[1] Before graduating from his faculty, he decided to enter TV journalism and in 1966 he joined the Yugoslav Radio Television (JRT).
One of his first assignments was a report about the Yom Kippur War in 1973 when he travelled to Egypt and was amongst the first foreign TV news crews to enter Sinai.
In the 1980s he went on a journalist seminar in the United States and was the first foreign TV reporter to enter a NORAD underground base in the Rocky Mountains.
He was banned from reporting on high-profile Yugoslav politicians (especially Tito) and he was removed from news cases that involved going out of the country.
Jakić was asked to be the main reporter on Tuđman's tour in the United States and Canada in autumn of that year.
Jakić reported numerous incidents associated with Ustaše supporters during that tour, including the one where Franjo Tuđman almost held a speech under a picture of Ante Pavelić in Canada.
[2] After his return from the tour, Jakić started witnessing the deterioration of his TV station which came under the rule of the new government and later renamed HRT.
At the time, he was invited by Silvije Degen to join the Social Democratic Action of Croatia where he became the party secretary for a couple of years.
In 2002, Jakić wrote a speech for Stjepan Mesić in which he explicitly criticized the idea of a US-led military intervention in Iraq, upsetting the American diplomats.
[4] Jakić gave his resignation to president Mesić in 2003 and became a columnist for Slobodna Dalmacija, in which he wrote in a column called Parallels.
The first one was in December 2006 when a video circulated in the media where president Mesić gave a speech in Australia during the early 1990s in which he appeared to glorify the Ustaše fascist movement.
[clarification needed] In response, Jakić advised president Mesić to avoid welcoming Bush and suggested going on a tour of Southeast Asia as previously planned.
Mesić finally was forced to drop the idea of avoiding Bush and was part of the welcome protocol in Zagreb.