Speakers

Elena Ledda

Independent Journalist

Feminist independent journalist from Sardinia and based in Barcelona, Spain. She is professor of Engagement Journalism at the BCN_NY Master Degree in Journalism, and a journalism project manager. She is also the Southern Europe coordinator of the Oasis Project on the sustainability of digital native independent media in Europe. She has coordinated and participated in several collaborative cross-border investigations.

Among others, between 2022 and 2023 she coordinated the cross-border investigation “The Bankers of irregular migration” (short-listed for the 2023 Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism, and honorable mention at the TRACE Prize for Investigative Reporting), funded by IJ4EU and Journalismfund Europe, for which she went undercover. During this year’s Uncovered Conference, together with freelance journalist Nikolai Atefie, she will lead the IJ4EU Workshop “How to go undercover?”.