Success is bittersweet for VOA’s Croatian journalists

A tall, elegant man with a goatee and an Eastern European accent ushered a guest into an office where meat pies, apple strudel and red wine were spread out on a table. “We are having a party now,” Zorz Crmaric said, “celebrating our own demise.” It was a funerary feast for the Voice of America’s Croatian service, of which Crmaric was chief until Wednesday. Born in 1992 as bloody ethnic wars ...