Natasha Senjanovic is an award-winning journalist who spent 15 years in Rome covering the Italian film industry for leading international trades, before returning to the U.S. to become an anchor / reporter for Nashville Public Radio (WPLN). It was at WPLN that she began covering domestic and sexual violence, from a trauma- and data-informed lens.

From 2020-22, Natasha produced the mini-series Left Without Care (WPLN/APM Reports) and the 17-part series Surging in Silence through the Pulitzer Center, for which she serves as an Advisor/Mentor.

In 2023, Natasha became the second-ever Professional in Residence at the Newhouse School of Syracuse University. In that role, she taught radio broadcast and media literacy classes while overseeing all student reporters at local NPR affiliate WAER, for which she also produced daily news, features and podcasts.

Her national radio work has aired on NPR, Marketplace and Here & Now, among others. Natasha speaks four languages and as an international field producer has worked with award-winning investigative and news programs, including Presa Diretta (RAI) and The World (BBC Radio).

Natasha is co-creator of "I Wish I’d Known," a media training course for improving coverage of gender-based violence in print and broadcast newsrooms.

She is also a freelance editor / producer of news and long-form storytelling, media trainer, consultant and international speaker.

That’s the official spiel. As for this blog, I was inspired to start it after realizing too late (early March 2020) what was happening to friends and family in Italy, and trying to warn those around me that the pandemic would affect us al.

I also chronicled some of our shared experiences during the early days of Covid but will happily take more, new contributions for the Diary Collective from your corner of the world.