Manca Košir

Manca Košir (5 March 1948 – 2 May 2024) was a Slovenian journalist, philologist, politician, and film actress. She began her career as a film actress and a mathematics instructor. She then began to work as a journalist, while also studying journalism academically, as a professor of journalism studies and the chair of the journalism department at The University of Ljubljana. She was one of the first people in Slovenia to engage in the academic study of journalism. In 2011, she co-founded the political party Movement for Sustainable Development of Slovenia (sl), and was elected as the party's first president.

Life and career Košir studied at the School of Natural Science and Mathematics in Ljubljana (sl), graduating with a degree in mathematics and physics in 1969, initially with the intention of becoming a teacher of mathematics. When she was a first-year undergraduate student in 1967, she made her film debut in Breza (The Birch Tree). She ultimately appeared in about 30 films, largely throughout the 1960s and 1970s, including Real Pests, Sreča na vrvici (sl, Happiness on a Leash), and Ko pride lev (sl, When the lion comes).

From 1970 to 1973, Košir published regularly in the Slovenian current affairs magazine Mladina. She was the chair of the journalism department there for several years. which she had co-created with the sociologist Matjaž Hanžek (sl).

Košir died on 2 May 2024, at the age of 76.