Miša Molk (born 6 September 1954) is a retired Slovenian journalist and television personality. Molk is known for her long association with

RTV Slovenija Radiotelevizija Slovenija () – usually abbreviated to RTV Slovenija, RTV SLO (or simply RTV within Slovenia) – is Slovenia's national public broadcasting organization. Based in Ljubljana, it has regional broadcasting centres in Koper and Ma ...

Career

Born in

Vrhnika Vrhnika (; ;''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 120. ) is a town in Slovenia. It is the seat of the Municipality of Vrhnika. It is locat ...

, Molk graduated from the Ljubljana Faculty of Social Sciences. She is well known in Slovenia as a television presenter, producer, editor and journalist. She is also connected to the

Eurovision Song Contest The Eurovision Song Contest (), often known simply as Eurovision, is an international Music competition, song competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) among its members since 1956. Each participating broadcaster ...

and is a member of the ''Reference Group'' in the

European Broadcasting Union The European Broadcasting Union (EBU; , UER) is an alliance of Public broadcasting, public service media organisations in countries within the European Broadcasting Area (EBA) or who are member states of the Council of Europe, members of the ...

. In June 2023, Molk retired from RTV Slovenia after creative differences with the broadcaster's management.

1976–1989

*Writing for national newspapers and magazine ''RTV SLO'' *Youth Programme/weekly: presenter and author *Entertainment Programme: TV quiz about international history and culture *Eurovision Song Contest: commentator (

1986 The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. ** Spain and Portugal en ...

1987 Events January * January 1 – Bolivia reintroduces the Boliviano currency. * January 2 – Chadian–Libyan conflict – Battle of Fada: The Military of Chad, Chadian army destroys a Libyan armoured brigade. * January 3 – Afghan leader ...

and

1989 1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin W ...

), Yugoslav spokesperson (

1988 1988 was a crucial year in the early history of the Internet—it was the year of the first well-known computer virus, the Morris worm, 1988 Internet worm. The first permanent intercontinental Internet link was made between the United State ...

) *Song festivals: presenter

1984–1989

Student Center of Ljubljana University *Manager of activities of students' interests, art courses, literary meetings, public tribunes about students' life and problems, organizing sport events, etc.

1989–1996

TV Slovenia *Producer and presenter in the Entertainment Department: #''Criss-Cross'' talk show, running 15 years #''It's true'', very successful talk show about the intimate and emotional life of the celebrity guests #''Eurovision Song Contest'', commentator (

1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...

1992 1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General. * January 6 ** The Republ ...

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

), Slovene spokesperson (

1993 The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as: * International Year for the World's Indigenous People The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...

and

1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

) #Jazz and pop music festivals #Writing in newspaper the agony columns; advice about life problems #Co-producer of travel shows: about the culture, entertainment and tourism of a certain region.

1996–2004

*Producer and presenter of the talk show ''It's true'' (till June 2003) *Head of Entertainment and Sports at ''RTV SLO'' *Public Broadcaster

2004–2008

*Executive Project Manager *Ombudsman for viewers' and listeners' rights (May 2008)

Other activities

*Writing columns in national newspapers about men-women relations, prejudices, education, habits, politics etc. *Presenting and producing national events on and off screen *Anchor of interview programs on national television and magazines *Member of EBU (European Broadcasting Union) Reference Group / making rules and decisions about preparation of the Eurovision Song Contest *Member of EBU Format Group *Vice president of EBU TV Bureau Light Entertainment Experts Group / developing new Entertainment formats and co productions *Member of Board of ''RTV SLO'' *Chairman of the jury awarding the annual biggest achievements on ''RTV SLO''

Awards

Viktor six times (awarded by the Stop magazine), Kristalni globus twice (awarded by Nedeljski dnevnik magazine), Zlati ekran twice (awarded by 7D-Monitor magazine).

References

Living people 1954 births Slovenian journalists Slovenian women journalists Women television journalists Television people from Ljubljana People from Vrhnika University of Ljubljana alumni {{Europe-tv-bio-stub