I am a Slovenian media policy advisor, journalist, founder, podcaster, and public intellectual with over two decades of experience in the media sector. I currently advise the Minister of Culture on media legislation and I co-authored Slovenia’s new Media Act. I also led the revision of the Public Use of Slovenian Language Act, which required Slovenian language integration into digital devices and vehicles.

Previously, I was a columnist and journalist for the biggest national daily Delo, and have contributed to numerous independent and investigative media outlets, including the investigate journalism startup Pod črto. I was also a journalism intern at The Guardian and earned my master’s degree with distinction from Goldsmiths, University of London.

I have interviewed over 500 public figures, including Shoshana Zuboff, David Graeber, Max Schrems, Jimmy Wales, Lawrence Lessig, Richard Stallman, and George Monbiot. I am also a co-founder and editor of the podcast network Marsowci, and an active contributor to media theory and cultural discourse in Slovenia.

Funfact: outside the media sphere, I am the head distiller for an informal cooperative called zganicedoping.si.

I live and work between Ljubljana and the Poljanska dolina (valley), Slovenia.

I live and work in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

In both theory and practice, my work focuses primarily on media ownership and media policy.

Together with colleagues, I created the first media ownership maps in Slovenia in 2001 and participated in several international projects analyzing the transition of media markets in post-socialist European countries.

Between 2022 and 2025, I had the opportunity to engage directly with media policymaking, contributing to the overhaul of Slovenia’s media legislation and the adoption of a new Media Act: the first successful attempt in over two decades.

As a contributor and later editor of Infoteh, a technology supplement of daily Delo, I began systematically covering telecommunications and internet policy. This background helped me understand the convergence of media and information technologies and its impact on the media industry.

My knowledge of the history of mass media and the internet also informs my efforts to develop new forms of journalism and to distinguish between fleeting online phenomena and deeper social, economic, and political transformations.

For Slovenia’s tech community Slo-tech, I co-authored a long-running series of book reviews and later added curated recommendations of documentary films. For Infoteh, I reviewed digital cameras and the photographic capabilities of smartphones. Through numerous conversations with engineers, researchers, and scientists, I also became increasingly involved in science communication.

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.