Dr Sašo Ordanoski’s professional carrier spans over 40 years, with considerable experience in journalism, PR, and public communications both in national and international arena. An awarded journalist, he is a regular contributor to a number of local and international printed/electronic media. He was managing director and editor-in-chief of the national public broadcaster Macedonian TV and managing director of the national commercial TV Alsat-M. He founded and coached for more than a decade the weekly Forum news magazine, and worked as Macedonian founder and country editor for the London based Institute for War and Peace Reporting. For a couple of years, he worked with the World Bank in the area of external affairs. He used to be a consultant to a number of international organizations and institutions on media, communications, democracy, security and political issues, including UNDP, EU, and NATO.
Being a founder and/or board member of various domestic and international organizations dealing with regional issues on media, democracy, anticorruption and security, Dr. Ordanoski plays a prominent role in South-East European’s civil society sector. He teaches journalism, media and theory and practice of communication at the University of South-East Europe based in Macedonia, and sociology at University American College Skopje. He is frequently engaged as trainer/lecturer and consultant in the areas of democracy development, political communication, public speaking, journalism, public relation, media and NGO development.
His education covers the areas of journalism (BA), sociology (MA) and communication/political science (PhD), all at the State University “Cyril and Methodius” in Skopje, as well as several additional trainings and education home and abroad.
In the period of August-October, 2015, Dr. Ordanoski was a Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (Institute für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, IWM) in Vienna, Austria, as a winner of the Institute’s Milena Jesenská Fellowship for 2015/2016.
His last media engagement (August, 2022) was as a media director & editor-in-chief of the Media Services of printed/digital publishing house “Sloboden pecat” (Free Press) and editor of the daily “Morning Briefing” program at slobodna.tv and slobodenpecat.mk. His politikanti.mk video podcast is one of the most popular political debating contents in Macedonian language on YouTube and other platforms.
Profesionalna karijera Dr Saša Ordanoskog traje više od 40 godina, uz bogato iskustvo u novinarstvu, odnosima s javnošću i javnim komunikacijama, kako na nacionalnom, tako i na međunarodnom nivou. Kao nagrađivani novinar, redovni je saradnik brojnih domaćih i stranih štampanih i elektronskih medija. Bio je generalni direktor i glavni i odgovorni urednik nacionalnog javnog servisa Makedonske televizije, kao i generalni direktor nacionalne komercijalne televizije Alsat-M. Osnovao je i više od decenije uređivao nedeljnik Forum, a radio je i kao osnivač i urednik za Śevernu Makedoniju u Institutu za ratno i mirovno izvještavanje sa śedištem u Londonu. Nekoliko godina je radio sa Svjetskom bankom u oblasti vanjskih poslova. Bio je konsultant brojnim međunarodnim organizacijama i institucijama u oblastima medija, komunikacija, demokratije, bezbjednosti i političkih pitanja, uključujući UNDP, EU i NATO.
Kao osnivač i/ili član odbora više domaćih i međunarodnih organizacija koje se bave regionalnim pitanjima u vezi sa medijima, demokratijom, borbom protiv korupcije i bezbjednošću, Dr Ordanoski ima značajnu ulogu u civilnom sektoru jugoistočne Evrope. Predaje novinarstvo, medije i teoriju i praksu komunikacije na Univerzitetu jugoistočne Evrope sa śedištem u Makedoniji, kao i sociologiju na Univerzitetu American College Skoplje. Često je angažovan kao predavač, trener i konsultant u oblastima razvoja demokratije, političke komunikacije, javnog nastupa, novinarstva, odnosa s javnošću, razvoja medija i nevladinog sektora.
Njegovo obrazovanje obuhvata novinarstvo (dipl.), sociologiju (mag.) i komunikologiju/političke nauke (doktorat), sve na Državnom univerzitetu „Ćirilo i Metodije“ u Skoplju, kao i niz dodatnih edukacija i obuka u zemlji i inostranstvu.
U periodu avgust–oktobar 2015. godine, Dr Ordanoski je boravio kao stipendista Instituta za humanističke nauke (Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, IWM) u Beču, Austrija, kao dobitnik Milena Jesenská stipendije za 2015/2016. godinu.
Njegov posljednji medijski angažman (avgust 2022) bio je kao direktor medija i glavni i odgovorni urednik Medijskih servisa izdavačke kuće „Sloboden pečat“ i urednik dnevnog programa Jutarnji brifing na slobodna.tv i slobodenpecat.mk. Njegov video podkast politikanti.mk jedan je od najpopularnijih političkih debatnih sadržaja na makedonskom jeziku na YouTube-u i drugim platformama.
