Draggan Mihailovich

Draggan Mihailovich CBS News

Draggan Mihailovich is an award-winning shaper and the enforcement exertion of 60 Minutes. He joined the elder ranks of the CBS newsmagazine successful August 2025 aft spending 27 years arsenic a shaper for 60 Minutes and 60 Minutes II. His standout reporting, profiles and investigations person earned him 7 Emmys and 3 Edward R. Murrow Awards. Mihailovich joined the broadcast successful 1998.

Mihailovich has produced epic stories of escapade and profiles of courage, led high-stakes investigations and reported from the beforehand lines of warfare zones. His franchise reporting connected the Sudanese mislaid boys, 3,000 young men who were orphaned during Sudan's civilian warfare and resettled successful the U.S., was recognized with an Emmy Award. Mihailovich's unmasking of Rafid Ahmed Alwan, the Iraqi defector codification named "Curve Ball" whose fabricated communicative of mobile biologic weapons was cardinal to the U.S. penetration of Iraq, was honored with an Emmy, arsenic was a study connected the conflict against Islamic extremists wrong Pakistan that featured an interrogation of President Asif Ali Zardari. Mihailovich was dispatched to the rainfall forests of the Foja Mountains successful New Guinea for a communicative connected uncommon taxon recovered obscurity other successful the world, flown to the far-flung and uninhabited Aleutian land of Attu for a diagnostic connected the lone onshore conflict connected North American ungraded during World War II, interviewed 11-year-old Elian Gonzalez astir becoming the halfway of a custody conflict betwixt the U.S. and Cuba, and traveled to Yemen to interrogation Osama bin Laden's erstwhile idiosyncratic bodyguard. During his much than two-decade career, he's profiled planetary tennis prima Novak Djokovic, University of Alabama shot manager Nick Saban, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, St. Louis Cardinals' shot large Albert Pujols, NBA superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo, and Olympic Gold medalist Michael Phelps. 

He began his vocation astatine 60 Minutes moving with correspondents Steve Kroft and Bob Simon. Over the past decade, Mihailovich has produced for Jon Wertheim and Sharyn Alfonsi.

Before joining the CBS newsmagazine, Mihailovich led the Olympic probe departments for CBS Sports and ABC Sports for six years. During his tenure astatine CBS Sports, helium served arsenic an Olympic diagnostic shaper wherever his reporting was honored with 4 Emmy Awards, including a 35-minute illustration of Olympian and WWII bombardier Louis Zamperini, whose level crashed into the Pacific and was the inspiration for the bestselling publication and film, "Unbroken."

Mihailovich began his journalism vocation successful assemblage astatine The University of North Carolina wherever helium served arsenic Woody Durham's vigor colour commentator during Carolina shot games for the Tar Heel Sports Network. While successful school, helium besides contributed articles to The Daily Tar Heel arsenic a reporter. After graduating from UNC successful 1983, helium was hired to service arsenic Associate Sports Editor for The Chapel Hill Newspaper.

Mihailovich was inducted into the North Carolina Media and Journalism Hall of Fame successful 2022 and was presented with UNC's Distinguished Young Alumni Award successful 2001. 

Mihailovich graduated from UNC with a grade successful Journalism. He lives successful Stamford, Connecticut with his wife. They person 3 children.