Natasha Senjanovic
Professional in Residence, Newhouse School/WAERNatasha Senjanovic teaches radio broadcasting at the Newhouse School while overseeing student journalists at WAER and creating original reporting for the station. She can also be heard hosting All Things Considered some weekday afternoons.
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 for features and anchoring.
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The clinic comes after six people came into contact with a rabid fox in the Eastwood neighborhood area.
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Syracuse's recreational cannabis industry faces a bottleneck as licensing disputes limit dispensaries, leaving many growers struggling to find markets for their products.
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The first annual meeting was held over the weekend, and featured guest speakers and demos to help the local community.
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A group of middle schools girls from the Syracuse City School District built robots, learned binary code and discussed a future in STEM – entirely in Spanish
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The statue can be removed, but those who don't want it to be say that would destroy a part of the city's history
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The Surge Link program promises to provide free internet to more than 2,500 of Syracuse's most economically vulnerable households.
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Auburn, New York wants to educate even more people on the life and work of renowned abolitionist Harriet Tubman.
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Legislators hope that making employers publicly post wage and salary information will help reduce historic pay inequity gaps.
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Dr. Jenny Meyer says coaches and teachers should work together to make sure student-athletes heal properly from concussions
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Tim Penix, vice president of the SUNY Syracuse Educational Opportunity Center, is co-chair of the Micron Community Engagement Committee.