Natasha Senjanovic
Former Professional in Residence, Newhouse School/WAERNatasha Senjanovic teaches journalism at the Newhouse School and guided student journalists at WAER in creating original reporting for the station.
An award-winning reporter who covers vulnerable populations from a trauma-informed perspective, Natasha was born in the former Yugoslavia, grew up in the US and spent 15 years in Rome, Italy among other things, reporting on European film industries for leading UK, US and European film publications; and as Contributing Editor for the bilingual geopolitical magazine EastWest.
Upon returning to the US, 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 for Crisis Reporting, to produce the radio and print series Surging in Silence, examining the effects of the pandemic on domestic and sexual violence in Nashville and Memphis. In 2021-22, from MPR News she worked a temporary editor as well as occasional reporter and 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, PMJA prize and multiple AP awards, including recognition for features and anchoring.
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President Carter was committed to helping Habitat for Humanity build houses for Americans on the brink of homelessness. His support for the program can be felt here in Central New York. -
SU graduate student Cai Cafiero has lost her appeal to overturn her temporary academic probation in the fallout over the spring Gaza Solidarity Encampment. -
Increasing numbers of medical professionals are learning to recognize the signs of intimate partner violence, in order to save the new and expectant mothers. -
SU Graduate student Cai Cafiero says she is exhausting the university conduct system, per her attorney's advice, in case she decides to sue SU in the future. -
Some of the SU graduate students being sanctioned in connection with the spring Gaza Solidarity Encampment are also university employees and members of a new union that negotiated this year to prevent them from losing key campus jobs as they could have in the past. -
Two Shark Tank-style competitions teach LeMoyne and Syracuse University students business and networking skills. -
Mary Nelson is seeking donations of small backpacks for her annual back-to-school giveaway, which provides essentials to 10,000 children, with the event scheduled for August 17th at Sankofa Park in Syracuse. -
A Syracuse University student legal observer has been found guilty of violating SU's student code of conduct over their alleged participation in a pro-Palestinian protest. -
A $3M state grant, secured by Assembly member Bill Magnarelli, boosts funding for the new five-story Onondaga Historical Association Museum in downtown Syracuse. -
An SU graduate student is fighting what she calls "inappropriate" punishment from the university punishment for refusing to relocate the Gaza Solidarity Encampment.
