Serbia and the media: Dušan Mašić memorial service - "Journalism was his way of life"

A memorial service was held at Belgrade's Dom omladine for Duan Mai, an experienced journalist with a long career at the BBC in London and Belgrade, who passed away on January 31, 2022. He was 56 years old.
"I had the time of my life", the title song from the film "Dirty Dancing", played at the beginning of the memorial service of Duan Mai, symbolically described his life and journalistic career.
He liked to joke, he liked to dance, but above all, he loved journalism - it was "his way of life", as he said. He immeasurably influenced many generations of young journalists, constantly encouraging them: "Come on, come on, you can do it."
Duan Mai, an experienced journalist with a long career at the BBC in London and Belgrade, passed away suddenly at the age of 56, on January 31, 2022.
One of the founders of Radio B92, which was one of the most important free media during Slobodan Milosevic's rule and often attacked by the regime, has left a big trace on the Serbian media scene. Masic was also one of the founders of the Independent Association of Journalists of Serbia, the Association of Independent Electronic Media ANEM and the author of the book "Making Waves in Serbia".
At the memorial service held in Belgrade's Dom omladine, on Monday, February 7, his colleagues said goodbye to Masic, with whom they made journalistic bravados in Serbia in challenging times.
Duan Mai started working as a journalist in 1989, at the then B92 Youth Radio. He worked as an associate journalist, parliamentary reporter and war reporter, and in the mid-1990s he became one of the recognizable voices of B92 and the editor of the B92 Radio news program.
"It's hard for me to talk about my friendship with Masic in the past, but right now his voice echoes...