Career
Bešker started his journalistic career in 1967. Since 1989 he has been working as a correspondent from Rome for Vjesnik, Večernji list, British Broadcasting Corporation, Radio 101, Danas, Croatian Radiotelevision and Globus. Since 2000 he is a correspondent and columnist for Jutarnji list.
Bešker has a degree in journalism from the University of Zagreb.
He obtained a Doctor of Philosophy in Comparative Slavistics from the University of Milan in 2001 and currently teaches at the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Bologna. His research interests include Croatian and Bosnian literature, Morlachs in European literature, onomastics of Croatia, toponomastics of the Balkans, heortology and investigative journalism.