Nina Žnidaršič, is a young researcher and PhD student at the Social Communication Research Centre at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana.

She completed her bachelor’s degree in journalism (2018) and master’s degree in sociology (2020) at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana. At the same time, she studied philosophy and sociology at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ljubljana. Since 2020, She has been working as a junior researcher/research assistant at the Social Communication Research Centre at the Faculty of Social Sciences in Ljubljana. The title of her PhD project is Autonomy of Journalism and the Journalist’s Action in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which she will complete this year (2024).

During the PhD project, she has presented her papers and preliminary research findings at national and international conferences and doctoral schools (CEECOM, ECREA, Centre for Cultural and Historical Research of Socialism in Pula – Croatia, Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana, etc.), was a three-month research fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana (2023) and was involved in various research projects (Cost Actions, national research projects on information and communication in socialist Yugoslavia).