Diari ARA · Directo al Paladar
Health & nutrition
Public health, food policy and everyday nutrition — expert-sourced reporting on how people eat and live, from consumer stories to wellbeing features.
Social Affairs · Independent Journalist · Barcelona
Good journalism, delivered on deadline.
Europe-based reporter with an international track record, covering the Mediterranean and beyond. Two decades of newsroom and wire experience. Features, breaking news, photography and video. I file directly in English. Trained in Paris at the Sorbonne, I report on the stories where everyday life meets bigger social change — health, education, climate, cities, food, and the environment. I also train journalists in writing and AI, working with students across Spain and Latin America.
HealthEducationEnvironmentUrbanismNutritionSocial AffairsBreaking NewsGastronomy & WineTravelMultimedia
01 — Profile
Two decades of newsroom and wire-service experience, reporting for national and international audiences
I started in wire reporting and moved into features. Discover-oriented, deep when the story deserves it, and versatile across formats — that combination is what I bring to every commission.
I trained in Paris at the Sorbonne and cut my teeth in national newsrooms. Then came twelve years of wire reporting with international assignments across Europe and Africa — France, Italy, Morocco, Senegal — and interviews with actors and writers from all over the world. As a full ENG multimedia journalist I shoot my own video and photography in the field.
Today I report across the western Mediterranean for the national daily 20 Minutos, cover health, nutrition and lifestyle for Diari ARA, and write for Webedia's Directo al Paladar and Decoesfera plus The New Barcelona Post. Earlier bylines: La Razón (gastronomy and wine), La Vanguardia (travel), El Mundo and Público.
I train journalists in journalistic writing and AI, supervising final degree projects for students from Europe and Latin America. I've also served on the press teams of two big-city Mayors. For international outlets, I report on the ground across Europe and the Mediterranean, filing clean copy in English along with my own photography and video when needed.
- Also available for
- Ghostwriting · Press releases · Media training
- Based in
- Europe — Barcelona (CET)
- Reporting since
- 2002
- Languages
- Spanish & Catalan (native), English (C2), French (C1), Italian (C1)
- Style
- Agency-trained: fast, rigorous, deadline-proof · Social affairs reporter · Experienced in Google Discover and audience strategy · Data-informed (Marfeel analytics & SEO)
- Formats
- Features · Interviews · Reported essays · Service journalism · News
- Multimedia
- ENG video reporting (own camera work) · Professional photography · Audio & podcast production
- Also
- Press teams of two Mayors of Barcelona · Institutional & corporate communication experience · Group leader for Catalan-government scholarship students in England & UCLA (2003–2005)
02 — Beats
What I cover
Diari ARA
Education & family
Schools, universities, childhood and parenting, combining expert interviews with real families' stories. Backed by postgraduate training in education and coverage from the wire.
Diari ARA · ACN
Environment & sustainability
Climate, conservation and sustainable living — from citizen movements cleaning beaches and forests to the policies reshaping how Spain consumes.
20 Minutos · The New Barcelona Post
Urbanism, architecture & heritage
How Barcelona is built and rebuilt: housing, landmarks, museums and the hidden history of the city — Discover-ready pieces on places readers think they already know.
ACN · El Mundo · Público
Breaking news & social affairs
Wire-agency training: national and international coverage, special assignments in Morocco, Senegal, France and Italy, and interviews with cultural figures from all over the world. Available for fixing and breaking-news support, with ENG multimedia (own video and photography).
La Razón · La Vanguardia · Decoesfera
Gastronomy, wine & travel
The features side: fine dining and wine from the luxury angle, destination reporting across five continents, and interiors — food, wine, travel, design, and interiors, with experience ranging from luxury gastronomy to destination reporting across five continents.
03 — Selected work
One reporter, many formats
Urban Heritage · 20 Minutos
The 20th-century Barcelona landmark being compared to Paris’s Musée d’Orsay
A Discover-optimised piece on the Estació de França, a jewel of Spanish railway architecture that most visitors walk past without a second glance. Published in Spanish.
Continue reading →Travel & Consumer · Diari ARA
Budget-friendly summer holidays: the countries where prices haven’t spiked yet
Affordable destinations for the season, reported for ARA’s lifestyle pages.
Food & Environment · Directo al Paladar
The Ebro Delta's blue crab: from invasive species to star of the fish market
How an ecological threat became a prized local catch — and five restaurants where to try it.
More stories
20 Minutos · Barcelona · 2026
The Barcelona Gaudí imagined — and that never existed
Urban history feature on the architect's unbuilt visions for the city. In Spanish.
20 Minutos · Barcelona
The factory where Gaudí bought his ceramics still stands at Barcelona's gates — and can be visited
Industrial heritage feature connecting Modernisme to the workshops that supplied it. In Spanish.
20 Minutos · Valencia
The final push to save the Valencia tree that survived a war, a flood and a petrol station
Local heritage reporting on the rescue of a century-old landmark. In Spanish.
20 Minutos · Valencia
Valencia's Colón overhaul passes the halfway mark: most pavements already renewed
Urbanism on the ground: tracking one of the city's biggest street works. In Spanish.
Hule y Mantel
Garrofetes del Papa Luna: the Tortosa sweet everyone thinks comes from Peñíscola
Food heritage and tradition feature for the Spanish gastronomy magazine. In Spanish.
La Razón · Lifestyle
Chairs with a story: design icons and the history behind them
Design and interiors trend feature. In Spanish.
La Razón · Gastronomía
The drinks you'll be sipping this season
Trend-spotting drinks feature with industry voices, from the luxury side of Spain's gastronomy. In Spanish.
La Razón · Gastronomía
Juice season: why summer is its golden hour
Seasonal food-and-drink feature. In Spanish.
La Razón · Lifestyle
Spain, gallery by gallery: a tour of the country's art scene
Art and culture feature mapping Spain's gallery landscape. In Spanish.
La Vanguardia · Viajar · 2019
Five irresistible cities for chocolate lovers
International travel-and-food feature. In Spanish.
La Vanguardia · Viajar · 2019
A street-art route: Berlin, Rio de Janeiro, Los Angeles, Melbourne and Cape Town
Global urban-culture travel feature across five continents. In Spanish.
La Vanguardia · Viajar · 2018
Tennessee, a pilgrimage to America's musical mecca
Destination feature for La Vanguardia's travel supplement. In Spanish.
Agency wire · 2018
The Fez Festival opens with a mapping show spanning 20 countries
Agency cultural coverage reported from Morocco, syndicated by El Periódico. In Spanish.
Full byline archives
Published work is in Spanish and Catalan. I pitch, interview and file directly in English for international commissions.
04 — For editors
Working with me
Based in Europe, with nearly two decades of reporting experience and sources across Spain in health, education, climate, cities, food, and breaking news.
Based in Europe with two decades of sources across Spain — health, education, environment, urbanism, food and daily news.
Clean copy in English
I pitch, interview and file in English (C2), and can also work in French and Italian.
Words plus visuals
ENG-trained multimedia reporter: I can report, photograph, shoot video, and produce audio in the field.
wire-trained reliability
Twelve years in wire reporting taught me to work fast without compromising accuracy: clean quotes, verified facts, and copy filed on deadline.
Self-generated ideas
Most of my published work started as my own pitch. Expect story ideas tailored to your section, not recycled press releases.
Built for search & Discover
Advanced experience with Marfeel analytics, SEO, search, and Google Discover, with a strong understanding of how to grow readership without compromising editorial quality.
Fixing & local support
Available to support foreign correspondents and visiting crews across the Mediterranean area: sourcing, interviews, logistics, translation.
05 — Credentials
Teaching, talks & training
Teaching
- Journalism teaching — Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), the world's first online university, and Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC) — journalistic writing, specialised journalism and final degree projects.
Talks & panels
- Speaker, Comuvicat — Wine Communication Congress (Col·legi de Periodistes de Catalunya, Barcelona, 2019) — lecture on communication and wine, and round-table panellist alongside industry experts. Programme →
- Jury member, World Cheese Awards 2022 (Switzerland) — judging at the world's biggest cheese competition.
- Guest taster at wine tastings hosted by Spanish wineries.
- Speaker, VII Congress of the Catalan Council for Vocational Training — organised under the Catalan Government's Department of Education (World Trade Center, Barcelona, 2009) — panel on education and journalism. Programme →
Education
- Degree in Journalism — Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Erasmus, Université Sorbonne, Paris)
- Postgraduate Diploma in Digital Journalism — UOC / El Periódico
- Degree in Geography and History — UNED
- Master's in Teacher Training (Geography & History) — UNED
06 — Toolkit
Tech skills
AI & automation
AI applied to journalismClaudeChatGPTGeminiDALL·ESoraMaken8nZapier
CMS & publishing
WordPressElementorBricks BuilderHTML (working knowledge)Marfeel analytics (advanced)SEO (advanced)Google Discover optimisationHostingerGoogle WorkspaceInDesignCanva
Photo & image
Professional photographyPhotoshopGIMPStock & image libraries
Video & audio
ENG video reportingFinal CutAvidCapCutVeedAudacityPodcast production
Audience, social & ads
Social media managementInstagram · Facebook · TikTok · XKPI & analyticsMetricoolHootsuiteMeta AdsGoogle AdsMailchimp
Communications
Institutional & corporate communicationPress kitsPress releasesMedia relations
07 — In the field
On assignment
Need a freelance reporter? Let's talk.
Available for features, breaking news, reporting assignments, and one-off commissions. I respond to editor inquiries within one working day.
natalia.cblanquer@gmail.com