Ksenija Pavlovic McAteer is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Pavlovic Today, a Washington-based independent news outlet covering U.S. foreign policy and power. A Serbian-American journalist, she reports from inside the White House and global diplomatic circles with an unfiltered editorial voice. Her work bridges the domestic and the international, anchoring global insight in American journalism.
Ksenija Pavlovic McAteer is not just covering history—she is shaping the future of independent journalism. As the founder of The Pavlovic Today, she has redefined what it means to be breaking the glass ceiling and reporting from the most exclusive corridors of power, delivering unfiltered, high-impact reporting from the White House, State Department, and Capitol Hill.
A political scientist, author, and independent White House Correspondent, Pavlovic McAteer has made history as the first Serbian-American to hold press credentials inside the U.S. government’s most powerful institutions. Her reporting is bold, agenda-setting, and uncompromising, cutting through the noise to bring readers the story behind the headlines.
Ksenija Pavlovic McAteer has built The Pavlovic Today from the ground up, filling a critical gap in the Washington press corps for independent, agenda-free reporting.
At a time when corporate media dominates the landscape and independent perspectives are scarce inside the White House press corps, Pavlovic McAteer stepped up. She recognized the urgent need for a critical, independent perspective on underreported issues and stories that demand a second look. Her unwavering commitment to journalistic integrity has not only set her apart but also earned her international recognition.
In a defining moment, Pavlovic McAteer made international headlines when she defied the White House’s off-camera ban, streaming the press briefing live via Periscope, an act that was hailed as a victory for press freedom and celebrated by the American public.
Her impact extends beyond daily reporting. In 2018, she was awarded a Poynter Fellowship in Journalism for her talk at Yale University,—a reflection of her thought leadership in the fight for press freedom and transparency.
With The Pavlovic Today, Ksenija Pavlovic McAteer continues to push the boundaries of independent journalism, ensuring that critical stories are told, power is held accountable, and readers receive the unfiltered news—without fear or favor.
She has been featured in The Washington Post, Huffington Post, The Hill, CBC, Grazia, The Independent, The Yale Globalist, Lisa Wexler Show, She Files, among several other internationally acclaimed media.
Pavlovic McAteer frequently provides on-air political commentary for Talk Radio, BBC and Sky News in the UK.
Message from Ksenija
I ventured into The Pavlovic Today upon realizing that the forum on domestic and global politics run by people who are actually experts in their fields was missing. I also wanted, at the time, to give a voice to young people and to my students at Yale University.
Youth are a very important part of the future of this country and they have strong opinions and fresh ideas about the political leadership and the role the US should play in the world. These young people deeply care about issues, they are full of ideals and I wanted to give them an equal role in public discourse.
Corporate media dominates the US media landscape and while in Hollywood you have the independent film scene that is equally important as the big productions, that trend is missing in journalism. I realized that there was no indie media in the White House and State Department press corps. That’s where The Pavlovic Today comes in.
Ksenija Pavlovic Mcateer, White House Correspondent, Founder of The Pavlovic Today
International journalism
Pavlovic conducted interviews with celebrities and global leaders such as Arianna Huffington, Steve Forbes, Sir Richard Branson, Novak Djokovic, Karlie Kloss, Marion Cotillard, Elisabeth Moss, President of the World Bank Jim Yong Kim, Tiffany Shlain, Martin Amis, Lars Von Trier, Monica Bellucci, Abel Ferrara, Adolfo Dominguez, Rade Serbedzija, Michel Franco, Ema Suarez, Andrey Zvyagintsev, Claudia Cardinale, among many others.
In her international journalism career, she has provided political commentary for BBC Newsnight, Sky TV, DW, among others.
Pavlovic work has been published in The Independent, Spectator Magazine, The Yale Herald, and she reported from the Balkans, London, and Madrid, serving as a Special Foreign Correspondent for the leading national outlets in the Balkans.
Growing up in a dictatorship, Pavlovic became aware early on of what it means to be limited in freedom of expression, with no movement in travel across borders. After the fall of Milosevic, she conducted a series of exclusive interviews with the members of the first democratically-elected Serbian government.
Global advocacy
Pavlovic served as a Managing Editor of the Novak Djokovic Foundation, a partner of the World Bank, where she assisted tennis great Novak Djokovic’s calls for global action in ending inequality in Early Childhood Education.
Academia
Ksenija Pavlovic has teaching experience in International Affairs, Politics, and Security from Yale University at both undergraduate and graduate levels. She served as a Head Writing Fellow at the Yale Graduate Writing Center as well as the fellow of the prestigious Research and Travel Award in Grand Strategy from International Security Studies at Yale University, and the Roger Hertog fellowship in Religious Violence at Columbia University.
As a Teaching Fellow at Yale University, she taught “The Hero in the Ancient Near East” and a graduate course about American Christianity at the Yale Divinity School. Pavlovic also assisted the production of an online version of Ian Shapiro’s Moral Foundations of Politics course at Yale, which is now available on Coursera.
Pavlovic holds an M.Sc. in European Politics from the London School of Economics, an M.A. in American Politics, and a B.A. in Journalism and Communication from the University of Belgrade. She also studied at a doctoral level at the University Complutense in Madrid and Yale University. She speaks English, Spanish, Serbian, and Croatian.
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