Spanish journalist, she was the first female director of El País, where she has worked for more than four decades. She has been vice president of the Spanish section of Reporters Without Borders and a member of the advisory board of the Fundación del Español Urgente (Fundéu BBVA).

Together with her colleagues, she exclusively published the draft of the 1978 Spanish Constitution that was being written behind closed doors, which later became the book Crónica Secreta de la Constitución (1989). For the newspaper El País, she was also deputy editor, reader’s advocate, and correspondent in various parts of the world such as Brussels, Paris, London, Buenos Aires, and New York. She has published the books: Los siete magníficos (1977), Del consenso al desencanto (1981) and La Unión Europea (1997).

She has received several awards such as the Salvador de Madariaga Award, the Margarita Rivière Award for journalistic rigor, and the Ortega y Gasset Award for her professional career.

Argentine journalist, writer and historian. He has been a teacher at the Gabo Foundation since 2001 and a member of its board of trustees since 2013. Born in Buenos Aires, he studied history at the University of Paris, where he went into exile in 1976. He began his career as a journalist in the newspaper Noticias in 1974, since then he has worked in print, radio, and television, excelling in the writing of chronicles.

He has translated Voltaire, Shakespeare and Quevedo, and has published more than thirty books translated into more than thirty languages. Highlights include La noche anterior (1990), La Historia (1999), A quien corresponda (2008), Los Living (2011), Comí (2013), El Hambre (2014), Echeverría (2016) and Ñamerica (2021).

He has been awarded the Herralde Award, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Rey de España Award, the Miguel Delibes National Journalism Prize, the María Moors Cabot Prize, and the Ortega y Gasset Journalism Prize for his professional career, among other.

Colombian investigative journalist. Director of the Centro Latinoamericano de Investigación Periodística and member of the governing council of the Gabo foundation. She was director of the Independent Journalism Program of the Open Society Foundations. She has been founder and director of VerdadAbierta.com, a portal specialized in the Colombian armed conflict.

Author of books such as Guerras Recicladas (Random House, 2014),an investigation on the paramilitary phenomenon in Colombia, Retratos del Poder (2002) and 5 en Humor (2007). Also noteworthy are journalistic guides and analyses such as Entre el silencio y el coraje: dos décadas de libertad de prensa en Colombia (2012).  

She has been awarded the Simón Bolívar Journalist of the Year Award twice, the Maria Moors Cabot Award, the Rey de España  Award, the Lorenzo Natali Award of the European Union for Human Rights coverage and has been a finalist for the IPYS-Tilac Award for the best Latin American investigations on three occasions.

Journalist, director and founder of elDiario.es. He was the first director of the newspaper el Público. He began working as a journalist in 1995, collaborating with newspapers such as Cinco Días and El Mundo and magazines such as Muy Interesante, Rolling Stone, GEO and Quo. He has also collaborated with La Sexta and The Washington Post.

He was appointed coordinator of the Informativos Telecinco website, was assistant director of La Voz de Almería, Cadena SER Almería and Localia Almería. He is also a former blogger and was part of the indie rock band Meteosat.

Spanish journalist. Director of the newspaper Público since 2019. President of the Platform in Defense of Freedom of Information (PDLI) between 2014 and 2023, she was part of the founding team of the newspaper 20 Minutos, of which she was deputy director. After 15 years of work, she joined El Mundo as deputy director. In 2016 she became the first Spanish-speaking woman member of the Executive Board of the International Press Institute (IPI), later serving as vice president.

Her projects for the digital transformation of newsrooms earned her awards such as iRedes. She was a jury member for the Miguel Delibes National Journalism Award and the Gabo Awards in the Innovation category. As president of the PDLI, she received the Freedom of Expression Award.

Venezuelan journalist and writer. Co-founder and general director of Efecto Cocuyo, an integral platform for independent journalism in Venezuela, from where she leads the Venezuela Migrante initiative.

Her first day as a reporter coincided with the first coup attempt against Hugo Chávez in 1992. Since then she has worked for more than 25 years for the main print media in Venezuela and today she collaborates with media such as The Washington Post in Spain. Her investigations include corruption in the kidnapping of the FARC “chancellor” Rodrigo Granda in 2005.

She is an ICFJ Knight Fellow 2024. In 2018 she won the Gabo Award for her coverage of the Venezuelan exodus, the same year Time magazine named her one of the “Guardians of Truth” in its Person of the Year edition and she won the CPJ Freedom of Expression Award. She has also been recognized with the Franco-German Human Rights Award, and the WOLA Human Rights Award, among others.

Journalist and Spanish writer specialized in international information, the Middle East, and human rights. She is a co-founder of El Diario.es. 

Her work on the Arab uprisings from Egypt in 2011, her chronicles during the invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003, and her reports from Palestine, Afghanistan, and Syria along with her coverage of the refugees stand out. As well as her investigations and reports on impunity in Mexico, and her chronicles on the socioeconomic situation in Spain. She is the author of several books such as “El hombre mojado no teme la lluvia. Voices from the Middle East” (2009).

She has been recognized with the Honoris Causa Pimentel Fonseca Award, the Lupa Award, the International Press Club Award for Best Informative Work, the Focused Journalist Award, the Journalism and Human Rights Award, the Ortega y Gasset Collective Award and the Turia Award for Best Media Contribution, among others.

Cuban writer and independent journalist. He founded the Cuban magazine El Estornudo, the first independent Cuban magazine dedicated to narrative journalism. He currently resides in Spain as an exile after his coverage of the social protests of 2021.  He is a columnist for The Washington Post. 

He wrote the book of chronicles La isla oculta (2023) and Aterrizar en el Mundo (2024). He has collaborated with The New York Times, BBC, El País, Al Jazeera, and Gatopardo, among other media. He won the International Press Freedom Award from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), the Sigma Delta Chi Award from The Society of Professional Journalists, the Inter American Press Association (IAPA), the One Young World Journalist of the Year Award, the Lyra Mckee Award for Bravery and the Michael Jacobs Scholarship from the Gabo Foundation.

American journalist and writer dedicated to migration, gender, and labor rights. She currently writes for The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Oxford American, and National Geographic.  

Author of More or Less Dead: Feminicide, Haunting, and the Ethics of Representation in Mexico (2015), and Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America’s Largest Meatpacking Company (2024). A book that in 2024, won the Lukas Work-in-Progress Award from Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. 

In 2024, she was awarded the Donald Robinson Memorial Award for Investigative Journalism for her work at Civil Eats. In 2023, she won the James Beard Award for Investigative Journalism, the same year she spent six weeks as a resident at the Yaddo Artist Retreat. In 2022, she was also a resident at Mesa Refuge, where she was a Michael Pollan Journalism Fellow, a fellow at the Logan Nonfiction Program, and a resident at Jentel Artist Residency.

Amarela Varela Huerta is a journalist with a PhD in sociology specializing in migration. Since 2008, she has worked as a research professor at the Academy of Communication and Culture at the Autonomous University of Mexico City. She is a member of the National System of Researchers in Mexico. 

She has worked as a journalist, radio and television producer in the news field in Mexico and as a foreign correspondent. She researches migration, social movements, and women’s migration from a feminist perspective. She has published the book Por el derecho a permanecer y a pertenecer, una sociología de la lucha de los migrantes (2013) and coordinated together with Alejandra Aquino and Fred Decossé a collective volume: Desafiando fronteras. Control de la movilidad y experiencias migratorias en el contexto capitalista (2013).

Journalist, philologist, and actress.  Head of SER Podcast, she has developed her professional career in RNE, Radio 3, and M80. She has participated as an actress in many of Radio Nacional’s sound fictions. She also has directed the three seasons of the series El Gran Apagón, from Podium Podcast (Prisa Radio), which currently has five million downloads. On the same platform, she has premiered the podcast Guerra 3. She is also an audio producer for Penguin Random House and works in the audiobook team.

Freelance investigative journalist and foreign correspondent from Romania. He covers human rights, conflict, and foreign affairs stories in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East from his base in Dakar. His work has been published with Lighthouse Reports, Al Jazeera English, The Telegraph, The Guardian, New Lines magazine, Foreign Policy magazine, The Associated Press, The Washington Post, El País, Der Spiegel, Le Monde, VICE World News, The New Humanitarian and other media. He investigated violent and illegal deportations, known as “pushbacks”, at the European Union’s external borders in 2022, the lack of human rights safeguards for EU externalization policies in Senegal and West Africa in 2023 and the EU funding helping North African governments dump migrants in the Sahara desert in 2024. This year he also published an investigation with Al Jazeera and porCausa exposing how an elite EU-funded unit violently repressed pro-democracy protests using vehicles sent by Spain for migration control and counter-terrorism purposes.

He has reported from Palestine, Israel, Senegal, The Gambia, Lebanon, Chad, Moldova, Serbia, Mauritania, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, among other countries. His investigations have been recognized with several international awards, including the European Press Prize Migration Journalism Award (2024), the Jan Kuciak Investigative Journalism Award (2022), the IJ4EU Impact Award (2023), the De Tegel Award (2022), and was featured on the Forbes 30 under 30 list (2023). He was a Livingston Award finalist for international reporting in the United States (2024) and was nominated for One World Media’s Freelance Journalist of the Year Award (2024) and New Voice Award (2022).

Deputy Director of El Confidencial, he previously worked as a correspondent in Washington DC for Reforma, also in Asia from Bangkok and then Beijing, Italy, and the Balkans. 

Specializing in international news, he has covered on the ground the fall of Mubarak in Egypt, the Fukushima nuclear crisis in Japan, the violent ethnic revolts in Xingjian, the uprising of the “red shirts” in Thailand, and the emergence of China as a superpower. He is the only Spanish journalist to have signed an interview with Chinese President Hu Jintao. In 2010 he was nominated for the CONCENTRA international videojournalism awards. Author of the book ¿Adónde van los chinos cuando mueren?: Vida y negocios de la comunidad china en España (2012).

Journalist specialized in research, data, and visualization. He is currently a data researcher for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). He has worked with El Confidencial, El Mundo, and El Comercio.

He participated in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Panama Papers investigation and was part of the team of Ayuda al desarrollo, a four-month journalistic project detailing the 22 billion euros disbursed by Spain in cooperation between 2007 and 2012.

Mexican journalist based in Berlin. She is part of the Latam Network of Young Journalists. She specializes in gender, migration, and environment. She currently works at Deutsche Welle (DW), in the documentary department as part of the social media team. She was the director and editor of Simplified Español, a project that was born with the purpose of explaining political and social issues in Latin America and the United States. In addition to her bachelor’s degree in journalism, she holds a master’s degree in Digital Journalism from HMKW University in Berlin.

A Syrian-Spanish journalist specializing in migration, human rights, and social inclusion. Throughout her career, she has worked as a youth advisor for the United Nations Environment Programme in the West Asia region and has been a correspondent for the Turkish public television TRT. In addition, she is one of the six advisors of UNHCR Spain of migrant or refugee origin, promoting inclusive policies and labor, educational, and professional opportunities for migrants and refugees.

Currently, she collaborates with media such as El País, El Salto Diario, and Público in Spain, as well as with Raseef22 in the Arab world. She also works on an artificial intelligence project as a quality manager in an international technology company. In 2020, she founded the platform Inspiringwomen.es, a digital space that empowers migrant and refugee women through audiovisual testimonies, data, and research.

Investigative reporter at Lighthouse Reports where she works across several newsrooms, focusing on Migration, Borders, and Food Systems. She was a lead reporter on the investigation, Reconstructing the Melilla Massacre (2022), where she reported from Morocco and Melilla. She was also a reporter on the Desert Dumps (2024) investigation, which revealed how Europe finances and is directly involved in operations in North African countries to dump tens of thousands of Black people in the desert or remote areas each year to prevent them from coming to the EU.

She is currently working on Brain Waste, a data investigation that reveals how skilled migrants are excluded from the jobs Europe most needs to fill to prevent economic decline. Her work has been published in Bloomberg, Washington Post, The Guardian, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, amongst others.

Palestinian photojournalist and artist. In art, he dedicates himself to calligraphy seeking to invent a new method of Arabic writing that can communicate with all the languages of the world. Through it, he conveys conflicts, transforming the manifestations of destruction and wars into works that convey hope, love, and survival, being a voice for the refugees. 

Winner of the World Press Photo JSM and Picture of the Year in 2024, he has published in The Times, The Wall Street Journal, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, and AFP Agency. His murals can be found in Belgium, Qatar, Sudan, Somalia, Zimbabwe, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan, and Egypt.

Spanish composer. He is a strategic design and innovation consultant. He specializes in guiding leaders of all types of organizations to achieve new successes in a responsible way, making the most of the differential capabilities of their organizations, and anticipating changes in their operational environment. During his career as a composer, he created the soundtracks for several of the video games of the Spanish studio Topo Soft.  With a master’s degree in marketing and multimedia communications, he has a long track record in communication techniques and the generation of new narratives.

Spanish-Iranian photojournalist, dedicated to exploring issues of migration, identity, and human rights. He has worked covering elections in Kenya, Rwanda, and Kosovo, as well as documenting families rebelling against China’s one-child policy. Since 2015, he has focused on the migration crisis at Europe’s borders, with a focus on the central Mediterranean route.

In 2016, Dezfuli started with his project “Passengers”. A regular contributor to De Volkskrant and Le Monde, he has also worked with The Guardian, Time, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Al Jazeera, and the BBC. He has been recognized with the World Press Photo, the Pictures of the Year International, the Sony World Photography Awards, the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize, and the Catchlight Fellowship, among others. His work has been exhibited at: the National Portrait Gallery, the Museum of Sydney, the European Arts Centre, the French Institute of Malaga, the Addis Foto Fest, and the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts.

Journalist and deputy director of La Marea magazine. A contributor to various media, he has participated in several international research projects with organizations such as porCausa, Lighthouse Reports and Changing Markets. Coordinator of the book IBEX 35: Tres década marcando la agenda política de España y de tu bolsillo (2023).

Russian journalist, writer, and professor based in Barcelona, she specializes in gender, communication, and culture. Currently, she works as a correspondent for the radio station Kommersant FM and collaborates with TV3 and RNE. 

Since 2016, she has maintained the blog Patriakhat, gori! and in 2020, she launched the podcast Patriarcado, arde! She is the author of the book History of Russian media 1989-2011: Afisha version (2011). She has also collaborated with other media such as Medusa, Wonderzine, Afisha, Cuadernos de Periodistas, Ara and La Maleta de Portbou.

Venezuelan journalist. She is the Technical Coordinator of the Latam Network of Young Journalists from Different Latitudes. Member of the Future News Worldwide 2019 program of Reuters Institute.

She specializes in Open Source Investigation (OSINT) and has collaborated with Radio Televisión Española (RTVE), M21, Cadena SER, Circuito Onda, Circuito Éxitos, Radio Sur, BBC Radio Wales, and BBC Radio 2. She has also worked as a translator for the European Journalism Observatory.

Sahrawi journalist and PhD in journalism, second vice-president of the Board of Directors of Reporters Without Borders Spain. She is currently a writer for RTVE, focusing on migrations and women’s rights, among others. 

She has worked in the international section of media such as El País, Planeta Futuro, Revista 5W, elDiario.es, La Marea, FronteraD, Prisa Radio Internacional, Radio Televisión Española, Radio Nacional de España and Radio 3. She has covered the war in Ukraine, the famine in Somalia, the migratory crisis in Melilla, Ceuta, and the Canary Islands, as well as in transit countries such as Morocco and Tunisia, and the decline of the economic and social situation in Lebanon. She directed the documentary Raíces y Clamor, (2014) and coordinated the project 30 Women Who Are Changing the World (2021).

In 2022, she became the first Sahrawi woman to earn a PhD cum laude in Journalism. She participated in the 26th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council as a representative of the International Youth and Student Movement for the United Nations (ISMUN) in 2014, in March 2019 she was one of the spokespersons of the women journalists movement. She has been awarded the Desalambre Award in the category of best chronicle or written report in 2021, the Dircom Special Award in 2022, and the Paco Rabal award for cultural journalism from the AISGE Foundation that same year.

Spanish journalist. He is dedicated to researching the intersection between technologies, capitalism, and the geopolitical context. He works as an editor at the content curation platform The Syllabus and is part of its sister institution, the Center for the Advancement of Infrastructural Imagination (CAII). He also helped found Radical Books, the cooperative that publishes Verso Libros and Manifest Llibres. 

Author of Utopías digitales, Imaginar el fin del capitalismo (2023), Despertar del sueño tecnológico: Crónica sobre la derrota de la democracia frente al capital (2019) and El TTIP y sus efectos colaterales (2015). He has collaborated with La Marea, El Salto and is active in its Basque node, Hordago.

Spanish journalist, editor, and co-founder of Libros del K.O. He worked at Agencia EFE, Condé Nast Traveler, and La Opinión de A Coruña. He has also collaborated in media such as Vanity Fair, El País, and Altaïr. 

With his chronicle Una dacha en el golfo, the author won the first edition of the Sergio González Rodríguez Anagrama Chronicle Prize. He tells in first person what it was like to live for two years in Bahrain, a country between Saudi Arabia and Iran, with many political conflicts and limited freedom of the press.

Spanish multimedia journalist based in Berlin. Specializes in politics, environment, human rights, and LGTBIQ+ issues. Currently, he leads the first and only TikTok team of the Thomson Reuter Foundation: Openly. 

He has spent the last few years digging into social media journalism on platforms like TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts, focusing on young audiences. As an international correspondent, he wrote articles, analyses, and explainers on LGTBIQ+ issues in Germany and Europe.

Journalist and political scientist. She currently directs Africa Mundi, the first digital media in Spanish, which provides current information and analysis about the African continent. She specializes in gender, equality, and public participation, and has worked in political consultancy on these issues. She is also a reporter from Morocco for elDiario.es, El Confidencial, El Español, Revista Mundo Negro, and Planeta Futuro of El País.

Argentine internationalist and communicator with a master’s degree in migration studies. She has researched the media treatment of migrants and their resistance strategies. Currently, she works at Doctors Without Borders Spain, in the Communication and Fundraising departments, as a Digital Officer, Community Manager, and Copywriter Editor. She is dedicated to the creation of digital content, the management of social networks, and the presentation of humanitarian news. She has also collaborated as a writer for media such as La Marea, Lleca, and the European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed).

Journalist. Head of Desalambre, a human rights section of elDiario.es specialized in human rights and migration. She has covered migratory movements and refugees from Morocco, South Sudan, Mexico, Honduras, Cameroon, the Central Mediterranean, and the Spanish southern border, among others. She previously worked for ElMundo.es, Expansión, Onda Cero Madrid, and Pontevedra.

British journalist, photographer, and professor specialized in politics, migration, and community stories. Founder and editor of Madrid No Frills, an independent hyperlocal media platform for the stories and images that define Madrid today. 

She works in both English and Spanish for media outlets such as El País, BBC, The Guardian, Times, Al Jazeera, elDiario.es, and more, including radio stations and channels. She is a European Press Price 2024 winner and an IJ4EU Impact Award nominee.

Digital communicator, director of Revista Salvaje, and co-founder of Libros del KO.  He specializes in covering the environment, nature, and the countryside. He has been working in communication, advertising, and media, working for 11870, soitu.es, Remo agencies, Verne de El País, and Univision. 

French journalist specializing in migration. Senior editor of the French version of Inkyfada, a Tunisian investigative media. She has been part of numerous investigations and reports, including the Pandora Papers. 

She produced the podcast Derrière les sans-papiers, il y a mon père for Inkyfada Podcast. She also wrote Les lucioles étoilées, the first episode of a series of children’s stories called Inkyds.

Hassan ElFadul is a young Sudanese comedian, technician, and podcaster. He is the founder of ‘Hassan.Talks’, a podcast that encourages discussion of current events as well as cultural topics about Sudan and his community. Also, he is co-founder of Dafouri, a sports podcast that talks mostly about soccer, tackling the Premier League, La Liga, and the Champions League. 

Through his two podcasts, he works together with local Sudanese organizations such as Fill a Heart, a youth-led organization aiming to improve the situation of many children in the country.

Senegalese investigative journalist based in Nouakchott, the capital of Mauritania. He has more than 20 years of experience covering migration issues. He is editor-in-chief of the digital media Tahalil Hebdo and a multimedia correspondent. 

Winner of the 2023 IOM Award for best investigative reporter. He is also in charge of communication for Carembenor International, an NGO based in France and present in Senegal working in the educational, health, agricultural, and youth in West Africa with aspirations to migrate. He is also a consultant in the field of migration and a member of the Loujna-Tounkaranké network, present in nine countries. He teaches at the Ecole Supérieure Professionnelle et Interdisciplinaire (ESPRI) in Nouakchott.

Journalist, director, and founder of elDiario.es. He was the first director of the newspaper el Público. He began working as a journalist in 1995, collaborating with newspapers such as Cinco Días and El Mundo and magazines such as Muy Interesante, Rolling Stone, GEO, and Quo. He has also collaborated with La Sexta and The Washington Post.

He was appointed coordinator of the Informativos Telecinco website and was assistant director of La Voz de Almería, Cadena SER Almería, and Localia Almería. He is also a former blogger and was part of the indie rock band Meteosat.

Journalist, anthropologist, and psychologist. Currently director of the independent Greek media Solomon. She specializes in migration and environment.  She was nominated for the European Press Prize 2021 and won the IJ4EU Impact Award 2022. She has been involved in several cross-border investigations and her work has been published in media across Europe. She has served on the jury for the IJ4EU Impact Award 2023 and the Evens Journalism Prize 2021.

Ioana Călinescu is an independent journalist working in cultural and social communication as a PR and communication specialist at the National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), as well as co-founder of large independent, cultural and journalistic projects with social impact: the Centre for Documentary Photography and The Museum of Abandonment.

The Museum of Abandonment is a digital and participatory forum-museum aiming to map out a culture of abandonment and offer a historical narrative of the abandonment and institutionalization of children in Romania. The Centre for Documentary Photography operates at the crossroads of journalism and art, producing in-depth visual investigations of local topics in Romania and beyond by mixing various media such as traditional documentary photography, sounds, video, and various other visuals.

Member of the ExMENAS collective, where he works to guarantee the rights of migrant children in Spain. Ismail crossed the border as a teenager and arrived in Ceuta hidden under a truck. He passed through seven shelters in both Andalusia and Madrid. After years of suffering institutional racism, today he is working to change the scenario in which he lived. His work includes projects ranging from providing training courses to resolving bureaucratic doubts. He has even traveled to the north of Morocco, where he is originally from, with the idea of developing a project to help young people living on the streets.

Venezuelan journalist, fixer, and copywriter living in Ecuador. Specialized in migration, refugee, and human rights. He is the author of the article La metamorfosis del periodismo tradicional en Venezuela (2019) and speaker of the Ted Talk ¿Migrar es nacer, morir o ambas? (2022).

He was editor in chief of Conexión Migrante, he has also collaborated with media such as Efecto Cocuyo, Diario Expreso, El Comercio group, La Hora de Ecuador, GK of Ecuador, and VICE News. He has also been a member of the Association of Venezuelan Journalists in Ecuador. 

She is currently the director of the European Press Prize. Prior to her appointment as director, she worked for five years at the organization, first as head of operations and then as head of contracts and partners. In addition to graduating with honors in law, she also holds a master’s degree in Dutch civil law. She has specialized in organizational and business development, community development, closing partnerships, and building and maintaining stakeholder relationships.

Journalist based in Berlin. Head of Social Media Strategy at Deutsche Welle Culture and Documentaries, in charge of 25 social media channels. She also works as a content creator at TikTok and Instagram, where she publishes news in English about Berlin and Germany for an international audience. She previously worked as Head of Video at Funke Mediengruppe.

Mexican internationalist, consultant, and specialist in digital media and international cooperation. Founder of Factual of which he is co-director, as well as Distintas Latitudes and the LATAM Network for young journalists.  

He is the author of Primer Estudio de Medios Digitales y Periodismo en América Latina (2016). He has given workshops and participated as a panelist in journalism congresses in Mexico, the United States, Peru, Argentina, El Salvador, and Brazil.

Director of investigative journalism at porCausa and journalist specializing in investigations, economics, and migrations. Currently, he investigates corruption networks around the borders. He also works for The New York Times and Der Spiegel. In the past, he has worked for Agencia EFE, Público, La Marea magazine, Folha de São Paulo, and CEPAL, among others. 

Bautista has worked on investigations such as Morocco’s “Un error de cálculo” de Marruecos: Guardia Civil, Interior y CNI desvelan la trastienda de la masacre de Melilla (2024) and “No entré en la Guardia Civil para esto”: hablan los agentes desplegados en la frontera de Melilla el 24J (2023), both for the anniversary of the massacre in Melilla’s border; Desert Dumps (2024) and Reconstructing the Melilla massacre (2022), coordinated by Lighthouse Reports. He coordinated ‘Borders SA: The Migration Control Industry’ (2022), shortlisted for the European Press Prize, and ‘Melilla Vice’ (2019), among others.

Peruvian journalist and editor. A noted chronicler, he specializes in covering socio-environmental conflicts. He is the author of books such as Bois, or, pétrole: Les guerres invisibles (2024), Algo nuestro sobre la tierra (2021) Guerras del Interior (2018), Eduardo Galeano, un ilegal en el paraíso (2016), 

He was deputy editor of the magazines Etiqueta Negra and Etiqueta Verde, as well as at IDL-Reporteros and editor-in-residence of Radio Ambulante. He has collaborated for The New York Times en Español, Ballena Blanca, Mundo Diners, Internazionale, Ojo Público, Convoca, Gkillcity, and Univision.  He has been awarded the Gabriel García Márquez Award in 2018, the 2016 Ortega y Gasset Award for Best Story or Investigative Journalism, the “Crecimiento Verde” National Contest Award for Environmental Journalism, organized by PAGE 2015 and created by the UN.

Mexican journalist based in Barcelona, specializing in gender, childhood, and education. Coordinator of the collaborative project Aquí Estamos – Feminicidio Infantil en México.

She is an expert in communications, marketing, audiences, and strategic communication. She currently works as a creative strategist and paid media expert at 3 Second Media and in strategic communications for Maya Gold Trading.

Spanish journalist and documentary filmmaker. Co-founder of La Poderío, a feminist magazine founded in Andalusia, and co-director of EntreFronteras, a social production company that aims to raise the voices of people around the world through its documentaries. 

She is co-director of the documentary Tívoli (2024), deputy director, and creator of the original idea for the documentary series Operation Brooklyn (2023). She is also the director of photography of the non-fiction feature film Paralelo 35º50 (2021), which was recognized with the Desalambre Award, granted by eldiario.es, and with a Special Mention at the Valencia Film and Human Rights Festival.

Argentine journalist and activist specialized in gender. She is currently a columnist for Radio Nacional and is part of the Ni Una Menos collective. At the beginning of 2023, Peker reported that she was being threatened against her life and after the arrival of Javier Milei to the presidency of Argentina, she decided to go into exile.

From 1998 to 2019 she was part of the team of La 12, the weekly supplement of the Argentine newspaper Página. During his 20-year career, she has also been part of television programs of Canal 26 and CN23. She has signed as a columnist in Anfibia Magazine, La Marea, Caras y Caretas, Veintitrés, Crítica de la Argentina and others. She has also published several books, the most recent are Sexteame: Amor y Sexo en la era de las mujeres deseantes (2020), La revolución de las hijas (2019) and Putita golosa. Por un feminismo del goce (2018).

Her work was awarded in 2015 with the 2015 Lola Mora Prize for journalistic trajectory, granted by the General Directorate of Women of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. She also won the Juana Manso Award, granted by the Municipal Institute of Women of Rosario in the category of graphic press, and was recognized in 2005 as “Outstanding Woman of the Decade”, a title granted by the Federal Institute of Public Policies of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires.

She began her career in Brussels managing a lobbying consultancy. She has been Director of Public Affairs for Weber Shandwick and has directed communications for Oxfam Spain. She was the communications director of the Madrid City Council under Carmena. Columnist for Público in the section Con M de Migraciones, is a member of the jury of the European Press Prize. Director of the New Migratory Narratives essays and co-author of the Narratives of Love.

Young Valencian journalist, specializing in international journalism. She has published articles in written media such as La Directa and Diari ARA and has had several radio experiences since she saw journalism as an engine for social change. However, she always wanted to tell stories through images and continued her training in documentary filmmaking and social journalism. She started covering mobilizations and activism and now works in the video area of El Salto Diario, a cooperative media that is committed to a radically different and independent journalism. Currently, she has an active presence in social networks reporting on issues of human rights, eco-social crisis, and climate justice.

Moroccan journalist. Awareness communication technician at SOS Racismo Madrid, where she was formerly the communications coordinator.

Spanish journalist. Since 2016 she has been the coordinator of Pikara Magazine, a pioneering Spanish digital magazine for the dissemination of feminist theory and practice. She is the co-creator of desplazados.org, a journalistic project that focuses on displacement as a virtue. She is a specialist in International Information and has a master’s degree in Globalization and Development.

Her texts have been published in El País, eldiario.es, Público, El Confidencial, Tiempo, Cambio 16, La Marea, Otramérica, ABC and other media. She has also co-authored the books Emergencia climática (2021) and Memorias Ahogadas (2019).  Her journalistic career was recognized with the Joan Gomis Award.

Independent Venezuelan journalist specializing in health and human rights, promoter of the Network of Venezuelan Women Journalists, coordinator of journalists in the Peace Builders Network of IPYS Venezuela, and consultant for ICFJ. She was part of the founding team of Efecto Cocuyo, where she covered health and other areas, and was part of the 3rd generation of the Latam network for young journalists.

Winner of the One World Media Award for Violentadas en Cuarentena (2021), the Roche Health Journalism Award for Huir Migrar Parir (2021) and the regional award of the Latin American and Caribbean Women’s Health Network (2021) for El parto robado. Finalist for the SIP Awards (2022). Twice finalist for the Gabo Prize for Ibero-American Journalism (2016 and 2018). Winner of the Inquire First Scholarship on Mental Health 2021 and the Oxfam-Gabo Foundation Scholarship for Migration Journalism 2019. She has collaborated in international media such as The Washington Post, The New York Times in Spanish, Infobae, and Distintas Latitudes; and in Venezuelan media such as La vida de nos, Revista Clímax, Prodavinci, and Armando.info. Co-author of Días salvajes: 15 historias reales para comprender el colapso de Venezuela (2019). 

Italian journalist specialized in international news. She currently works as a reporter for elDiario.es and as a professor of reporting and writing at the UAM Journalism School for El País master’s degree. She covered the crisis in Greece for El País. From that experience she wrote the book Las cuatro estaciones de Atenas (Libros del KO). Between 2015 and 2016 she was a reporter and special envoy for El Español. Since October 2017 she has been collaborating with the program Hoy por Hoy on Cadena Ser. In 2023 she published her latest book, Rezwana: Un Expediente Europeo.

Palestinian journalist refuged in Spain. He works as a correspondent for Alaraby TV, in addition to collaborating with international media. He has also collaborated with Euro-Mid Observer for Human Rights writing and documenting about Palestine.

For his journalistic work, he has spent 36 months in Israeli prisons and 6 months in prisons of the Palestinian Authority, he has been shot six times, among which he was awarded in Turkey for taking photographs of the Israeli soldier at the exact moment he was being shot. He has also been awarded the Palestinian International Forum for Media and Communication in the competition Media Creativity Award for Palestine in 2018.

Journalist and researcher specializing in privacy, automated decision-making systems, and digital rights at the German organization AlgorithmWatch. She has coordinated the Technology section of Fundación Maldita.es for three years, from where she has addressed disinformative phenomena related to people’s digital lives and has led international research on surveillance and data protection. He has also worked for Agencia EFE in Madrid and Argentina and for elDiario.es. Currently, he also collaborates with organizations such as AlgoRace, FairTrials, and EuroMed Rights in the investigation of the use of algorithms and automated programs by administrations.

Journalist and freelance writer, born in Spain and based in the Middle East, between Egypt and Turkey, from where she has covered conflicts and events in this region and Africa such as the war in Sudan, Libya, Iraq, the Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, the Arab Spring and the migration crisis on the borders of Europe and Libya. 

She is a co-author of Sin habitación propia. Mujeres sin hogar de norte a sur (2022) and El Alma del Mundo (2012), which she published with her collective Masteson. Her reports have appeared in Spanish and international media such as Al Jazeera, Foreign Policy, Deutsche Welle, France 24, RFI, Cadena SER, La Sexta, El País, Esglobal and CNN, among others.

Salvadoran investigative journalist and writer. Editor-in-Chief of El Faro, he has coordinated the project En el Camino and is a founding member of Sala Negra, both of El Faro newspaper. He is dedicated to covering the migration phenomenon and youth violence in the Americas. 

He has been recognized with awards such as Mexico’s Fernando Benitez National Cultural Journalism Award (2008), Columbia University’s Maria Moors Cabot Award (2016), and the International Press Freedom Award (2016). He is the author of Los migrantes que no importan (2010), Los muertos y el periodista (2021) and El Niño de Hollywood (2024).

Spanish journalist, Coordinator of journalism and content of the porCausa Foundation. She specializes in Gender, Migration, and Human Rights and Collective Memories in Latin America. She has lived two years in England and five years in Guatemala, where she worked as a journalist and coordinator of social projects, mainly with indigenous community organizations. She founded and edited the magazine EntreMundos. She covers gender, migration, and territorial defense.

Spanish freelance journalist living in Senegal since 2011, collaborator of the newspaper El País for West Africa, as well as the magazine Mundo Negro and Radio y Televisión Canaria. Author of the books Cayucos (2006) and Los Invisibles de Kolda (2009) on African migrations to Spain and El río que desafía al desierto (2019), a collection of chronicles.

In 2022, he won the Boreal Prize and an Africa Mundi Award as the best correspondent in Africa. His journalistic career was recognized in 2021 with the Joan Gomis Memorial Solidarity Award. He has also won the Father Arrupe Human Rights Award 2021, the Mumes Award 2020, and the Saliou Traoré Prize for Journalism in Spanish on Africa 2019, among others.

Photographer and documentary filmmaker. He is currently represented by Panos Pictures and LAIF in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. He is a co-founder of the Romanian Center for Documentary Photography. He has also led independent documentary projects, the last one is called Living at the Edge, in which for two years he explored the chaotic way in which the outskirts of Bucharest, the capital of Romania, are gentrified.

His work has been published in Sunday Times Magazine, Business Week, The New Statesman, 6 Mois, New York Times Lens, As Magazine, Esquire, and Southern Weekly Metropolis. He has also been recognized with the First Prize for photo reportage, BalkanPhotoFest, in Bosnia, and other awards.

Venezuelan journalist, specialized on migrations and human rights. Co-founder of the Cápsula Migrante project, a platform dedicated to the Venezuelan migrant and refugee community in Peru.  

She has collaborated with international media such as Revista de México, Distintas Latitudes, Cinco8, La Vida de Nos, Seis Grados. She is the author of Siete Sellos: crónicas de un país en deconstrucción, published in Spain by Kalathos Ediciones and compiled by writer Gisela Kozak, and an ebook containing 21 profiles of young entrepreneurs who are transforming their reality and that of others in Latin America and the Caribbean. 

Venezuelan journalist specialized in migration, politics and social coverage of issues facing the Latino community in the United States. She is currently an Associate Editor at Ethnic Media Services. 

Author of the book Waking Up From the American Dream (2012), a conglomerate of chronicles of 25 years of immigration policy in the United States. She was a consulting producer for the documentary 187: The Rise of the Latino Vote (2020) for PBS, the U.S. public television network.  She received the 4th Annual Hispanic Print Media Award from the National Association of Hispanic Publications of the United States in 1992, the José Antonio Miró Quesada Award from the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) in 1997, and in 1998 she also received the Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Award for International Relations from the IAPA.

Executive Director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Middle East (UNRWA) in Spain. She is a professor, geographer, PhD in history, and expert in management and evaluation of international cooperation projects and evaluation of programs and public policies.  

She has worked as a consultant in the development and international cooperation for PriceWaterHouse and since 2001 she has worked in different non-governmental organizations as a Project Manager in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. She has also been in charge of Humanitarian and Emergency Aid projects in the Maghreb and the Middle East, focusing her main activity on the situation of Palestinian refugees

Afghan migrant, protagonist of Rezwana:Un Expediente Europeo. Survivor of a shipwreck of 300 people on the route from Turkey to Lesbos, where she lost her entire family. She is a victim of European bureaucracy and the objectification experienced by refugee minors.

Journalist with teaching and violence prevention experience. Trained in international news with a focus on the Arab World, Africa, and Latin America. Diploma in Social and Political Anthropology. Professional career in Spain, Italy, Morocco, and Argentina.  She is currently a partner and editor of Salto Diario, where she coordinates migrations and is part of the international editorial staff.  She has collaborated in media such as Eldiario.es, Pikara, Ctxt, or Catalunya Plural. She is the author of the books La Nada Fértil (2024) and Café Abismo (2024).

Journalist based in Turkey, with a journalistic career in Turkey of more than 20 years. Member of the board of directors of The Black Sea Foundation.

Opened the Turkey bureau for Associated Press Television in Istanbul in 1996, before joining Reuters News Television as a senior producer in 1998. She started in 2001 at The New York Times, where she became the paper’s first Turkish correspondent, reporting mainly on Turkey for nearly 15 years. She also contributes to The Independent, Der Spiegel and Politico.

Andalusian journalist and documentary filmmaker. He specializes in migration and border processes in the Mediterranean. He coordinates the production company EntreFronteras. He is a freelance reporter for international media such as AP and TeleSur.

He has worked on covering the refugee crisis in Libya, Tunisia, and other areas of the Mediterranean and Eastern Europe. He has covered electoral processes with a focus on migration in many European countries, the coup d’état in Turkey, the elections in Greece, Spain, France, and Portugal, as well as the protests in Palestine following Trump’s declaration of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

Greek journalist, editor-in-chief, and board member of Solomon. He devotes his work to covering migration, human rights, oversight of power, algorithms, and corruption. He has been involved in several cross-border investigations, with Lighthouse Reports and Investigate Europe, among others.

He worked as a reporter for the Greek investigative media Inside Story and as a fact-checking reporter for AFP. In addition to collaborating with media such as BBC, Balkan Insight, El Pais, Mediapart, Der Tagesspiegel, The New Humanitarian, The Guardian, and Reporters United. In 2023, he was a fellow of Algorithm Watch and in 2019 for the Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence (BFJE) by the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN). He has been a finalist for the European Press Prize in 2021 and 2023, and a recipient of the IJ4EU Impact Award in 2022.

Greek data journalist and producer, specializing in social issues, politics, medicine, and international coverage. He currently serves as Project Manager for data journalism at the Incubator for Media Education and Development. 

He has worked as a reporter and editor-in-chief for several Greek media outlets such as the Greek Public Broadcasting Company, as well as setting up the VICE Media office in Greece.  His investigation on child trafficking in Greece was shortlisted for the European Press Prize 2017 Investigative Award, he participated in the ICIJ cross-border investigation on the Paradise Paper and subsequently trained in Data Journalism at the LEDE program at Columbia Journalism School in New York, with a full scholarship from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.

Anthropologist specializing in International Cooperation and Human Rights. She has developed her career in the field of communication and the development of strategies, contents, and actions for awareness and social mobilization in third-sector organizations such as Movimiento por la Paz, focusing her work on the analysis of migration processes. She is currently the coordinator of projects and new narratives at the porCausa foundation and has been developing projects with migrant youth for more than 4 years.

Mexican journalist exiled in Germany, specializing in organized crime. She is co-founder of counter-narrative projects and co-founder of mataranadie.com, a feminist project on freedom of expression, which led to the creation of the network Compañeras en Guardia.

She was the first woman to go alone into the poppy fields, the raw material for heroin and other opiates, to report. Her coverage of the forced disappearance of the 43 students from Ayotzinapa stands out. She is part of Marchando con letras, the collective author of Ayotzinapa: La Travesía de la Tortugas (2016), and has worked as a fixer, and collaborated with media such as El Universal and Pie de Página.

Spanish freelance journalist and social photographer. She created the blog Grandes Minorías, which is published in the newspaper 20Minutos and which today she also directs and presents as a radio program on RNE 5. 

She also collaborates in the section Capaces in 20Minutos, in Alfa y Omega, and Mundo en movimiento. In 2021 she was awarded with the Best Blog of 20Blogs prize and in 2023 the 2nd Affectivo Efectivo de Janssen award.

Data journalist, based in Amersfoort, The Netherlands. Currently working for the Dutch newspaper NRC. She worked at the Dutch national broadcaster NOS. She is known for giving workshops and courses to teach data literacy, data-driven investigative journalism, and Python programming. She also reports on the subject through a weekly newsletter called dj.news.

She has given talks and training for organizations such as TEDx, the European Journalism Center, DataHarvest+, and several journalism schools.

Mexican journalist based in Barcelona, Spain. She specializes in migration and politics. Her work has been published in The Washington Post, Vice, El Universal (Mexico), and 5W. She is the content director of the International Congress of Migration Journalism. 

She has published three journalistic books with editions in English and Spanish: Dreamers: An Immigrant Generation’s Fight for Their American Dream (2013), Mexicans to the Cry of Trump (2017) and We Built the Wall (2019).

Mexican journalist, director of La Verdad, and co-founder of the Juarez Journalists Network. She specializes in covering and investigating the U.S.-Mexico border and has also covered corruption, the economy, and the social impact of violence and drug trafficking.   

She has been the only woman to serve as editorial director of El Diario de Juárez, where she worked for more than two decades. She has been awarded the 2011 Knigth International Journalism Award, the 2011 Maria Moors Cowboy Award, and the 2012 Zenger Award for Press Freedom. She has collaborated as co-author of Reflexiones sobre Periodismo, lo que dejó 2010 y lo que se viene en 2011 (2011), Tu y yo coincidimos en la noche terrible (2012), and Nuevo Periodismo Especializado en México. Medios y Violencia’ volume 6 of Insyde: Desafíos del periodismo ante el nuevo sistema penal, caso Ciudad Juárez (2015).

Colombian journalist exiled in Spain. She is part of the editorial committee of the newspaper Universo Centro. She specializes in issues related to armed conflict, mafias, drug trafficking, and human rights violations. She is the only woman to cover the rural territories of her country, where she infiltrated while drug traffickers, paramilitaries, the army, and guerrillas fought over the land.

Her work includes her chronicle La trocha (2020), on human trafficking and sexual exploitation of migrant women on the Colombian-Venezuelan border, and her chronicle Días de resistencia, noches de plomo (2021). She was a producer in Colombia for the Discovery Channel program Clandestino and field producer and researcher for El mercado de la inocencia, a documentary that won the Gold Medal at the New York Festival. She has been a field producer for National Geographic magazine, in a documentary on women in the guerrillas of the National Liberation Army (ELN), and a field producer and researcher for the documentary series Narco Wars, produced by Wall to Wall Media Limited for NatGeo. She was a researcher and field producer for Vice News Media’s Border to Border, a documentary episode on life and public order on the Colombian-Venezuelan border and winner of the New York Press Club Award in May 2022.

She received the Jury’s recognition in the chronicle category of the Simon Bolivar National Journalism Award (Colombia, 2020) and the Fund for Research and New Narratives on Drugs of the Gago Foundation, a grant with which she made the journalistic comic Corderos en la frontera (Lambs on the border) about drug trafficking on the Colombian-Venezuelan border. 

Mexican journalist specializing in human rights, co-founder of the research and journalistic innovation laboratory Quinto Elemento Lab (2016) and the Red Periodistas de a Pie (2006). She is the author of Cross-fire: Victims Trapped in the War on Drugs (2010) and has coordinated several collaborative projects such as the website #Másde72 about the massacres of migrants in Tamaulipas. Since 2018 she has directed the portal A dónde van los desaparecidos, where she promotes the training of journalists to cover these issues. 

She has collectively coordinated multi-awarded investigations such as “El país de las 2 mil fosas” and “Crisis forense”. She has received international awards such as the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Gabo Foundation, the Louis M. Lyon Award from the Niemande Harvard Foundation, and the Maria Moors Cabot Award from Columbia University; in Mexico she has received, among other awards, the Javier Valdez Cárdenas Journalism Award (2021) from Penguin Random House-Aguilar for writing this book. For her investigations on the San Fernando graves in Tamaulipas, she was spied on by the Attorney General’s Office of the Republic of Mexico in 2015 using illegal methods to trace her calls and know her location in order to establish her sources of information. That same year she was one of the targets of the Pegasus spyware purchased by the Mexican government.

Cuban journalist based in Seville. She is part of the Latam Network of Young Journalists and is currently the web editor of elTOQUE Cuba. She specializes in data journalism, interactive visualizations, and investigative journalism. Her work has been published in Progreso Semanal, Periodismo de Barrio, Postdata, Distintas Latitudes, and Connectas.