Following that, he joined IWPR's London-based War Report and then spent several years leading training programs for young journalists throughout the Balkan region.

[2] His articles were published by many newspapers and magazines, among them The Guardian, The Times and Die Wochenzeitung (Zurich).

[1][3] He was also the recipient of the Order of Stjepan Radić in 2011 for his "contribution to the fight for human rights, the promotion of democracy and the discovery of truth" and the Otokar Keršovani Prize from the Croatian Journalists' Association for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism in 2015.

[1][4] "Drago Hedl has endured death threats, government litigation, beatings by local politicians and army soldiers, among others, and verbal abuse for his reporting of war crimes in Yugoslavia in the 1990s.

His struggle against ultra-nationalism, wartime propaganda and hate speech, and for tolerance and the rule of law, has led to accusations of treason.