- You can only be rich if you have nothing or if you are filthy rich. If you're filthy rich, then you can become Soros and finance projects you care about, or you can be free like me and as poor as a church mouse. When you don't care at all, when they have nothing left to take from you. With the fact that my life would not look any different if I were as rich as Soros! –

Jasna

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Jasna Babić was a Croatian journalistic heroine and ideal of the journalistic profession. She lived for her work and was a liberal in the true sense of the word. She froze agency journalism as soon as she saw that it was becoming industrial. She considered the new practice, according to which editors insist on writing funded and predictable articles, as degrading. She believed that her profession was destroyed by planning and because of this, towards the end of her life, she wrote exclusively for fees.

Always consistent with herself and her vision of her profession, she explained her choice for HND by saying: - You can only be rich if you have nothing or if you are filthy rich. If you're filthy rich, then you can become Soros and finance projects you care about, or you can be free like me and as poor as a church mouse. When you don't care at all, when they have nothing left to take from you. With the fact that my life would not look any different if I were as rich as Soros! –

After years of observing the political life of both countries, she concluded that Croatia is a boring country. Not because nothing happens in it, all kinds of things happened every day, but because people remained the same in depth. She thought that Croatian politics lacked content - how unfair and absurd it was that former communist leaders became capitalists, and she criticized editors and managers who spill phrases and who forever swear by the abstract phrase of the common good.

And everything she did was really meaningful. Always focused on the public interest, Jasna exposed criminals, wrote about the mafia, murders, war criminals... Her favorite topic was the Croatian political scene, and she was the first to coin the term "criminal organization" for the largest Croatian political party.

Jasna is gone, but her legacy remains. She was one of the few who did not fear for her existence, the truth was always the most important thing to her and she became great in her courage.

Journalistic heroine

Jasna Babić, the heroine of Croatian journalism, began her journey as a journalist in early childhood. As the daughter of a unit, she loved to read. She devoured all literature, from fiction to professional articles. She was most impressed by the feuilletons, and she especially remembered the feuilleton written by the girl who babysat the Beatles. After reading that feature, she knew that she wanted to be a journalist.

Her first engagement was in "Polet". For the reportage series "Polet on the road" she won the first professional award. She wrote reports on the road, traveling from Jesenice to Gevgelija by hitchhiking, together with her boyfriend at the time, who was a photographer.

She established herself in the profession by writing for the newspaper "Danas". She followed the events related to the disintegration of the former state. After gaining independence, together with her colleagues, she founded the newspaper "Globus", where she worked as a war reporter. Dissatisfied with the editorial policy, together with Ivo Pukanić and Denis Kuljiš, she starts "Nacional". He begins to investigate political corruption, eavesdropping on the opposition, trade unions and journalists, and for the articles he writes, he wins the "Marija Jurić Zagorka" Award for investigative journalism.

After leaving "Nacional" she wrote for "Slobodna Dalmacija", "Jutarnji" and "Večernji list". Disagreeing with the editorial policies of most Croatian newspapers, she decided to write exclusively part-time.

Since then she has written for "Lupiga", "Express", "24express" and the portal "Oko". She also published two books on political corruption, "Zagreba Mafia" (2003) and "Urota Blaškić" (2005).

As a hobby, she has long researched the persecution of witches in Zagreb. Her great wish was to write a book on the subject. Unfortunately, the disease was faster.

Jasna Babić was remembered as one of the bravest and most important Croatian journalists.

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