Stefan Janjic

Stefan Janjić is an assistant professor at the Department of Media Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad. He graduated in Journalism as a valedictorian, after which he completed master degree in Communication Studies at the same Department. In 2021, He received his Ph.D. in Social Sciences and Humanities (Communication and Philological Studies) from the Faculty of Philosophy. His professional and research interests include discourse analysis, storytelling and fact-checking. He has been working with the Novi Sad School of Journalism since 2014 as a media literacy trainer and media analyst. Since 2018, he has been working as an editor-in-chief at FakeNews Tragač, a fact-checking website.

Stefan was the winner of the Extraordinary Award of the Senate of the University of Novi Sad for scientific work, on two occasions, and the Award for the best young researcher (social sciences) of the Faculty of Philosophy. The winner of the award “Being and Language” of Radomir Konstantinovic Foundation and the Annual Award of Excellence in Journalism, issued by Independent Journalists’ Association of Vojvodina. The winner of Sakura, Konrad Adenauer and Distinguished Humphrey scholarships, as well as NIN’s literary scholarship. He published his first novel Ništa se nije desilo („Nothing Happened”) in 2017. Stefan is an editor of KOD04 magazine and an Erasmus+ academic coordinator at the Department of Media Studies.

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