Founder & Editor-in-Chief, The Pavlovic Today
Ksenija Pavlovic McAteer is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Pavlovic Today, a Washington-based independent news outlet covering the White House, Congress, the State Department, and global affairs. A Serbian-American journalist and member of the White House Correspondents’ Association, she is the first Serbian-American to hold credentials across the White House, State Department, and Congressional press corps, covering U.S. political leadership for more than a decade—from the final year of Barack Obama through the presidency of Joe Biden and both terms of Donald Trump.
Message from Ksenija
Corporate media dominates American journalism, while Hollywood has long sustained a strong independent film ecosystem alongside major studios. I recognized that this model was missing inside the White House, Congressional, and State Department press corps—and built The Pavlovic Today to change that.
Ksenija Pavlovic Mcateer, White House Correspondent, Founder of The Pavlovic Today
The Pavlovic Today is an independent, credentialed media institution operating inside the structures of power—without being owned by them. That position is rare.
We report from the center of decision-making, delivering insight into the political and global forces that shape markets, policy, and leadership at the highest levels.
She made international headlines after breaking the White House off-camera press ban, streaming a press briefing live on Periscope—first reported by The Washington Post—in a move widely seen as a victory for press freedom.
In 2018, she was named a Poynter Fellow in Journalism at Yale University, where she spoke on the state of the free press in America.
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.
International journalism
Pavlovic McAteer has conducted interviews with global leaders, business figures, and cultural icons including Arianna Huffington, Steve Forbes, Richard Branson, Novak Djokovic, Karlie Kloss, Marion Cotillard, Elisabeth Moss, Jim Yong Kim, Tiffany Shlain, Martin Amis, Lars von Trier, Monica Bellucci, Abel Ferrara, Adolfo Domínguez, Rade Šerbedžija, Michel Franco, Emma Suárez, Andrey Zvyagintsev, and Claudia Cardinale., among many others.
Her work has been published in The Independent, The Spectator, and The Yale Herald, and she has reported from the Balkans, London, and Madrid, serving as a special foreign correspondent for 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 & Academia
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.
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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