Sasa Vucinic
Serbian journalist and media development entrepreneur
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Name in Arabic:
ساشا فوتشينيتش
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Nationality:
Serbian
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Country of Residence:
كوريا الجنوبية
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Sasa Vucinic's Bio
Provided by Manhom
Serbian journalist and media development entrepreneur. Sasa is the co-founder of North Base Media and former CEO & Managing Director of the Media Development Investment Fund.
Current positions
- Co-founder, North Base Media VC
- Founder & CEO, V Media Ventures (since April 2011)
- Founder, IndieVoices, a crowdfunding portal for independent media in developing countries
Previous positions
- CEO & Managing Director, Media Development Investment Fund (formerly Media Development Loan Fund) until 31 March 2011
- General Manager & Editor-in-Chief, Radio B92, Belgrade (1990-1993)
- Editor-in-Chief of Non weekly political news magazine; early journalistic work there from 1979; rising to editor-in-chief in 1989
- Media consultant for the Soros Foundation Network, Prague (1993-1995)
Awards and recognitions
- Author of Evropa za nas (with Ljiljana Biuković and Miodrag Pepić), published by Triangle Press in 1989
- Delivered a TED talk in Oxford in July 2005 on free press and challenges faced by independent media globally
- Through MDIF, under his leadership over $100 million in loans made to independent media worldwide by 2012, funding over 200 projects in 30 countries; reaching over 36 million people in developing countries
Education
- Degree in International Law, University of Belgrade, 1985
- General Manager Program, Harvard Business School, 2000
- Private Equity Executive Education Course, Harvard Business School, 2003




