Raquel Villaécija

Raquel Villaécija Ruiz (born 1981 Madrid ) is a Spanish journalist and photographer. She worked as a writer for various media outlets such as El Mundo , Al Jazeera and Expansión , as a correspondent in Paris and on multiple projects related to current events in Africa .   

illaécija was ashortlisted for the 2014 Gabriel García Márquez Journalism Prize, for " Radiography of Spanish Development Cooperation," presented with Marcos García Rey and Mar Cabra ,  from El Mundo and Rey Juan Carlos University . 

 Path 
Villaécija obtained a degree in journalism from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) and completed a Master's degree in documentary photography at the EFTI International Center for Photography and Film in 2009.  She works as a freelance journalist and has published reports in El Mundo, El Confidencial , Al Jazeera , Jotdown Magazine , Descubrir el Arte, France 24, and Yo Dona .   She has worked professionally in countries such as the Central African Republic , Rwanda , the Democratic Republic of Congo , and Myanmar . She has been a correspondent in Paris for the business daily Expansión and for the newspaper El Mundo , and has also worked for Globomedia , La Sexta , El Pais, rfi, and the online publication Acuerdo . 

Villaécija is the co-author of In the "Heart of Censorship" (2011), produced in collaboration with Reporters Without Borders , which deals with the information censorship faced by citizens of countries such as Mexico , the Democratic Republic of Congo, Russia , China , and Iran .    She has worked on "X-ray of Spanish Development Aid"(2013), about the drastic decrease in Spain's development aid budget and its consequences.  She is also one of the creators of the web documentary "Fueling the War "(2015), along with Alberto Rojas, a project that exposes the business of war through data journalism analysis and techniques, using the conflicts in Congo as a case study .  

Other projects Villaécija has undertaken include designing the course Audiovisual Reports: Journalism for Digital Media (2016), together with Alberto di Lolli, and the Unidad Editorial School of Journalism.  

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Category:1981 births