Dinko Gruhonjić is an associate professor at the Department of Media Studies of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Novi Sad. He earned his PhD from the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade, and his Magister Degree at the Faculty of Philosophy, where he also completed his bachelor studies. His primary spheres of interest are news agency journalism, internet journalism, journalism genres and modern media systems. The topics Dinko covers are also human rights and politics, with the focus on the role of media in facing the traumatizing wartime past, the treatment of minority and marginalized groups in media, media on minority languages, and civil sector media. He is the author of the books News Agency Journalism Discourse and Hybrid Journalism Genres, as well as the collection of columns and journalism essays Unprovoked Collection. He is one of the initiators of the international scientific conference “The Role of Media in the Normalization of Relations in the Western Balkans”, held at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad.
Apart from his academic career, he has been a professional journalist since 1997, combining theory and practice, with the aim to stay in journalistic shape, and to remain authentic and relevant while teaching. He also participates in civic activism: he was the president of the Independent Journalist Association of Vojvodina, he is one of the founders of the coalition of civil society organizations Civic Vojvodina and an active member of regional initiatives of organizations of civil society, such as REKOM, Igman Initiative and Engaged Democracy. He was granted several journalistic awards and recognitions for courage, ethics, anti-discrimination reporting and tolerance.
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