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Mila Moralić has left us, a journalist, humanist, fighter against injustice and corruption, trade unionist, and a convinced and dedicated activist for the labor and professional rights of journalists, especially women in the journalistic profession.
She built her journalism career at Media Servis and demonstrated the full richness of her journalistic talent, intellect, education, and perseverance at N1 Television, where she worked for six years as a reporter, editor of the main news program, and editor and host of the influential weekly political magazine “Točka na tjedan” (“The Point of the Week”).
For excellence in her journalistic work, she was awarded the Croatian Journalists’ Association (HND) annual “Marija Jurić Zagorka” award in 2025.
She was also a recipient of the prestigious Fulbright scholarship within the H. Humphrey Program at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism in the United States. There, under the mentorship of distinguished editors, including those from The Washington Post and The Boston Globe, she deepened her knowledge of contemporary challenges as well as the enduring principles of true journalism.
As a journalist, she was always focused on issues of social injustice, political corruption, and helping people exercise their rights. She followed foreign policy topics with particular understanding and an analytical approach.
The broader community, and especially her colleagues, had in Mila a reliable and always available advisor and ally in the fight for a better society, a better working environment, and honest, open, and healing communication.
Mila was a woman who brought positivity, energy, and, most importantly, solutions into the newsroom.
With ease and composure she found ways out of complicated situations, and she was also the initiator of introducing “solutions journalism” into the work of the N1 newsroom. This approach resulted in a special segment in “Točka na tjedan” — “TNT Solution". Through this segment, she introduced an important element of constructive, analytical, solutions-orientated journalism into media practice, which today is too often directed toward quick, superficial, and sensationalist coverage of everyday events.
One of her most notable professional engagements was leading the project “Zagorka Connects”, organized by the Croatian Journalists’ Union, which established a mentoring network between experienced women journalists and their younger colleagues at the beginning of their careers, with the aim of education and the professional and personal empowerment of women in journalism.
In Croatia, Mila also led the collaborative CERV project “Women in the Media – Stop Violence in Newsrooms,” whose goal was to highlight the widespread problem of sexual harassment and abuse of women in the journalistic profession. She was also a member of the European Federation of Journalists’ expert group on gender equality, GENDEG.
Her enthusiasm, passion for good journalism, her humanity, and her dedication to goals aimed at cooperation for the overall progress and well-being of the journalistic profession will be deeply missed by the journalistic community.
Mila’s passing is, without exaggeration, a blow to a democratic society in which the media are one of its foundations, and where dedicated and honest individuals make the difference.
Mila - mother, journalist, colleague.
We miss you and will miss you forever, but we will continue to persistently pursue the goals and mission to which you were so devoted, never giving up until your final moments.
To Mila’s family, her husband, children, mother and father, brother, and all members of her family, friends, and colleagues — we express our sincere condolences.
The funeral will take place on Friday, March 13 at 2:00 PM at the Šestine Cemetery, and information about the memorial service will be announced later.
