He was a founder and one of the editors of the first Montenegrin political magazine Krug (1990) that promoted values of open society, democracy, and liberalism while nationalism was advancing in a dissolving SFRJ.
Ivanović then worked as a journalist and editor of a magazine Monitor, a respectable anti-war weekly.
With a group of colleagues, Ivanović founded the first independent daily newspaper Vijesti, which started coming out on 1 September 1997.
Đukanović then begun a long term campaign of pressures and attacks on Vijesti, in order to diminish their influence and change the editorial policy.
Ivanović is a South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) coordinator for Montenegro.