Abit Hoxha is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Nordic and Media Studies, University of Agder (UiA) in Norway. He is UiA project manager for the EU Horizon Europe project ReMeD (Resilient Media for Democracy in the Digital Age) and holds leadership roles within UiA's Centre for Digital Transformation (CeDiT). He is also a member of Kosovo's Independent Media Commission (KPM) and a certified MAXQDA trainer.

His research reconstructs how conflicts are reported, tracing the structural influences, from censorship and editing routines to a journalist's own safety, that shape how war and a troubled past are told. The work spans regions undergoing difficult political transitions, with the Western Balkans, the Middle East and parts of Eastern Africa as recurring cases.

Before academia, Abit advised international organisations including UNDP, the World Bank and UN Women on communication and institutional reform in the Western Balkans. He has also spent years training journalists on sensitive and conflict reporting, which keeps the research close to the newsroom it studies.

He completed his doctoral studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) of Munich, where he reconstructed how news about conflict comes into being. He holds an MSc from the Durham Global Security Institute, an MA in Journalism from the Kosovo Institute of Journalism and Communication, and a BA in Political Science from the University of Prishtina.