Jose Miguel Calatayud
Freelance journalist and writer
Berlin
I am a freelance journalist and writer based in Berlin, focusing on feature writing and investigative journalism, mainly about Europe. I am now working on a series of articles on how corporations act very strategically to achieve political influence in the EU. And until mid-2024, as a recipient of a
European Journalism Fellowship by the Free University Berlin, I will also work on a project aimed to research the decision-making processes that led to the current institutional and normative infrastructure in Europe. Earlier, I was a project director at
Arena for Journalism in Europe, and I was the co-initiator and coordinator of the cross-border project
Cities for Rent: Investigating Corporate Landlords Across Europe, which won the European Press Prize Innovation Award in 2022. Before moving to Berlin, as a journalist I was successively based in London, Nairobi, Istanbul and Barcelona. I have reported from more than 20 countries in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East; and my writing has appeared in Foreign Policy magazine, Al Jazeera, New Statesman and El País, among other media outlets. In 2017 and 2018, I researched and wrote about citizen political activism, democracy and human rights in Europe
thanks to an Open Society Fellowship. In 2012, my feature ‘
A la horca con 14 años’ (‘To the Gallows at 14’), about a child sentenced to death in South Sudan, won the Dario D’Angelo Award, given by the Marco Luchetta Foundation.
https://josemcalatayud.net/in-english
