I am a former journalist and podcaster at Pod črto: a Slovenian independent and non-profit media outlet focusing on investigative reporting, data journalism and in-depth stories. I am also a co-editor of the online magazine Disenz. I now work as an advisor on media policy for the Slovenian minister of Culture and Media.

I was a staff writer (technology and media correspondent) at the biggest Slovenian national daily Delo for more than a decade. I follow the trends in telecommunications and information technologies (IT) and track the changes brought about by the convergence of the communication and media industries. I am the author and co-author of several books, expert articles, and studies on the subjects of media ownership and new media.

In 2015, I founded a podcasting network Marsowci whete I co-host a book podcast Membranje and a photography podcast Fotkast.

My recent work focuses on media ownership and computational propaganda, social and political impacts of new technologies, the social realities of the so-called “creative society”, and the politics of science.

I live and work in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Research and academia

In 2008, I finished an MA programme at Goldsmiths College, London (with distinction) in Transnational Communication and Global Media.

I also work as a researcher and an invited lecturer for several academic institutions including the Faculty of Social Sciences and Faculty of Arts (University of Ljubljana), Peace Institute, the Educational Research Institute, and Institute Jožef Stefan.

Education and experience

July 2022 –

Media Policy Advisor

Minisrty of Culture and Media

September 2017 – July 2022

Journalist and podcaster

Pod črto (The Bottom Line)

January 2015 –

Founder

Marsowci podcast network

January 2015 – July 2022

Board member

Pod črto

September 2008 – August 2017

Staff writer at Delo daily

Delo / Sobotna priloga

Januar 2002 – Januar 2015

Member of the Editorial Board

Mediawatch Journal

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Postgraduate student

Goldsmiths College, Univesity of London

February 2006 – September 2008

Uk Correspondent

Delo Daily

November 2003 – Februar 2006

Information Technology Editor

Delo Newspaper

January 2002 – December 2004

Co-Founder

Media Forum, center za javno komuniciranje

1995 – 2001

IT correspondent

Freelance journalist

Interviews

As a journalist, I had the opportunity to meet and interview many important thinkers, writers, artists, academics, scientists, activists, and business people who found themselves at the crossroads between technology, society, and economy.

Among them were:

Lawrence Lessig

founder of Creative Commons

Richard Stallman

founder of Free Software Foundation

Jimmy Wales

founder of Wikipedia

Gert Loovink

founder of Institute of Network Cultures

John Markoff

NYT writer and historian of the Silicon Valley

Colin Campbell

author of The Easternisation of the West

Denis McQuail

author of Mass Communication Theory

John Keane

political theorist and author of Media and Democracy

Michael Hardt

political philosopher and co-author of Empire

Erwin Neher

biophysicist and Nobel Prize winner for Medicine

Denis Noble

pioneer of Systems Biology and author of Music of Life

George Monbiot

environmental activist and author of Heat

Jello Biafra

musician and political activist

Lee Rainie

Director of the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project

Max Schrems

Austrian student who started a campaign Europe vs. Facebook

Simon Rogers

(former) editor of the the Guardian Datablog and Datastore

Amelia Andersdotter

Swedish politician and a “pirate” Member of the European Parliament

Evgeny Morozov

author of The Net Delusion and To Click Everything Click Here

Rayid Ghani

data scientist for Obama 2012 Campaign

Stelarc

performance artist

Birgitta Jonsdottir

politician, activist and pirate

James Nachtwey

War Photographer

William (Bill) Binney

former NSA intelligence official and whistleblower

Dan Gillmor

author of We The Media

Sebastião Salgado

Brasilian social documentary photographer

David Graeber

Anthropologist and Activist

Shoshana Zuboff

Author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

and many others.

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