Dusko Doder

Duško Doder (; July 22, 1937 – September 10, 2024) was an American journalist. Born in Sarajevo and raised in Yugoslavia, he moved to the U.S. in 1959 after meeting his future mentor in Vienna and became a journalist. He worked for The Washington Post between 1970 and 1985, where he was the head of its Moscow bureau from 1981 until 1985, before spending three years at U.S. News & World Report as their Beijing correspondent. His career was permanently damaged in 1992 after Time published baseless allegations about him, for which they apologized four years later.

Early life and education

Doder was born in Sarajevo on July 22, 1937, to Vaso Doder and Marija (née Gjurhu). Sarajevo and the broader Bosnia-Herzegovina region were part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia at the time. Doder grew up in Yugoslavia, living through the Nazi invasion of Yugoslavia and the authoritarian Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia that emerged after World War II. During the legal proceedings, Doder sold his house to cover costs.

with Louise Branson, Gorbachev: Heretic in the Kremlin (1991) with Louise Branson Milosevic: Portrait of a Tyrant (1991)