Professional Bio
Natasha Senjanovic is an award-winning reporter who covers vulnerable populations from a trauma-informed perspective. Born in the former Yugoslavia, she grew up in the US and spent 15 years in Rome, where she worked as a correspondent and Senior Editor for leading UK, US and European film publications; Asst. Director of the Pesaro Film Festival; and Contributing Editor for the bilingual European geopolitical magazine EastWest.
From 2016-2019 she was All Things Considered host and a reporter for Nashville Public Radio (WPLN). In 2020, she produced Left Without Care, a WPLN mini-series on for-profit youth psychiatric centers as part of a national investigation by APM Reports.
In 2021, she received her first-ever grant, from the Pulitzer Center, to produce Surging in Silence, a 17-part radio and print series examining the effects of the pandemic on domestic and sexual violence in Nashville and Memphis. In 2021-22, she was as a temporary editor for MPR News, for which she also produced original reporting and subbed as a podcast host. She is a member of the PMJA Editors Corps.
Her national radio work has aired on NPR, Marketplace and Here & Now, among others. Natasha speaks four languages and her awards include a Regional Murrow and PMJA prize (for Left Without Care), as well as multiple AP awards for features and for news anchoring.
In May of 2023, she became a Professional in Residence at Syracuse University, to teach radio broadcasting at Newhouse School and create long-form content for the local NPR station, WAER.
Natasha is co-creator of "I Wish I’d Known," a media training course for improving coverage of gender-based violence, among the most prevalent violent crimes on local, national and international levels.
From 2016-2019 she was All Things Considered host and a reporter for Nashville Public Radio (WPLN). In 2020, she produced Left Without Care, a WPLN mini-series on for-profit youth psychiatric centers as part of a national investigation by APM Reports.
In 2021, she received her first-ever grant, from the Pulitzer Center, to produce Surging in Silence, a 17-part radio and print series examining the effects of the pandemic on domestic and sexual violence in Nashville and Memphis. In 2021-22, she was as a temporary editor for MPR News, for which she also produced original reporting and subbed as a podcast host. She is a member of the PMJA Editors Corps.
Her national radio work has aired on NPR, Marketplace and Here & Now, among others. Natasha speaks four languages and her awards include a Regional Murrow and PMJA prize (for Left Without Care), as well as multiple AP awards for features and for news anchoring.
In May of 2023, she became a Professional in Residence at Syracuse University, to teach radio broadcasting at Newhouse School and create long-form content for the local NPR station, WAER.
Natasha is co-creator of "I Wish I’d Known," a media training course for improving coverage of gender-based violence, among the most prevalent violent crimes on local, national and international levels.
Company
WAER
215 University Place ncc.462
WAER
Syracuse, NY 13244 315.443.4021
News Organization
Job Role
Editor, Host, Producer, Reporter, Outside of the newsroom
Beats
Arts & Culture, Criminal Justice, Education, General Assignment, Social Justice/Race & Equity/Diversity