Patricia Simón

With a degree in Journalism Patricia Simón, who is also an expert in international relations, began her long career as a journalist two decades ago. Her professional activity and commitment to upholding human rights has led her to cover stories in more than twenty-five countries. She has written about issues that include the constant violation of international agreements at the borders of Ceuta and Melilla, the conflicts in Colombia and Palestine, and the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2010, she founded Periodismo Humano, a digital outlet reporting on and denouncing the unceasing violation of human rights on the global scale. She later began to work as a freelance journalist and regular contributor to La Marea, Pikara Magazine, and the radio programme Carne Cruda. She is also a lecturer in Investigative Journalism for the Communication degree at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC). She has recently published Miedo. Viaje por un mundo que se resiste a ser gobernado por el odio (Fear: Journeying in a World That Resists being Ruled by Hate, Debate 2022), a sincere, personal journalistic essay in which she reflects on the almost twenty years she has been working in the profession.