Katarina is an award-winning podcast producer, journalist, and reporter.

She has over a decade of experience in radio journalism – concentrating on interviews, reports and in-depth, long-form packages in English and Slovak. She has reported for the New York Times, contributed to CNN, BBC, cooperated on projects for ARTE and is the Slovak correspondent for ORF – FM4. Her work was published by the RTVS, the daily DennikN and the SME daily.

Katarina now focuses on producing podcasts of different formats, from interview-based ones to complex narrative podcasts and docu-series. She has been covering a wide range of topics: from the history of Cold War espionage, the Muslim community and Ukrainians becoming “new neighbours” in Slovakia, Secret roots hidden in Slovak families and history, electric mobility, Generation Z,  to the surprisingly rebellious world of knitting.

Katarina‘s podcast “New Neighbours” was shortlisted by the Slovak National Journalism Prize, the Podcast of the year award and by the Lovie Awards – placing it among 4 best podcasts in Europe in the category News and Politics. 

In 2023 – she was named finalist at the Slovak National Journalism Prize for her podcast “a Pinch of Saffron”.
In 2021 her podcast “The Secret Struggle for Cold War Dominance” won the Lovie Award for Best podcast series in Science and Education in Europe.
In 2015 Katarina became finalist at the first-ever Podcast Accelerator of WNYC studios.

Katarina enjoys taking on difficult topics and telling them through stories and other non-traditional formats. She loves talking to people, recording sounds wherever she goes and is always looking for the next-big challenge.