Elena Ledda

Elena Ledda is a freelance journalist with a Foreign Languages (Spanish and Chinese) University Degree who’s been living for eleven years in Barcelona, where she moved to study the BCN_NY Master Degree in Journalism (collaboration between Universitat de Barcelona and Columbia University). She is now collaborating with both Italian and Spanish newspapers and magazines writing in English, Italian, Català and Castellano. She also teaches social journalism at the BCN_NY master degree in journalism (Universitat de Barcelona – Columbia University) and she is a member of the International Network of Journalists “with gender view” (Red Internacional de Periodistas con Visión de Género). Currently, Elena is the editor of the National Geographic Storica magazine.

Elena Ledda was selected for the 2014 European Press Prize shortlist with ‘Mafias from a Female Perspective’

Jelena Prtoric

Jelena Prtoric is a freelance journalist reporting (mostly) from southeastern Europe. She holds a Master’s degree in Journalism from Sciences Po journalism school in Paris, and has worked for various print, web and radio outlets in French, English and Croatian. Her interests include human rights, gender politics, creative technologies, and all things Soviet. She prefers in-depth reporting, and long form to breaking news stories. In 2015 she was shortlisted for the European Press Prize, in 2017 she won “The best report prize” in Croatia.

Jelena Prtoric was selected for the 2015 European Press Prize shortlist with ‘La femme est un homme comme les autres’