Marko Milosavljevič is a Professor, Ph.D., at the Section of Journalism at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
He is the Head of the Department of Communication at the Faculty of Social Sciences (2021-).
He was the Head of the Section of Journalism at the Faculty of Social Sciences (2008-2012)
He was the chair of Communications Law and Policy section of European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) (2018-2021)
He was a member of the Core Experts Group for Media and Culture (EENCA), advising European Commission on culture and media (2016-2020).
He was a member of the Committee of Experts on Media Resilience and Sustainability (MSI-RES) at the Council of Europe (2022-), in charge of preparing the Guidelines for Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence in Media, and for Recommendations for Media Resilience and Sustainability.
He was a Vice-Chair of the Committee of Experts on Media Environment and Reform (MSI-REF) at the Council of Europe(2020-2022).
He is a member of National Strategic Council fort he Prevention of Hate Speech, formed by the Government of Republic of Slovenia (2024-).
He is a partner's leader and work package manager of Horizon2020 project DIACOMET on digital regulation, AI, and selfregulation.
He was a partner's leader at the consortium for European Commission's research on media ownership, EurOMo.
He was a partner's leader and work package manager at Horizon2020 project EMBEDDIA, researching AI in the media and newsrooms.
He is a member of Advisory Board for an EU-funded AI project EMMA - Embeddings-based techniques for Media Monitoring Applications.
He is a member of the Ethics Committee of Slovenian Advertising Chamber.
He is the author of the Chapter on Artificial Intelligence in the Draft Mass Media Act, proposed by Ministry of Culture of Republic of Slovenia (2023).
He was the keynote speaker at the Ministers’ Meeting at the Council of Europe in February 2024.
He spoke at the conferences and as keynote speaker at conferences at MIT Boston, National Press Club in Washington D.C., Ryerson University Toronto, St. Johns University New York, Faculty of Law University of Amsterdam, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, London School of Economics, Central European University Budapest, Munich LMU University, Complutense Madrid, Lusofona Lisbon, Lund University, at conferences by European Commission, meetings of European Parliament, consultations of United Nations, and spoke at conferences by UNESCO, ECREA, IAMCR, ICA, the Council Of Europe, Meta, and others.
Lately his reseahrch is focused on the issues of media, platforms and AI policy, media funding, regulation, political economy of digital media and journalism.
Since 2016, he is head of the Media Pluralism Monitor project with European University Institute Florence for Slovenia. The project is the key project regarding media by the European Commission and is the basis for The Rule of Law reports by the Commission, published each year.
He is a member of the editorial board of European Journal of Communication and Media Research / Medijska istraživanja.
He was a member of different committees and boards for international media grants and awards including Thomson Foundation, Zync Network, Internews, and Prague Civil Society.
He conducted research for Hans Bredow Institute Hamburg, European Journalism Centre Maastricht, European Public Regulatory Authorities (EPRA), Donau-Universitat am Krems, Media Centre Sarajevo, Open Society Institute London, Serbian Ministry for Higher Education, Serbian NGO Crrta, and others.
He has worked on national, regional and comparative research on a number of issues regarding media and jouranlism regulation and ethics, including public broadcasting, artificial intelligence, digital transition, digital business models, OTT economic potential in Central Europe, development of television services, ownership and transparency of media, including pluralism indicators.
He was an evaluator of South-Eastern European Network for Professionalisation of Media (SEENPM) for Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
He was a chairman of the Expert Commission for Pluralisation of Media at Slovenian Ministry of Culture (2009-2010), a member of Experts’ group for new Mass Media Act (2009 and 2018) and Public Broadcasting Act (2009) at Slovenian Ministry of Culture.
He was interviewed and quoted in publications such as The New York Times, Financial Times, Reuters, CNN, Al Jazeera English, Euronews, Le Monde, Liberation, La Croix, Radio France, Deutsche Welle, ARD, ZDF, Neue Zuricher Zeiutng, Der Standard, Falter, Politico, Euractiv, Bloomberg, L'Espresso, Balkan Insight, Polish digital Višegrad Insight, Czech daily Britske Listy, Swedish public radio, Swedish commercial television TV4, Swedish daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter, Dutch newspaper de Volkkrant, and others.
He was a member of National Committee for Information Society (2010).
His articles and op-eds were published in Der Standard (Vienna), Liberation (Paris), Paper (New York), Beta Agency (Belgrade) and others.
He was a visiting professor and guest lecturer at conducting courses at University of Dubrovnik (2008-2011), University of Novi Sad (2012-2014), and University of Belgrade (2019), and at postgraduate international programme at Media Plan (Sarajevo, 2001-2004).
He published a few hundred journalistic articles from 1992 until 2010 in largest Slovenian daily newspaper Delo, at weekly magazine Mladina, daily newspaper Republika, bi-weekly cultural magazine Razgledi, and wokred as Slovenian correspondent for international press agency Inter Press Service.