Ali Žerdin

Slovenian daily Delo

Ali Žerdin
Ali Žerdin© daily Delo_vidic leon

Ali Žerdin has been the editor at Saturday supplement of Slovenian daily Delo since 2010. He worked as journalist and editor-in-chief at Student Radio (1985-1989), journalist and deputy editor at weekly magazine Mladina (1989-2006), editor at Saturday supplement Objektiv of daily newspaper Dnevnik (2006-2009) and editor-in-chief at daily newspaper Dnevnik (2009-2010).

He studied sociology at Faculty for Social Science in Ljubljana and holds a PhD in sociology (2012).

Žerdin is the author of numerous books: Slovenian Spring (1992), Generals Without Caps / Chronology of Committee for Human rights (1996), The Power Network (2012), France Bučar / Biography of president of Slovenian Parliament (2015), Prisoners of Networks (2018), A Years of Dangerous Closeness / What Went Wrong During Pandemic of Covid-19 in Slovenia (2021), A Year of Dangerous Mutations (2022).

Žerdin is a collector of historic newspapers and magazines. From time to time some parts of his collection are exhibited and labeled as Museum of Press.