Boro Kontić is the director of Mediacentar Sarajevo since 1995. He is the author of the documentary movie “Years eaten by lions”, about journalism and hate speech in ex-Yugoslavia between 1991. and 2010. He has been the president of the Independent Union of BiH journalists.
During the war in Sarajevo, he was a member of the Management Board of Radio-Television of B&H, and then a reporter for Voice of America.
Before the war, he was the editor-in-chief of Radio Sarajevo Youth Program and then of Radio Sarajevo Program II. He started radio broadcast in 1979 by producing and hosting a live show called Primus.
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Direktor sarajevskog Medija centra Boro Kontić više od 30 godina je u novinarstvu, a najširoj javnosti bivše SFRJ bio je poznat kao autor legendarne radijske emisije Primus, u kojoj je nastala i Top lista nadrealista. Osamdesetih je bio glavni urednik Omladinskog programa Radio Sarajeva, a kasnije i glavni urednik Drugog programa ove medijske kuće. Tokom rata u BiH izveštavao je za Glas Amerike, a bio je i predsednik Nezavisne unije profesionalnih novinara BiH, dobitnik je raznih novinarskih nagrada…

