

She advocates for objective journalism[5][6] and direct access to interlocutors. She raised topics, namely scandals and criticisms directed against the ruling coalition gathered around the Serbian Progressive Party.[7][8] Due to her approach at press conferences, which he characterized as impolite, President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić stated that she "deserved to be kicked out of the press conference a long time ago".[7]

She is often the target of inappropriate comments,[9] insults by pro-regime tabloids,[10] media[11] and dissenters[12] and she also received direct threats.[13][14]

Žaklina Tatalović appears as herself in the 13th episode of season 2 of the series Marked in the Racket.[15]

References

  1. ^ a b c Jakobović, Biljana (10 November 2023). "Žaklina Tatalović". Biografija Online (in Bosnian). Retrieved 20 August 2025.
  2. ^ Bubanja, Marija (14 March 2016). "INTERVJU: ŽAKLINA TATALOVIĆ, NOVINARKA". marijabubanja.wordpress.com (in Serbian). Retrieved 20 August 2025.
  3. ^ "Žaklina Tatalović: Pred otkaz su mi rekli da sam politički nepodobna". Kolumne & novosti – netkolumne.com (in Serbian). Retrieved 20 August 2025.
  4. ^ Beograd, N1 (1 October 2020). "Žaklina Tatalović". N1 (in Serbian). Retrieved 20 August 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ Živanović, Katarina (11 November 2020). "Žaklina Tatalović: "Nezgodna" novinarka". Danas (in Serbian). Retrieved 20 August 2025.
  6. ^ Mitrovic, Vojin (3 November 2020). "Tatalović: Za oporavak profesije je potrebno da se novinari oslobode straha". Cenzolovka (in Serbian). Retrieved 20 August 2025.
  7. ^ a b "Vučić Žaklini: Odavno ste zaslužili da Vas izbacim | Društvo i ekonomija". Direktno (in Serbian). Retrieved 20 August 2025.
  8. ^ Nova.rs (6 June 2023). ""Nefer je to što radite": Žaklina Tatalović pitala Brnabić kako će zaštiti glumce koje poslanici SNS vređaju, ona pokušala da izbegne odgovor VIDEO". NOVA portal (in Serbian). Retrieved 20 August 2025.
  9. ^ "Šta je Dragan J. Vučićević tvitovao o Žaklini Tatalović i Jugoslavu Ćosiću?". Mediacentar (in Serbian). Retrieved 20 August 2025.
  10. ^ "HuPikon: Žaklina Tatalović". Hoću u pozorište (in Serbian). Retrieved 19 January 2024.
  11. ^ "ŽAKLINA TATALOVIĆ ZA KARAKTER: NAJTEŽE SAM PODNELA OPTUŽBU DA MRZIM SVOJU ZEMLJU". Karakter. 23 May 2021. Archived from the original on 20 January 2024. Retrieved 20 August 2025.
  12. ^ Jovović, Pero (8 November 2020). "Može li jadnije: Lukas vređao Žaklinu Tatalović u emisiji". NOVA portal (in Serbian). Retrieved 20 August 2025.
  13. ^ Kalaba, Ana (5 December 2023). "Žaklina Tatalović je šokirala pretnjama koje dobija, ali nije jedina. Ovo su novinarke heroine koje svakodnevno trpe slične užase". NOVA portal (in Serbian). Retrieved 20 August 2025.
  14. ^ "Novinarka Žaklina Tatalović dobila pretnje smrću, UNS traži da se nađu počinioci". www.021.rs (in Serbian). 30 March 2023. Retrieved 20 August 2025.
  15. ^ "Zigosani u reketu" Episode #2.13 (TV Episode 2019) – IMDb, retrieved 20 August 2025