His journalistic career started in 1968 when he wrote on chess tournaments in south-east Serbia for the leading national daily "Politika".

In 1971, Dinić began working as a correspondent for the "Večernje novosti", the biggest daily newspaper in SFR Yugoslavia.

After 13 years of silence since Tito's death, Jovanka Broz spoke out for the first time in public in a series of interviews to Vladan Dinić.

[3] In the early 1990s Dinić frequently reported for "Večernje novosti" on the breakup of Yugoslavia, from Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In May 1995 Vladan Dinić started his own weekly "Svedok"[4] which gained high popularity reporting on the Balkan criminal underground and on the links between crime and politics.

For a number of years in the late 1990s he presented a TV-show "Svedočenje" on TV Belle Amie in his hometown Nish, at that time, one of a few opposition televisions in Serbia.