Johana Kotišová

Dr. Johana Kotišová is Assistant Professor in Documentary and Journalism at the University of Amsterdam. She has a background in journalism, social anthropology, and sociology. Johana’s research interests include crisis and conflict reporting, media professionals’ safety, emotional labour, and mental well-being. She authored Crisis Reporters, Emotions, and Technology: An Ethnography (Palgrave Macmillan), a monograph on European crisis reporters’ emotions, professional ideology, and cynicism; her work has also been published in journals such as Journalism, Digital Journalism, International Journal of Press/Politics, Journalism Studies, and European Journal of Communication. She is also the reviews editor of Media, War and Conflict. Besides her academic work, Johana occasionally writes journalistic stories and pursues training in nature therapy.