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.
Job Role
Editor, Host, Producer, Reporter, Outside of the newsroom
Beats
Arts & Culture, Criminal Justice, Education, General Assignment, Social Justice/Race & Equity/Diversity
Current Editor Corps
No