Michal Kovačič (born 1983) is a Slovak journalist and talk show host.
[3] Kovačič joined the main news team at the private Markíza television station in 2008, but took a short break from broadcasting in 2010 to undertake an internship in the United States on CNN.
[6] Following the 2023 Slovak parliamentary election, the government of Slovakia was reported to pressure Markíza to align its narratives with government's point of view through threatening of redirecting advertisement funds from governmental institutions and public-owned firms to other broadcasters.
Wanting to resist these pressures, the journalists started to unite with Kovačič as the head of the new trade union organization.
[7] When the government of Slovakia started to boycott Na Telo in April 2024,[8] Kovačič broadcast a short unauthorized speech at the end of Na Telo, accusing the Markíza management for being complicit in the government's agenda of censoring the political content in the media, mirroring the approach of Viktor Orbán in Hungary.